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Stanmær

Discussion of the name

Stanmær is an Old English masculine name comprising the elements stān ‘stone, rock, gem’ and mære ‘famous, great’. As von Feilitzen (1937: 371-2) in part observes, OE dithematic names with stān as first rather than second element are fairly rare, occur only after the early eleventh century and tend to have an East Anglian distribution, which suggests that they developed under the influence of names in Old Norse Steinn- or, more probably given the distribution, Old Danish Sten-. Note that an ON *Steinmarr is not certainly on record and therefore that the DB forms represent a genuine formation in OE rather than simply an anglicized borrowing of a Scandinavian name, although it is possible that the cognate and rare Continental Germanic name Ste(i)nmar is represented in the FBB forms (see Stanmær 5, below).

Bibliography

von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)

Forms of the name

Spellings in Domesday Book: Stanmar(us)

Spellings in FBB: Stanmer

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Stānmær

  Phillimore edition: Stanmer

  Alecto edition: Stanmær

Distribution map of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

List of property and lordships associated with this name in DB

Holder 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,76	Vill Walton	DB Spelling Stanmarus	Holder 1066 Stanmær 'of Kirton'	Lord 1066 Northmann the sheriff	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant Northmann the sheriff	Fiscal Value 0.02	1066 Value 0.03	1086 Value 0.03	Confidence C	Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 7,87	Vill Kirton	DB Spelling Stanmarus	Holder 1066 Stanmær 'of Kirton'	Lord 1066 Northmann the sheriff	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger Bigod	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.06	1066 Value 0.05	1086 Value 0.05	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Lord 2 1066

Shire	Phil. ref.	Vill	DB Spelling	Holder 1066	Lord 1066	Tenant-in-Chief 1086	1086 Subtenant	Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value	Conf.	Show on Map
Shire Suffolk	Phil. ref. 39,5	Vill Hemley	DB Spelling Stanmar	Holder 1066 Beorhtmær son of Cwengifu	Lord 1066 Beorhtmær son of Cwengifu	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Ranulph brother of Ilger	1086 Subtenant William de Bosc	Fiscal Value 0.08	1066 Value 0.15	1086 Value 0.15	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Stanmær 4 - Stanmær ‘of Kirton’ (Suff.), fl. 1066
• Stanmær 5 - Stanmær son of Crispin (Suff.), fl. 1086