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Tova-Hild

Gender: Female

Author: DWP

Editorial Status: 4 of 5

Discussion of the name

Tova-Hild is an Old Danish feminine compound signifying ‘Hild daughter of Tovi’; an anglicized Old Danish head-form is used here because of the Essex and East Anglian contexts of the DB instances, although von Feilitzen (1937: 384) preferred an Old Norse form *Tófa-Hildr.

There are no pre-Domesday occurrences of this name in the PASE corpus.

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: Touillda, Touilt

Forms in modern scholarship:

von Feilitzen head forms: Tófa-Hildr

Phillimore edition: Tovild

Alecto edition: Tofa-Hildr

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 Essex	Phil. ref. 90,72	Vill Fordham	DB Spelling Touillda	Holder 1066 Tova-Hild 'of Fordham'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Richard fitzGilbert	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.03	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.03	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Tenant-in-Chief 1086 demesne estates (no subtenants)

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. 74,13	Vill Claydon	DB Spelling Touilt	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Tova-Hild, free man	1086 Subtenant -	Fiscal Value 0.04	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.07	Confidence C	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value