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Smeawine

Discussion of the name

Smeawine is a masculine OE name formed from the adjective smēah (‘sagacious, acute, subtle’) and the common second element wine (‘friend, protector, lord’) (von Feilitzen 1937: 366). Smēah was an unusual first element and Smeawine an uncommon name, the only person currently recorded in PASE being a moneyer active at Guildford (Surr.) in the period 1017–23 (Smeawine 2). The name seems to have been a little more widely used outside landed society. Examples from the end of the eleventh century and the early years of the twelfth include two witnesses of local transactions in Devon, Smeawine the priest and Smeawine of Holcombe (Pelteret 1990: nos. 107, 140), and one or more London moneyers in the period 1100–45 (EMC).

Bibliography

EMC: On-line Early Medieval Corpus of Coin Finds/Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/coins/emc

Pelteret 1990: David A. E. Pelteret, Catalogue of English Post-Conquest Vernacular Documents (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1990)      

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: Smeuuin(us)

Spellings in Exon: Smeuuynus

Forms in modern scholarship:

  von Feilitzen head forms: Smēawine

  Phillimore edition: Smewin

  Alecto edition: Smeawine

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 Somerset	Phil. ref. 21,86	Vill Standerwick	DB Spelling Smeuuin	Holder 1066 Smeawine 'of Standerwick'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger de Courseulles	1086 Subtenant Robert 'the man of Roger de Courseulles'	Fiscal Value 1.50	1066 Value 2.50	1086 Value 1.00	Confidence B	Map
Shire Somerset	Phil. ref. 21,88	Vill Farleigh Hungerford	DB Spelling Smeuuin	Holder 1066 Smeawine 'of Standerwick'	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 Roger de Courseulles	1086 Subtenant Almær 'of Fairoak'	Fiscal Value 0.50	1066 Value 1.00	1086 Value 0.50	Confidence B	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

Subtenant in 1086

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 Oxfordshire	Phil. ref. B10	Vill Oxford	DB Spelling Smeuuinus	Holder 1066 -	Lord 1066 -	Tenant-in-Chief 1086 William, king	1086 Subtenant Smeawine	Fiscal Value 0.00	1066 Value 0.00	1086 Value 0.00	Confidence -	Map
Totals								Fiscal Value	1066 Value	1086 Value

People of this name

• Smeawine 3 - Smeawine ‘of Standerwick’ (Som.), fl. 1066
• Smeawine 4 - Smeawine householder in Winchester, fl. TRE
• Smeawine 5 - Smeawine burgess of Oxford, fl. 1086