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Skule
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Discussion of the name
The masculine Scandinavian name here normalized as Skule (elsewhere rendered as ON Skuli or Anglicized as Scule) was originally a byname connected with the ON verb skýla (‘to protect’). The name was widely used in Iceland from the tenth century and also occurs in Norway but only once, if that, in Denmark. In England it is known to have been used from the tenth century onwards, appearing in place-names in Durham, Yorkshire, Rutland, and East Anglia (von Feilitzen 1937: 366; Fellows Jensen 1968: 254; Insley 1994: 337–9) as well as being the name of several historical persons (Scula 1 = Skule 8; Scule 1 = Skule 1; Scule 3 = Skule 3). In the eleventh century there were moneyers called Skule at Exeter under Cnut (Scule 4 = Skule 4) and York under Cnut’s sons and Edward (Scule 5–7 = Skule 5–7).The spellings in DB include one badly garbled as Strui but identifiable as Skule on other grounds (see Skule 10).
Bibliography
Fellows Jensen 1968 = Gillian Fellows Jensen, Scandinavian Personal Names in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire (Copenhagen: I Kommission hos Akademisk Forlag, 1968)Insley 1994: John Insley, Scandinavian Personal Names in Norfolk: A Survey based on Medieval Records and Place-Names, Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi 62 (Uppsala, 1994)
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: Escul, Escula, Escule, Sclula, Scula, Scule, StruiForms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: ON Skúli, ODan Skuli, OSw Skule; Strui
Phillimore edition: Skuli, Aswulf (Notts., an error corrected in Phill. Persons); Strui
Alecto edition: Skuli; Strui
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincolnshire | 16,47 | Canwick | Strui | Skule brother of Agemund | - | Roger the Poitevin | Earnwine the priest | 2.00 | 1.50 | 2.00 | D | Map |
| Lincolnshire | 16,48 | Canwick | - | Skule brother of Agemund | - | Roger the Poitevin | - | 1.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | E | Map |
| Lincolnshire | 28,11 | Harpswell | - | Skule brother of Agemund | - | Jocelin fitzLambert | - | 0.63 | 0.11 | 0.75 | C | Map |
| Lincolnshire | 28,15 | Redbourne | Scule | Skule brother of Agemund | - | Jocelin fitzLambert | 1 man | 2.38 | 4.33 | 2.00 | C | Map |
| Lincolnshire | 4,80 | Canwick | Escule | Skule brother of Agemund | - | Odo, bishop of Bayeux | Ilbert de Lacy | 1.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 | B | Map |
| Norfolk | 19,1 | Islington | Scula | Skule son of Leofweald | - | William d'Écouis | - | 2.00 | 2.00 | 3.00 | C | Map |
| Norfolk | 21,21 | Pensthorpe | Sclula | Skule son of Leofweald | - | Reynold fitzIvo | Ranulph 'the man of Reynold fitzIvo' | 2.00 | 2.00 | 2.00 | C | Map |
| Norfolk | 24,5 | Tunstall | Escule | Skule son of Leofweald | Harold, earl | Eudo the steward | - | 1.00 | 2.00 | 3.00 | C | Map |
| Norfolk | 24,6 | Postwick | Escule | Skule son of Leofweald | - | Eudo the steward | - | 2.00 | 2.00 | 4.00 | C | Map |
| Norfolk | 24,6 | Catton | - | Skule son of Leofweald | - | Eudo the steward | - | 0.25 | 0.00 | 0.00 | C | Map |
| Norfolk | 29,2 | Massingham | Scula | Skule son of Leofweald | - | Eudo fitzSpirewic | Berold 'of Massingham' | 3.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | C | Map |
| Norfolk | 29,3 | Babingley | Scula | Skule son of Leofweald | - | Eudo fitzSpirewic | Geoffrey 'the man of Eudo fitzSpirewic' | 2.00 | 3.00 | 3.00 | C | Map |
| Norfolk | 66,106 | Forncett | Scula | Skule 'of Forncett' | Thorkil | William, king | - | 0.11 | 0.04 | 0.04 | B | Map |
| Nottinghamshire | 10,23 | Basford | Escul | Skule 'of Basford' | - | William Peverel | - | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | A | Map |
| Nottinghamshire | 10,52 | Basford | Escul | Skule 'of Basford' | - | William Peverel | - | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | A | Map |
| Nottinghamshire | 30,28 | Basford | Escul | Skule 'of Basford' | - | 1 king's thegn 'of Basford' | - | 0.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | A | Map |
| Suffolk | 4,10 | Barnham | Scula | Skule son of Leofweald | Edward, king | Hugh, earl | - | 2.00 | 1.50 | 1.50 | C | Map |
| Yorkshire | 29E1 | Anlaby | Escul | Skule 'of Anlaby' | - | Thorkil 'of Anlaby' | - | 2.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 | B | Map |
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Lord 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norfolk | 66,100 | Postwick | Escula | 2 free men | Skule | Eudo the steward | - | 0.50 | 0.25 | 0.10 | C | Map |
| Totals | ||||||||||||