Hunmann is an Old English masculine name, the first element deriving from either an OE word *hūn cognate with Old Norse húnn ‘bear-cub’ or one linked to the ethnic name of the Huns (Insley 2003: 376; contra von Feilitzen 1937: 295-6) and the second element being OE mann ‘person, man’.
The only entries in the PASE corpus are for Hunmann 1, a catch-all category for occurrences in DB, and Hunman 1-3, representing one or more moneyers active in Devon in the early eleventh century.
Insley 2003: J. Insley, ‘Pre-Conquest personal names’, Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde 23 (Berlin and New York, 2003), 367-96
von Feilitzen 1937: Olof von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, Nomina Germanica 3 (Uppsala: Almqvist and Wiksells, 1937)
Spellings in Domesday Book: Hunman
WD: ‘The Winton Domesday’, ed. and trans. Frank Barlow, in Winchester in the Early Middle Ages: An Edition and Discussion of the Winton Domesday, ed. Martin Biddle, Winchester Studies 1 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976), 1–141
Forms in modern scholarship:
von Feilitzen head forms: Hūnmann
Phillimore edition: Hunman
Alecto edition: Hunmann
Shire | Phil. ref. | Vill | Holder 1066 DB Spelling | Holder 1066 | Lord 1066 | Tenant-in-Chief 1086 | 1086 subtenant | Fiscal value | 1066 value | 1086 value | Holder 1066 ID conf. | Show on map |
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Buckinghamshire | 53,3 | Lavendon | Hunman | Hunmann 'of Lavendon' | Alli | Judith, countess | Roger of Olney | 2.31 | 2.00 | 1.50 | B | Map |
Total | 2.31 | 2.00 | 1.50 |
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