John Palmer's DB database does give Hertfordshire:
kbriggs@gold:~/DB_database> grep badon DB_Names.txt
81450 "Ansfrid of Vaubadon" "NTH" "B30" "M" "-"
393400 "Osmund of Vaubadon" "HRT" "1,13" "M" "-"
425750 "Ranulf of Vaubadon" "KEN" "5,223. 7,19" "M" "-"
425800 "Ranulf of Vaubadon's brother" "KEN" "5,223" "M" "-"
In any case these three people will have come from Vaubadon near Bayeux.
Keith
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From: The English Place-Name List [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Tom Ikins [[log in to unmask]]
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Subject: Re: Badon
---- Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Winterbottom, in his edition of Gildas (Phillimore 1978), says on page 151:
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> Badon Hill: [...] The name is normal Celtic, cf. Vaubadon, near Bayeux. Vallis Badonis in the 11th century (DB Herts. 1.13; Val Badon, Kent and Northants; and Dictionnaire Topographique du Calvados 292, in 1180).
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> Vaubadon is actually from a Germanic personal name, and I cannot find a Val Badon in Kent, Northants, or Herts. What can he have been thinking of?
Herts and Hunts confused?
Falaise Roll: Recording Prominent Companions of William Duke of ...
M. Jackson Crispin, Léonce Macary - 1994
ANSFROI de VAUBADON. The name Vaubadon, Valbadon, Vaberon or Vabadune occurs thrice in Domesday. Ansfrid de Vaubadon, apparently the head of the family, was a baron in Northamptonshire... p117
Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066-1166 By K. S. B. Keats-Rohan
p155 sub Ansfrid De Valbadon - Cf. Ranulf de Vaubadon, who occurs in Domesday Kent, and Osmund de Vaubadon, mentioned in Huntingdonshire.
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Tom Ikins
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