---- 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, LĂ©once 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
The Roman Map of Britain
http://www.romanmap.com
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