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Beada

Beada is a short form of an Anglo-Saxon masculine name commencing with the element beadu (war).

Variants:

Peada [Joseph Stevenson 1838 Venerabilis Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum page 205].

Pēada [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 615].

Beada [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum page 81].

Peatta [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum page 386].

Bēada [Sir Allen Mawer 1920 The Place-Names of Northumberland and Durham, page 243].

Beadda [Sir Allen Mawer, Sir Frank Stenton, & John Gover 1930 English Place-Name Society 7: 554].

Beadeca [John Gover, Sir Allen Mawer, & Sir Frank Stenton 1932 English Place-Name Society 9: 681].

B(e)adoc [John Gover, Sir Allen Mawer, & Sir Frank Stenton 1932 English Place-Name Society 9: 681].

B(e)adel(a) [Johannes Wallenberg 1934 The Place-Names of Kent, page 280].

B(e)adeca [Samuel Bayard 1935 Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature 18: 74; Keith Briggs 2021 An index to personal names in English place-names, page 50].

B(e)adda [Keith Briggs 2021 An index to personal names in English place-names, page 50].

Stem (as in):

beadu = war [Henry Sweet 1886 The Oldest English Texts, page 495].

Suffix:

— a = termination of pet names, such as Cutha for Cuthwine or Cuthwulf [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 1].

Usage:

“Quo tempore donavit præfato Peada, filio regis Pendan, eo quod esset cognatus suus, regnum Australium Merciorum, qui sunt, ut dicunt, familiarum quinque millium, discreti fluvio Treanta ab Aquilonalibus Mercis, quorum terra est familiarum septem millium. Sed idem Peada proximo vere multum nefarie peremtus est, proditione, ut dicunt, conjugis suæ, in ipso tempore festi paschalis” [Joseph Stevenson 1838 Venerabilis Bedæ Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum page 217]: “At which time he gave to the above-mentioned Peada, son to King Penda, who was his kinsman, the kingdom of the Southern Mercians, consisting, as is reported, of 5,000 families, divided by the river Trent from the Northern Mercians, whose land contained 7,000 families; but that Peada was the next spring very wickedly killed, by the treachery, as is said, of his wife, during the very time of celebrating Easter” [John Giles 1845 The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation, page 169].