Branting
Branting is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of brand (brand) and -ing (one possessed of the quality of).
Variants:
Branting [Rogers Ruding 1817 Annals of the Coinage of Britain and its Dependencies, 1st edition, 1: 272].
Brantingus [Sir Henry Ellis 1833 A General Introduction to Domesday Book 2: 52].
Brenting [Walter Birch 1883-1893 Cartularium Saxonicum 3: 369].
Brantinc [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 244].
Bræntinc [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 191].
Brantingꝰ [John Morris 1977 Domesday Book 20 (Bedfordshire): chapter 57, paragraph 3 iv].
Note:
Brantingꝰ, or Brantingus, is a Latinized form.
Stem:
Bʀᴀɴᴅ, brond = A ʙʀᴀɴᴅ, a torch [Joseph Bosworth 1838 A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language, 1st edition, page 64].
Suffix:
-ing = a suffix forming derivative masculine substantives, with the sense of ‘one belonging to’ or ‘of the kind of’, hence ‘one possessed of the quality of’ [Sir James Murray 1901 A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 1st edition, 5 (I, J, K): 282].
Usage:
A homager called Brantingꝰ held land in Bedfordshire during the reign of King Eadweard III (the Confessor): “Hoc M̃ tenuit Brantingꝰ hõ regis . E . ⁊ uende͛” (“Branting, King Edward’s man, held this manor; he could sell”) [John Morris 1977 Domesday Book 20 (Bedfordshire): chapter 57, paragraph 3 iv].
