#heregod

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De God die jou ziet en kent

De God die jou ziet en kent

[anglosaxonpersonalnames]

Heregod

Heregod is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of here (army) and god (god), the same elements as in Godhere.

Variants:

Heregodus [Joseph Stevenson 1841 Liber Vitæ Ecclesiæ Dunelmensis, page 16].

Hargodus [John Kemble 1848 Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici 6: 152].

Heregod [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 293].

Hærgod [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 331].

Hærgod [Herbert Grueber 1893 Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 331].

Haregod [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 331].

Hargod [Fran Colman 1991 Money Talks, page 309].

Hergodus [Keith Briggs 2021 An index to personal names in English place-names, 1st edition, page 161].

Note:

Forms ending with -us are Latinizations.

Prototheme:

army = here [Charlotte Yonge 1863 History of Christian Names, 1st edition, 2: 406].

Deuterotheme:

god = god [Ernest Weekley 1939 Jack and Jill, 1st edition, page 29].

Usage:

Haregod was the mark of moneyer at Oxford under King Eadweard III (the Confessor): (approximately) “✠HɅREGOD ON OXENEX” [Herbert Grueber 1893 A Catalogue of English Coins in the British Museum, Anglo-Saxon Series 2: 422, number 1129].