#hereweald

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Hereweald

Gender: Male

Pronunciation: HER-e-wahld

Origin: Old English

Meaning: Army ruler

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Hereweald

Hereweald is an Anglo-Saxon masculine name composed of here (army) and weald (power), cognate with German Herwald, Norse Haraldr, and Icelandic Haraldur. The same elements are present in Wealdhere.

Variants:

Herewald [Arthur Napier & William Stevenson 1895 The Crawford collection of early charters and documents now in the Bodleian library, page 41].

Hereweald [William Searle 1897 Onomasticon Anglo-Saxonicum, page 294].

Hereƿeald [Oswin Kinsey 2016 English Compound Names, 2nd edition, page 69].

Prototheme:

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

Deuterotheme:

weald = power [Olof von Feilitzen 1937 The Pre-conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book, page 410].

Usage:

Hereweald was the name of a Bishop of Sherborne [William Searle 1899 Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles, page 76]. He witnessed a charter issued by King Æthelbeald of Mercia in 757: “✠ manus hereuualdi episc̃” [John Kemble 1839 Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici 1: 122 (number 100)].