Oswyn said:
Hey, from doing a bit of studying about the Normans around the 1066 time period, and I found a few names, one of which is Bohemund, probably a deriviant of Boemund, and Oswyn, which I've decided to take up.
Are these accurate names?
Edit: I've also found Ilbert, he was a member of the de Lacy family who fought alongside William at Hastings, and built Pontefract Castle on land that William gifted them.
Bohemund appears to be a later form of
Boemund (the -h- was silent and in all probability was there just to separate the two syllables). Latin sources have
Boemundus or
Boamundus. For the 11th century,
Boemund or
Boemunt would be perfectly accurate.
As for
Oswyn, while it could be a later Anglo-Norman spelling of a valid (if unattested) Norman name akin to the Old English male name
Óswine, the likeliest scenario, depending on the dating of your source, is that it’s either the Middle English descendant of
Óswine or the Old English female name
Óswynn. If you found it in a post-Conquest English source, it probably records the names of individuals of both Norman and Anglo-Saxon heritage. None of them would be appropriate Norman names for the first half of the 11th century, although a name like
*Oswin/*Osuin or
*Ansuin would theoretically be possible as Norman adaptations of names ocurring elsewhere.
Ilbert was probably
Hilbert (see Latin forms like
Hilbertus and
Hylbertus alongside
Ilbertus), which would be a reduced form of
Hildebert. For the first half of the 11th century, I’d go with the form
Hilbert.
C_Ronin_Rico said:
So, since I don't want my (nick)name to be covered by the shame on fighting along a normant side, I wanted to ask if it was possible to turn my (nick)name into something more appropriate for the event.
A direct adaptation of your nickname into Norman would be
*Finulf. This direct adaptation thingie is what I did for the Fyrningas and the Erlingar, but if you want to pick a name that's actually attested, you could go as
Richer or
Richart, referencing the 'Rico' bit.