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Names were engraved in 1862 under the auspices of the French Archaeological Society, on the wall of the nave of the Norman church (11th century) of Dives-sur-Mer. Four hundred seventy-five names are listed, based mainly on names contained in the Domesday Book. The names are therefore merely those of Normans holding land in England in 1086, many ...
William Peverel the Elder is the son of Randulph Peverel of his immediate family, only the name of a brother, Robert, is known. [1]The name Peverel is an Anglo-Norman variant form of the Old French surname Pevrel, Peuvrel diminutive form in -el of Pevrier, Peuvrier meaning "pepper or spice seller".
It is a well-stirred mix of Old English, Middle English and Norman French, with some Norse and Celt, in which it is English that dominates. To see it in context, Norman French was the language of power and rank until Henry IV made English the tongue of kings at the end of the fourteenth century when most surnames already existed." [2]
The early names of all of the principal Crawford families are all Norman, however some scholars have asserted an Anglo-Danish ancestry. [2] There is a tradition that Reginald, who was a son of the Earl of Richmond was one of the Norman knights who were established by David I of Scotland . [ 2 ]
Norman Spencer Knight (30 March 1914 – 30 May 2009) was an English first-class cricketer and colonial administrator. Knight was born at Eltham in March 1914. He began his early education in Eastbourne at St Andrew's Prep , from which he gained a scholarship to Uppingham School . [ 1 ]
Other Norman aristocrats with English wives following the conquest include William Pece, Richard Juvenis and Odo, a Norman knight. [1] Eventually, even this distinction largely disappeared in the course of the Hundred Years War (1337–1453), and by the 14th century Normans identified themselves as English, having been fully assimilated into ...
In Ireland, Prendergast is regarded as a Hiberno-Norman name and is usually derived from a 12th-century Cambro-Norman knight, Maurice de Prendergast, who was born in Pembrokeshire and came to Ireland with the Earl of Pembroke, Richard "Strongbow" de Clare.