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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]
Pages in category "Norman-language surnames" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. ... This page was last edited on 21 July 2021, ...
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Anglo-Norman families (45 C, 46 ... (6 C, 1 P) Surnames of Norman origin (1 C, 109 P) Pages in category "Norman families" ... This page was last edited on 23 October ...
Fitzwilliam (or FitzWilliam), lit. "(bastard) Son of William", is derived from the Anglo-Norman prefix Fitz (pronounced "fits") often used in patronymic surnames of Anglo-Norman origin; that is to say originating in the 11th century (the word is a Norman French noun literally meaning "Son of", from the Latin filius (for 'son'), plus genitive case of the father's forename); and from William, lit.
These were Anglo-Norman names which had become hereditary in England before arriving in Scotland (for example, the contemporary surnames de Brus, de Umfraville, and Ridel). During the reigns of kings David I, Malcolm IV and William the Lion , some inhabitants of Scottish towns were English and Flemish settlers, who bore English and continental ...
The Longs in Ireland got their names from a number of origins. Some are of English, Scottish and Norman descent. The Norman de Long and le Lung arrived in the 11th century with the Anglo-Norman conquest in 1066 AD and established in numerous locations. A number of Irish Gaelic septs of O