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6 unusual facts about List of Latinised names


Bere Ferrers

Features of interest include the Norman font, an unusual altar stone, benches having benchends carved with traceried arches, and an early medieval monument to a knight and lady (probably of the Ferrers family, Latinised as Ferrariis).

Carl Einstein

Originally given the standard German spelling of his first name as "Karl" at birth, he adopted the Latinized spelling "Carl" in the 1900s.

Dauntsey

The family which took its name from the manor of Dauntsey is said by Macnamara, op.cit, originally to have been called "Oldstock", which he deduced from its Latinised name Vetus Ceppus in early charters.

House of de Burgh

The House of de Burgh (Latinised to de Burca or de Burgo) was an ancient Anglo-Norman family.

Ilchester Nunnery

Ilchester Nunnery, in Ilchester, Somerset, England, was founded around 1217-1220 as the "White Hall Hospital of the Holy Trinity", (Latin: Alba Aula, French: Blanche Halle/Blanchesale) after the gift of a house and other property by William "The Dane" of Sock Dennis manor, Ilchester (Norman-French: Le Deneis etc., Latinised to Dacus (the adjectival form of Dacia being mediaeval Latin for Denmark) modernised to "Dennis").

Le Neubourg

The name was Latinised to de Novo Burgo, meaning "from the new borough/town".


Earl of Albemarle

The word Albemarle is the Latinised form of the French county of Aumale in Normandy (Latin: Alba Marla meaning "White Marl", marl being a type of fertile soil), other forms being Aubemarle and Aumerle.


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