ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 1888 http://www.s-gabriel.org/1888 ************************************ 12 Jan 2000 From: Alan Terlep Greetings, Here's the information we found on , which you wanted to use as a name for a man born in Antwerp in 1542. We found examples of the name from Bruges in 1506 and 1572. (1) It would almost certainly be appropriate for Antwerp as well. In your period, most people had a single byname or surname--some people had inherited family names, while others did not. In either case, you would have most likely used only one byname or surname. With minor modifications, either of your bynames would be appropriate. The particular spelling , with a capital letter in the middle of a single word, does not appear in any of the sources we found. We did find examples of spellings including , , and , all of which would be appropriate for your period. (2,3) The form is appropriate for your period, but may be more characteristic for the Low Countries. Although occupational names with are very common in French, (4) a list of hundreds of names from Bruges shows that the large majority of occupational names were recorded without . (5) So, we recommend using either , , , or as a byname or surname. Walraven van Nijmegen, Miguel Santos de Borja, Adelaide de Beaumont, Juliana de Luna, Arval Benicoeur, and Talan Gwynek contributed to this letter. We hope this has been helpful, and that we can continue to assist you. Your servant, Alan Fairfax Academy of S. Gabriel (1) de Grood, Luana. "Flemish Names from Bruges, 1400-1600." (WWW: Academy of S. Gabriel, 1996). Accessed December 21, 1999. [URL: http://www.s-gabriel.org/docs/bruges/index.html] (2) Cateline de la Mor, "Sixteenth Century Norman Names" (SCA: KWHS Proceedings, 1994; WWW: J. Mittleman, 1997) [URL:http://www.panix.com/~mittle/names/cateline/norman16.html]. (3) de Grood, passim. (4) Dauzat, Albert, _Dictionnaire Etymologique des Noms de Famille et Prenoms de France_ (Paris: Libraire Larousse, 1987), passim. (5) de Grood, passim.