ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 3382
http://www.s-gabriel.org/3382
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08 Dec 2008
From: Julia Smith 


Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel!

You asked for assistance with a name for an Occitan woman, preferably 
around 1300, similar to <Julia>, maybe derived from the French 
<Juliote>. You also ask about an appropriate byname for the unmarried 
daughter of a man named <Gervais de Bouillon> who is from the town that 
today we call St. Paul de Vence.  This is what we have found.

As you observed, the name <Juliote> is found in the 1292 Paris census, 
as are the feminine names <Juliane> and <Julienne>.  [1]  In the Occitan 
region, we have found the name <Juliana>, but nothing like <Juliote>. 
[2]  We think it possible that a diminutive of <Julia> or more likely 
<Juliana> might be found in the Occitan area.  If so, it might take the 
form <Juliota>, but is more likely to take the form <Julieta>. [3]

Around 1300, it would be most common for an unmarried woman to be 
literally described as her father's daughter: <filha de Girvais de 
Bolho>. [4], [5]  Women often also used patronymic bynames (bynames 
derived from the given name of their father), but they were used in a 
feminized form, so that the son of <Girvais> would be known as <John 
Girvais>, but the daughter would be known as <Juliota Girvaisa>. [6]   
We also found the Occitan byname <de Sancto Paulo> in 1315; this is the 
most likely form for a byname referring to a woman from a town like St. 
Paul de Vence. [7]

In summary: we can strongly recommend the name <Juliana>, and are 
reasonably comfortable recommending <Julieta> or <Juliota> for a woman 
in an Occitan-speaking area in the 14th century.  She might have been 
known as <Juliana filha de Girvais de Bolho>, <Juliota Girvaisa>, or 
<Julieta de Sancto Paulo>; any of these given names is suitable with any 
of these bynames.

We hope this letter has been useful to you. If you have any questions or 
would like further information, please don't hesitate to write to us 
again. I was assisted in researching and writing this report by Talan 
Gwynek, Juetta Copin, Aryanhwy merch Catmael, Leonor Ruiz de Lison, 
Bronwyn ferch Gwyn ap Rhys, and Ursula Georges.

For the Academy,

Juliana de Luna
8 December 2008

[1] Colm Dubh, "An Index to the Given Names in the 1292 Census of Paris" 
1996, 2005, http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/paris.html

[2] Sara Uckelman, Occitan names from Saint Flour, France, 1380-1385, 
http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/saintflour.html.

[3] We have found no examples of either form, but <Penota>, a similar 
diminutive, dates to 1366/7 (in Sara Uckelman, Names from Pe/rigueux, 
1339-1340, http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/perigueux.html).  
Diminutives formed with <-eta> are  more common; <Marieta> and 
<Johaneta>, for example, are dated to 1425 in Talan Gwynek, "Late Period 
Feminine Names from the South of France" 
(http://heraldry.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/names/latefrenchfem.html).

[4] One can see versions of this pattern in Sara Uckelman, Names from 
Pe/rigueux, 1339-1340, 
http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/french/perigueux.html).

[5] While Ramon lo Montalbes ("French/Occitan names from the XII and 
XIII Century" http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/ramon/occitan/), gives 
<Gervais> as well as <Girvais> and <Girvaitz> as Occitan forms, we 
believe the latter more typical than the former.

[6] You can see examples of this in Juliana de Luna, "Occitan 
Townspeople in the 14th Century" 
(http://heraldry.sca.org/laurel/names/occitan/occitan.html).  Paired 
bynames include:
masculine <Guirlart>, feminine <Guirlarda>
masculine <Robert>, feminine <Robberta>

[7] Arval Benicoeur, "Languedoc Names circa 1300," 
http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/toulouse/.