ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 3382 http://www.s-gabriel.org/3382 ************************************ 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 , maybe derived from the French . You also ask about an appropriate byname for the unmarried daughter of a man named who is from the town that today we call St. Paul de Vence. This is what we have found. As you observed, the name is found in the 1292 Paris census, as are the feminine names and . [1] In the Occitan region, we have found the name , but nothing like . [2] We think it possible that a diminutive of or more likely might be found in the Occitan area. If so, it might take the form , but is more likely to take the form . [3] Around 1300, it would be most common for an unmarried woman to be literally described as her father's daughter: . [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 would be known as , but the daughter would be known as . [6] We also found the Occitan byname 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 , and are reasonably comfortable recommending or for a woman in an Occitan-speaking area in the 14th century. She might have been known as , , or ; 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 , 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; and , 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 as well as and 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 , feminine masculine , feminine [7] Arval Benicoeur, "Languedoc Names circa 1300," http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/arval/toulouse/.