feudal+tenant

  • 81Knight — Orig. a boy or young man; the military servant of someone of high rank; a feudal tenant holding land for which he owed military service; a man raised by king or queen to an honourable, high rank; in courtly romance and lyric sometimes used for an …

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  • 82Alabastar — This interesting and unusual name, introduced after the 1066 Conquest by William 1, is the result of the Anglicization of the Norman, Old French, word arblaster or arbalestier , meaning a crossbowman. The derivation is from the Latin… …

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  • 83Alabaster — This interesting and unusual name, introduced after the 1066 Conquest by William 1, is the result of the Anglicization of the Norman, Old French, word arblaster or arbalestier , meaning a crossbowman. The derivation is from the Latin… …

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  • 84Albisser — This interesting and unusual name, introduced after the 1066 Conquest by William 1, is the result of the Anglicization of the Norman, Old French, word arblaster or arbalestier , meaning a crossbowman. The derivation is from the Latin… …

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  • 85Arblaster — This interesting and unusual name, introduced after the 1066 Conquest by William 1, is the result of the Anglicization of the Norman, Old French, word arblaster or arbalestier , meaning a crossbowman. The derivation is from the Latin… …

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  • 86Hebner — This unusual name is of German origin and is first recorded in England in the early 18th Century (see below) in the form of Hubner . There are a number of recorded variants of the name, ranging from Huebner and Hubner to Hebner and Hibner . The… …

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  • 87Hubner — This unusual name is of German origin and is first recorded in England in the early 18th Century (see below) in the form of Hubner . There are a number of recorded variants of the name, ranging from Huebner and Hubner to Hebner and Hibner . The… …

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  • 88Huebner — This unusual name is of German origin and is first recorded in England in the early 18th Century (see below) in the form of Hubner . There are a number of recorded variants of the name, ranging from Huebner and Hubner to Hebner and Hibner . The… …

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  • 89Knevet — This long established surname is English but of Norman French origins. Introduced into England at the famous Conquest of 1066, it derives from the word cnivet , which was the Norman form of the Olde English pre 7th Century word cniht , the later… …

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  • 90Knevett — This long established surname is of Anglo Norman origin, and derives from cnivet , the Norman pronunciation of the Olde English pre 7th Century cniht , owing to the French difficulty with the h of cniht . The word originally meant boy, youth,… …

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