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Turstin
Turstin is a surname that appears in the Domesday Survey of 1086. Notable people with the name include: : * Turstin FitzRolf * Turstin, Count of Avranchin * Turstin, the Fleming of Wigmore * Turstin, the Sheriff, who held 27 manors in Cornall. * Turstin de Crispin de Bec Crispin See also * Dustin * Thorstein * Torsten *Toutain Toutain is a French surname of Norman origin, itself from Old Norse '' Þórsteinn''. Albert Dauzat, ''Noms et prénoms de France'', Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet, p. 572b Notable people with the s ... * Tustin Notes References {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turstin FitzRolf
Turstin fitz Rolf, also known as Turstin le Blanc and Tustein fitz Rou (Old Norse: ''Þorsteinn Hrólfsson'') played a prominent role in the Norman Conquest of England and is regarded as one of the few proven companions of William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He appears to have originated from Bec-de-Mortagne, Pays de Caux, Normandy, Name and origins As the prefix ''fitz'' indicates, Turstin was the son of a man called Rolf (> ''Rouf'' > ''Rou'' in later French), names that are synonymous with their latinized equivalent ''Rollo'', only used for the first Viking count of Rouen Rollo, with the notable exception of Orderic Vitalis that writes ''Turstinus filius Rollonis'' about Turstin le Blanc. The given name Turstin originated in the Old Norse ''Þórstæinn'' (''Thorstein''; "Thor's stone") and is sometimes spelt Tostein, Thurstan, Tostain and similar variants. Turstin appears to have originated in Bec-de-Mortagne, Pays-de-Caux, Normandy, about five mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toutain
Toutain is a French surname of Norman origin, itself from Old Norse '' Þórsteinn''. Albert Dauzat, ''Noms et prénoms de France'', Librairie Larousse 1980, édition revue et commentée par Marie-Thérèse Morlet, p. 572b Notable people with the surname include: * Jules Toutain (1865–1961), French archeologist * Roland Toutain (1905–1977), French actor * Thierry Toutain (born 1962), French racewalker See also * Pierre Toutain-Dorbec (born 1951), French photographer * Thorsten * Turstin * Toutainville, a French commune in département Eure, région Normandy Normandy (; or ) is a geographical and cultural region in northwestern Europe, roughly coextensive with the historical Duchy of Normandy. Normandy comprises Normandy (administrative region), mainland Normandy (a part of France) and insular N ... Variant forms *Tostain *Toustain * Turstin References {{surname, Toutain French-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torsten
Thorsten (Thorstein, Torstein, Torsten) is a Scandinavian given name. The Old Norse name was ''Þórsteinn''. It is a compound of the theonym ''Þór'' (''Thor'') and ''steinn'' "stone", which became ''Thor'' and ''sten'' in Old Danish and Old Swedish. The name is one of a group of Old Norse names containing the theonym ''Thor'', besides other such as ''Þórarin, Þórhall, Þórkell, Þórfinnr, Þórvald, Þórvarðr, Þórolf'', most of which, however, do not survive as modern names given with any frequency. The name is attested in medieval Iceland, e.g. Þorsteinn rauður Ólafsson (c. 850 – 880), Þórsteinn Eiríksson (late 10th century), and in literature such as '' Draumr Þorsteins Síðu-Hallssonar''. The Old English equivalent of the Scandinavian and Norman name is ''Thurstan'', attested after the Norman conquest of England in the 11th century as the name of a medieval archbishop of York (died 1140), of an abbot of Pershore (1080s) and of an abbot of Glastonbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dustin (name)
Dustin is a surname and masculine given name. Etymology Dustin originates from an English surname, which is derived from the Norman personal name ''Tustin'', variant form of ''Turstin'', ''Torstein'', which is in turn derived from the Old Norse ''Þorsteinn'' ( Torsten). This Old Norse name is composed of elements meaning ''Þor'' (the god ''Thor'') and '' steinn'' "stone". Given name * Dustin Ackley (born 1988), American former baseball player * Dustin Antolin (born 1989), American baseball pitcher * Dustin Berg (born 1983), American criminal * Dustin Bomheuer (born 1991), German football player * Dustin Boyd (born 1986), Canadian ice hockey player * Dustin Brown (ice hockey) (born 1984), American ice hockey player * Dustin Brown (tennis) (born 1984), Jamaican-German tennis player * Dustin Breeding (born 1987), member of the R&B group B5 * Dustin Burleson (born 1979), American orthodontist and consultant * Dustin Byfuglien (born 1985), American ice hockey player ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bec-de-Mortagne
Bec-de-Mortagne () is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France. Geography A farming village situated in the wooded valley of the river Ganzeville, in the Pays de Caux, some northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D69 and the D28. History The name comes from ‘’Becr’’, a Norse word for stream, together with the name of the Mortagne family, seigneurs of the village. Bec-de-Mortagne in the Pays de Caux is thought to be the birth-place of Turstin FitzRolf, standard bearer to William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, as he was described by the 12th-century chronicler Orderic Vitalis as from "Bec-en-Caux". Around 1175, Guillaume de Mortagne gave the parish church to the Archbishop of Rouen, ( Willelmi Becco of Moritania) who gave it to the chapter after his death, stipulating that the priest should have a third of the tithes and the canon two-thirds. A knight, Henri de Soteville, sought possession of the chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gentleman's Magazine
''The Gentleman's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1907, ceasing publication altogether in 1922. It was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (from the French ''magazine'', meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Samuel Johnson's first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. History The original complete title was ''The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer''. Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin poetry. It carried original content from a stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotations and extracts from other periodicals and books. Cave, who edited ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (meaning "storehouse") for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacey Grimaldi
Stacey Grimaldi (18 October 1790 – 28 March 1863), was an English lawyer and antiquary. Life Stacey Grimaldi was descended from the house of Grimaldi: he was the great-grandson of Alexander Grimaldi of Genoa, who quit that city after its bombardment by Louis XIV in 1684, and whose father of the same name had been doge of Genoa in 1671. He was born in the parish of St. James, Westminster, on 18 October 1790, and was the second son of William Grimaldi, miniature-painter, of Albemarle Street, London, by his wife Frances, daughter of Louis Barker of Rochester. Upon the death of his elder brother in 1835 the title of Marquis Grimaldi of Genoa and the claims on the family possessions in Genoa and Monaco became vested in him. For upwards of forty years he practised as a solicitor in Copthall Court in the city of London. He was eminent as a 'record lawyer,' and was engaged in several important record trials and peerage cases. In 1824 he was elected a fellow of the Society of Anti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Beaurepaire
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (James (wikt:Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/ǵerh₂-">ĝer-, where the ĝ is a palatal consonant, meaning "to rub; to be old; grain." An old man has been worn away and is now grey with age. In some Slavic languages, the name ''Drago (given name), Drago'' (and variants: ''Dragom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
