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Davis is a surname of Welsh origin. It may be a corruption of Dyfed.Dyfed is recorded as a surname as late as the twelfth century, e.g. Gwynfard Dyfed, born 1175. Dafydd (generally translated into English as David) appears as a given name in the thirteenth century, e.g. Dafydd ap Gruffydd (1238–1283), Prince of Wales, and Dafydd ab Edmwnd (fl. c. 1450–1497), a Welsh poet.
Davies is a patronymic Welsh surname meaning "son of David". It is the second most common surname in Wales, a rank it shares with "Williams", and the eighth most common surname in England, where many people have Welsh ancestry. [2]
An analysis of the geography of Welsh surnames commissioned by the Welsh Government found that 718,000 people in Wales, nearly 35% of the Welsh population, have a family name of Welsh origin, compared with 5.3% in the rest of the United Kingdom, 4.7% in New Zealand, 4.1% in Australia, and 3.8% in the United States. A total of 16.3 million ...
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The coat of arms of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, [2] the last Welsh Prince of Wales, depicted in the Chronica Majora.. Before the conquest of Gwynedd by Edward I, Wales was ruled by a number of Kings and Princes whose dominions shifted and sometimes merged following the vagaries of war, marriage and inheritance.
This motto and crest is not derived from the chiefly arms, but from a modern coat of arms belonging to William John MacInnis - an American - granted in 1961 by the Court of the Lord Lyon. [204] Tartan for the Clan MacInnes. MacIntyre: Crest: A dexter hand holding a dagger in pale Proper. [205] Motto: Per ardua [205] [Latin, 'Through ...
Vermandois coat of arms, the oldest known, circa 1115, adopted for a county that had been ruled by the last Carolingians. The origin of coats of arms is the invention, in medieval western Europe, of the emblematic system based on the blazon, which is described and studied by heraldry.
Born Herbert Edmund Davies at Mountain Ash (Welsh: Aberpennar), Glamorgan (now in Rhondda Cynon Taf), Wales, he was the third son of Morgan John Davies and Elizabeth Maud Edmunds. Davies was educated at Mountain Ash Grammar School , King's College London where he received a first-class LLB and an LLB in 1926 and an LLD in 1928.