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The surname FitzGerald is a patronymic of the Norman form, fitz meaning "son". "Fitz Gerald" thus means in Old Norman and in Old French "son of Gerald". Gerald itself is a Germanic compound of ger, "spear", and waltan, "rule". Variant spellings include Fitz-Gerald and the modern Fitzgerald. The name can also appear as two separate words Fitz ...
FitzGerald or Fitzgerald, is an Irish surname of Hiberno-Norman origin. It is a patronymic derived from the prefix Fitz - from the Latin filius- plus Gerald , thus meaning "son of Gerald”. In Goidelic languages , e.g. the Irish language , it is rendered Mac Gearailt .
Royal family: extinct 1376: for Philip, son of King Philip VI: Count of Nevers: 1347: Royal family, Flanders: extinct 1383: for Marguerite, daughter of King Philip V: Reign of John II (22 August 1350 - 8 April 1364) Count of Mantes: 1353: Évreux (Royal family) exchanged 1404 Count of Beaumont-le-Roger: 1354: Évreux (Royal family) exchanged ...
Emperor of the French r. 1804–1814, 1815: Joséphine de Beauharnais 1763–1814: Alexandre de Beauharnais 1760–1794: Louis Bonaparte 1778–1846 King of Holland: Napoleon II 1811–1832 Emperor of the French r. 1815 (disputed) Hortense de Beauharnais 1783–1837: Napoleon III 1808–1873 Emperor of the French r. 1852–1870: Eugénie de ...
The Leicester connection is considered more likely as Robert de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Leicester is known to have had a son William but Heraldry expert A.C. Fox Davies has suggested the early Beaumont Earls of Leicester bore the arms Gules, a lion rampant queue-fourchee argent following the work of Sir Anthony Wagner's History of Heraldry of ...
D'Aubert family; House of Dampierre; Jean-Marie de Bancalis de Maurel, marquis d'Aragon; Louis de Cardevac, marquis d'Havrincourt; Pineton de Chambrun family; De Forcade family; De Galard family; De la Rochejacquelein; Antoine-François, marquis de Lambertye; De Lancey family; De Perier family; De Pury family; Gabriel-Jacques de Salignac de La ...
A New Dictionary of the French Revolution (2011) excerpt and text search; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, ed. The Encyclopedia of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History (3 vol. 2006) Furet, Francois, et al. eds. A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution (1989) long articles by scholars excerpt and ...
Maurice Agulhon (1926–2014), French history of the 19th and 20th centuries [26] Henri Amouroux (1920–2007), Nazi occupation of France [1] Philippe Ariès (1914–1984), cultural history, with focus on the changing nature of childhood, and attitudes toward death [1] [27]