Jonquerets-de-Livet
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Jonquerets-de-Livet is a village and commune in the Eure département of northern France. Jonquerets-de-Livet incorporates the old village of Livet-en-Ouche, once known simply as Livet, a Celtic word meaning 'a marshy area with running water.' The de Livet family, feudal under-tenants of the barony of the de Ferrieres family (centered on that family's seat at nearby Ferrieres-St.-Hilaires), originated in Livet-en-Ouche, and later became the Marquises of Barville in France (de Livet de Barville).[1] The Norman French branch of the de Livet family counts among its members early knights (chevaliers), church officials (including Guillaume de Livet, a judge at the trial of Joan of Arc) and Robert de Livet, Canon of Rouen, Jean de Livet (standard bearer to King Philip II of France) and early Crusaders.[2] The de Livets were among the ancient noble families (noblesse ancienne) of France. A branch of the family was named the hereditary controller of the rivers and waterways of Normandy in the thirteenth century, reflected in the use of an anchor on the family's French coat-of-arms.
A branch of this family followed the Ferrers (Earls of Derby) to England following the Norman Conquest, along with the Curzons (Notre-Dame-de-Courson) and the Baskervilles (Boscherville), who were also under-tenants of the old Ferrieres fiefdom in Normandy.[3] The name of this branch of the de Livet family was anglicized into the name Levett, Levet, Lyvet, Livett, Leavett and its variants.
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- ^ The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States of America, Henry S. King & Co., London, 1874
- ^ Mansions and Country Seats of Staffordshire and Warwickshire, Alfred Williams, Walter Henry Mallett, F. Brown, 1889
- ^ The Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families, Lewis Christopher Loyd, The Harleian Society, Leeds, 1951, vol. 103
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