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Help[Facts] Re: Balliol
in reply to a message by Sian
Balliol is the surname of a Norman French family that settled in northern England and southern Scotland after the Norman conquest. The surname indicates that they came from Bailleul, a place in the province of Picardy in France. One of the oldest parts of Oxford University in England is Balliol College, named after this family.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/fr-59-ba.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/50655/Balliol-family
Perhaps the name was adopted because it resembles a name in the Rom language, but the "upper class" associations of the name probably also operated in making it seem like an interesting "English" name to adopt in Rom culture.
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/Flags/fr-59-ba.html
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/50655/Balliol-family
Perhaps the name was adopted because it resembles a name in the Rom language, but the "upper class" associations of the name probably also operated in making it seem like an interesting "English" name to adopt in Rom culture.
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