When Alexander de Deiville was born about 1242, in Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, Sir Robert d'Eiville, was 38 and his mother, Dionise Fitzwilliam, was 17.
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English (Staffordshire):
(of Norman origin): habitational name from Déville in Seine-Maritime.
nickname from Middle English devel ‘devil’ (Old English dēofol). This may have been acquired as a pageant name or as a shortened form of a longer nickname such as that of Robert and William Drepedevel (‘kill the devil’), recorded in the 1301 Subsidy Rolls (Sutton Howgrave, in Kirklington, North Yorkshire).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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