Brief Life History of Alexander de
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).
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