Devereux
Current regionWales, Ireland and England
Place of originWales, Herefordshire
Connected familiesD'Évreux ("of Évreux", France), Devereaux and Deveraux

Devereux is a Norman surname found frequently in Ireland, Wales, England and around the English-speaking world. Saint Devereux Church in Hereford, United Kingdom is also named Saint Dubricius and is dedicated to the 6th century clergyman Saint Dubricius from Hereford,[1][2] suggesting that the name is a Norman French rendering of Dubricius or the saint's Welsh name Dyfrig.[3] In Ireland, the name is associated with Wexford, where the Cambro-Normans first invaded from Pembrokeshire, Wales in 1170. Devereux is more probably the Anglo-Norman form of D'Evreux / Devreux, meaning d'Évreux ("from Évreux", a town in Normandy, France). Anglo-Norman develops regularly a svarabakhti vowel /e/ between /v/ and /r/, such as in overi (French ouvrit "opened"), or livere (French livre "book").[4] Dubricius is called Dubrice in French and Dyfrig would have given *Difry / *Dufry in French and *Difery / *Dufery in Anglo-Norman, and St. Devereux is probably a mistranslation after the surname Devereux. The French variant is Devreux, which unlike Devereux is found within Normandy and France themselves.[5]

The similar names Devereaux and Deveraux are alternate spellings of the surname resulting from the various ways of pronouncing it – the placename is pronounced "Dev-ruh" (French pronunciation: [devʁø]), and the surname may be pronounced "Dever-o", "Dever-oo", "Dever-ooks", "Dev-erah", "Dev-rah", "Dev-ruh", or "Dev-rix" (Wexford).

People

Organizations

Places

  • Devereux (Herefordshire), lost village in the United Kingdom
  • Devereux, Georgia, a community in the United States
  • Devereux Creek, Queensland, a small locality on the east coast of Australia
  • St Devereux (Herefordshire), church and parish 6 miles south of Hereford, originally dedicated to the Welsh Saint Dyfrig, Bishop of Ergyng
  • Devereux Beach, a beach near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara

See also

  • Roberto Devereux, tragic opera by Gaetano Donizetti, loosely based on Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". The Archibishops' Council. Retrieved 2023-03-03.
  2. ↑ "St Dubricius, Gwenddwr". parish.churchinwales.org.uk/. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  3. ↑ Emanuel, Hywel David. "DYFRIG (DUBRICIUS), saint (fl. 475?)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  4. ↑ Jacques Allières, La formation de la langue française, coll. Que sais-je ?, Presses universitaires de France, 1982, p. 121.
  5. ↑ "LA FRANCE DU NOM DE FAMILLE DES DEVREUX en France entre 1891 et 1915".
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