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 Pace Coat of Arms / Pace Family CrestThis surname of PACE is a French occupational name for a peasant farmer or agricultural labourer, derived from the Old French word PEASANT, and registered in medieval documents in the Latin form PAGENSIS. The 14th century spelling of the name which was PASCE has given rise the the Pace eggs, which we have to this day (Easter eggs). The name is also spelt PEACE, PACE, PAISE, PAYSAN, PAYSANT, PAISANT and PAGES (Catalan). The name was brought into England in the wake of the Norman Invasion of 1066 and early records of the name mention John PESE who was recorded in 1272 in County Bedfordshire. John PAIS appears in 1219 in County Leicestershire, and Ralph PAYS was documented in 1275 in County Norfolk. Willelmus PECE was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. James PASE witnessed a disposition of a land in Wasbister in the parish of Holme in 1483. Magnus PAISE owned a tenement in Kirkwall in the year 1573. John PACE married Margary Roberts in London in 1566. John PEACE was baptised at St. James's, Clerkenwell, London in the year 1649. William PEACE published his 'Descriptive and Historic Handbook to the Orkney Islands' in the year 1862. The origin of badges and emblems, are traced to the earliest times, although, Heraldry, in fact, cannot be traced later than the 12th century, or at furthest the 11th century. At first armorial bearings were probably like surnames and assumed by each warrior at his free will and pleasure, his object being to distinguish himself from others. It has long been a matter of doubt when bearing Coats of Arms first became hereditary. It is known that in the reign of Henry V (1413-1422), a proclamation was issued, prohibiting the use of heraldic ensigns to all who could not show an original and valid right, except those 'who had borne arms at Agincourt'. The College of Arms (founded in 1483) is the Royal corporation of heralds who record proved pedigrees and grant armorial bearings. Most of the European surnames were formed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The process had started somewhat earlier and had continued in some places into the 19th century, but the norm is that in the tenth and eleventh centuries people did not have surnames, whereas by the fifteenth century most of the population had acquired a second name. |
