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  Denford Coat of Arms / Denford Family CrestThe surname of DENFORD was a locational name 'of Denford' in the diocese of Peterborough and Oxford. (Ford in a valley). Surnames derived from placenames are divided into two broad categories; topographic names and habitation names. Topographic names are derived from general descriptive references to someone who lived near a physical feature such as an oak tree, a hill, a stream or a church. Habitation names are derived from pre-existing names denoting towns, villages and farmsteads. Other classes of local names include those derived from the names of rivers, individual houses with signs on them, regions and whole countries. In the Middle Ages the Herald (old French herault) was an officer whose duty it was to proclaim war or peace, carry challenges to battle and messages between sovereigns; nowadays war or peace is still proclaimed by the heralds, but their chief duty as court functionaries is to superintend state ceremonies, such as coronations, installations, and to grant arms. Edward III (1327-1377) appointed two heraldic kings-at-arms for south and north, England in 1340. The English College of Heralds was incorporated by Richard III in 1483-84.An early instance of the name was Roger de DENEFORD,county Northamptonshire, recorded in the reign of Henry III (l2l6-l272) and also Walter de DENEFORD county Northamptonshire.Mention is made of a DANEFORD in the Domesday Book. Savva de DENFORD is recorded in the county of Northamptonshire in the reign of Edward I (l272-l307). Over the centuries, most people in Europe have accepted their surname as a fact of life, as irrevocable as an act of God. However much the individual may have liked or disliked the surname, they were stuck with it and people rarely changed them by personal choice. A more common form of variation was in fact involuntary when an official change was made, in other words, a clerical error. As far as records show, true heraldry began in the middle of the l2th century and appeared almost simultaneously in several countries of Western Europe. The lion depicted in the arms is the noblest of all wild beasts which is made to be the emblem of strength and valour, and is on that account the most frequently borne in Coat-Armour. |
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