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A given name in French
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01 / Meaning & origin
Bertrade is a feminine given name documented in French.
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04 / Through time
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Bertrade— “bright speech”
Brihtric was the English earl who so gallantly died in defending England from the Danes in the unhappy days of Ethelred the Unready, and another Brihtric was the unsuccessful suitor of Matilda of Flanders, on whom she wreaked an unworthy vengeance after the Conquest. All the Brihts in Domesday seem to be of Saxon birth, since they use the English instead of the Norman French commencement, which was already _Ber_, as in the instance of Bertrade de Montfort, Bright speech, the…
Brihtric was the English earl who so gallantly died in defending England from the Danes in the unhappy days of Ethelred the Unready, and another Brihtric was the unsuccessful suitor of Matilda of Flanders, on whom she wreaked an unworthy vengeance after the Conquest. All the Brihts in Domesday seem to be of Saxon birth, since they use the English instead of the Norman French commencement, which was already _Ber_, as in the instance of Bertrade de Montfort, Bright speech, the countess of Anjou, who deserted her husband for Philippe I. of France. The remaining forms are—
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter VI (Descriptive Names), Section III (Brightness) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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Wife of Fulk of Anjou and queen of France
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06 / Behind the facts
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