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01 / Meaning & origin
Jodocus is a masculine given name. It is a form of Josse, for which English Wikipedia gives the meaning “Lord”.
Meaning: “Lord”
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04 / Through time
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JODOCUS— “sportive”
From _jocus_ came Jodocus, an Armorican prince, belonging to a family which migrated from Wales. He refused the sovereignty of Brittany, to live as a hermit in Ponthieu, where he is still remembered as St. Josse, and named at least three villages, perhaps also forming Josselin; but in his native Brittany, Judicael, an old princely name, seems to have been the form of his commemoration. In _Domesday Book_ we find Judicael _Venator_ already a settler in England before the…
From _jocus_ came Jodocus, an Armorican prince, belonging to a family which migrated from Wales. He refused the sovereignty of Brittany, to live as a hermit in Ponthieu, where he is still remembered as St. Josse, and named at least three villages, perhaps also forming Josselin; but in his native Brittany, Judicael, an old princely name, seems to have been the form of his commemoration. In _Domesday Book_ we find Judicael _Venator_ already a settler in England before the conquest, probably brought by the Confessor. Germany accepted this as a common peasant name, as Jost, or Jobs; Bavaria, as Jobst, or Jodel; Italy, as Giodoco; and the feminine, Jodoca, is not yet extinct in Wales.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part IV, Chapter VI (Modern Names From The Latin), Section IX (Names of Gladness) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
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