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Lyons (surname)
Lyons is a surname with several origins.
It is the name of an Anglo-Norman landed gentry family descended from Ingelram de Lyons The Elder, who arrived in England with the Norman Conquest of 1066 and fought at the Battle of Hastings. He is listed as a companions of William the Conqueror in the Battle Abbey Roll. His son Nicholas de Lyons, who, with his son Sir John de Lyons, emigrated from Normandy to England in 1080, was granted lands at Warkworth, Northamptonshire, by William.
The Norman family surname was 'de Lyons' ('of [the Castle and Forest of] Lyons'): but the 'de' was eventually omitted from the surname of the emigrant family. Subsequently (as a consequence of the lack, before the 18th century, of standardised spelling for the French pronunciation of the surname) some English branches removed the 's' from the end of the surname, producing 'Lyon'. For example, the 16th century Lord Mayor of London Sir John Lyon used the spelling 'Lyon', despite that his father, Thomas Lyons [sic] of Perivale, used the spelling 'Lyons'.
In 1622, after their involvement in the Tudor conquest of Ireland, a branch of the Anglo-Norman family settled in Ireland, with a seat at King's County that was named River Lyons, and a seat at County Westmeath that was named Ledestown/Ledistown Hall. Several members of the Irish family served as High Sheriff of Westmeath and High Sheriff of King’s County during the 17th and 18th centuries. This Irish branch of the family owned 563 acres in Antigua. Some of its descendants were ennobled in the British peerage.
The unennobled landowning English line of the Norman Warkworth family who did not emigrate to Ireland and Antigua had ceased to reside at Warkworth by the 16th century, after which they resided predominantly in Middlesex.
There is also a Celtic Irish family, unrelated to the Anglo-Norman family, and whose name derives from the Celtic word for 'grey', through the Irish names of Ó Laighin and 'Ó Liatháin.
It dubiously has been asserted that Sir John Lyon (1289–1348), Baron of Forteviot, Forgandenny, and Drumgawan (whose ancestors emigrated to Scotland the end of the eleventh century, in the retinue of Edgar, to fight against Donald Bane, and were granted lands in Perthshire that were later called Glen Lyon) was a descendant of the Norman family. However, the usually reliable genealogist Sir Iain Moncreiffe stated that the Scottish Clan Lyon were of Celtic, not Norman, origin and that they were descended from a younger son of the Clan Lamont, not from any French family.
The surname is also carried by an unrelated 21st century Scottish crime family from Glasgow.
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Lyons (surname)
Lyons is a surname with several origins.
It is the name of an Anglo-Norman landed gentry family descended from Ingelram de Lyons The Elder, who arrived in England with the Norman Conquest of 1066 and fought at the Battle of Hastings. He is listed as a companions of William the Conqueror in the Battle Abbey Roll. His son Nicholas de Lyons, who, with his son Sir John de Lyons, emigrated from Normandy to England in 1080, was granted lands at Warkworth, Northamptonshire, by William.
The Norman family surname was 'de Lyons' ('of [the Castle and Forest of] Lyons'): but the 'de' was eventually omitted from the surname of the emigrant family. Subsequently (as a consequence of the lack, before the 18th century, of standardised spelling for the French pronunciation of the surname) some English branches removed the 's' from the end of the surname, producing 'Lyon'. For example, the 16th century Lord Mayor of London Sir John Lyon used the spelling 'Lyon', despite that his father, Thomas Lyons [sic] of Perivale, used the spelling 'Lyons'.
In 1622, after their involvement in the Tudor conquest of Ireland, a branch of the Anglo-Norman family settled in Ireland, with a seat at King's County that was named River Lyons, and a seat at County Westmeath that was named Ledestown/Ledistown Hall. Several members of the Irish family served as High Sheriff of Westmeath and High Sheriff of King’s County during the 17th and 18th centuries. This Irish branch of the family owned 563 acres in Antigua. Some of its descendants were ennobled in the British peerage.
The unennobled landowning English line of the Norman Warkworth family who did not emigrate to Ireland and Antigua had ceased to reside at Warkworth by the 16th century, after which they resided predominantly in Middlesex.
There is also a Celtic Irish family, unrelated to the Anglo-Norman family, and whose name derives from the Celtic word for 'grey', through the Irish names of Ó Laighin and 'Ó Liatháin.
It dubiously has been asserted that Sir John Lyon (1289–1348), Baron of Forteviot, Forgandenny, and Drumgawan (whose ancestors emigrated to Scotland the end of the eleventh century, in the retinue of Edgar, to fight against Donald Bane, and were granted lands in Perthshire that were later called Glen Lyon) was a descendant of the Norman family. However, the usually reliable genealogist Sir Iain Moncreiffe stated that the Scottish Clan Lyon were of Celtic, not Norman, origin and that they were descended from a younger son of the Clan Lamont, not from any French family.
The surname is also carried by an unrelated 21st century Scottish crime family from Glasgow.