Barbazon meaning | Last name Barbazon origin

Is variant form of Brabazon. The English and Irish Brabazons claim from Jacques le Brabazon, who is said to have come into England with the Conqueror and to have borne the honourable distinction of "The Great Warrior." His posterity settled, during the early Norman reigns, at Betchworth, county of Surrey, and from them descended in an unbroken line the B.'s, carls of Meath, and baronets in Ireland. The name, variously written Barbauzon, Barbanzon, Brabazon, etc., is traditionally derived from the town or castle of Brabazon, in Normandy, but as no such locality can be found, its true source appears to be Brabantin Flanders, as stated in Lodge's Peerage of Ireland. In that duchy the village and castle of Brabançon had lords of the same name, one of whom espoused a grand-niece of Godfrey of Bouillon, King of Jerusalem, circ. 1100. See Geneal.

Hist. of Fam. of Brabazon. Paris, 1823.

A Brabançon was a native of Brabant. The mercenary soldiers employed by William Rufus, Stephen, Henry 11., and John, were so called from their having principally come from that district. Like the Genoese and Swiss of later times, they were soldiers by trade, and lent their services to any monarch who would pay them best.