Bellases meaning | Last name Bellases origin

Bellases is a variant form of the Belasyse. The genealogists of this family assert, that the great ancestor of the Earls Fauconberg was one Belasius, who came over with the Conqueror in 1066, and became general against the forces of Edwin and Morcar in the Isle of Ely. His son, Roland, married the heiress of Ralph de Belasyse, of that Ilk, in the bishoprick of Durham, and thereupon assumed her surname Collins. De Belasyse is doubtless found in early Norman times, though Be lasius is probably a figment. Bellasis is a hamlet near Morpeth.

A variation of the Bellasise. (See Belasyse). A hamlet in the parish of Stannington, county of Northumberland. This ancient family afterwards removed, unfavourably for themselves, to Henknoull, whence the old northern distich: |"Bellasis, Bellasis, daft was thy knoll, |When exchanged Bellasis for Henknoull." |Sharpe's Chronicon Mirabile.