Demontaigu meaning | Last name Demontaigu origin

Variant form of Montague. One who came from Montacute or Mont Aigu, i.e., peaked hill, in Normandy.

The Demontaigu is the variant of Montacute. See Montague - "That the surname of this family," observes Collins, "was anciently written in Latin, De Monte Acuto, and in old English, Montacute, is evident from Domesday Book and other records; but the original name was Montagu, from the town of Montagu in Normandy; of which name and family there are still remaining many persons of distinction in France." The patriarch of the family in England was the great Domesday tenant, Drogo de Monte acuto, who came hither in the retinue of Robert Earl of Mortain, the Conqueror's half-brother. His descendants have been frequently ennobled in both early and modern times. There are at present three places in Normandy called Montaigu; that from which our English family sprang would appear to be Montaigu-les-Bois, in the ar rondissement of Coutances, of which M. Du Bois remarks : "Ses anciens seigneurs étaient fameux dans le moyen-age." Itin. de la Normandie, 516. The parish of Mont acute, county of Somerset, received its appellation from this family, who, as tenants of the Norman Earls of Mortain, had possessions there.

Lastname is a variant form of the Mountague. The same as Montague - "That the surname of this family," observes Collins, "was anciently written in Latin, De Monte Acuto, and in old English, Montacute, is evident from Domesday Book and other records; but the original name was Montagu, from the town of Montagu in Normandy; of which name and family there are still remaining many persons of distinction in France." The patriarch of the family in England was the great Domesday tenant, Drogo de Monte acuto, who came hither in the retinue of Robert Earl of Mortain, the Conqueror's half-brother. His descendants have been frequently ennobled in both early and modern times. There are at present three places in Normandy called Montaigu; that from which our English family sprang would appear to be Montaigu-les-Bois, in the ar rondissement of Coutances, of which M. Du Bois remarks : "Ses anciens seigneurs étaient fameux dans le moyen-age." Itin. de la Normandie, 516. The parish of Mont acute, county of Somerset, received its appellation from this family, who, as tenants of the Norman Earls of Mortain, had possessions there.