Falck meaning | Last name Falck origin

A variant form of Vass. The same as Vaus - This surname is said by Sir James Dalrymple to be the same with DeVallibus - doubtless through Vaux. In the XII century this great Anglo-Norman family obtained a footing in Scotland, and were lords of Dirleton, county of Haddington; and from them sprang the Vauses or De Vaux, Lords Dirleton.

The Falck is the form of the Faux. See Vaux - 1. It is said that the illustrious family of Vaux derived their surname from a district in Normandy; which is very probable, there being seven or eight places in that province still so designated. It is further asserted that so early as A.D. 794, a branch of the family, bearing the surname of Beaux, Baux, or Vaux, were settled in Provence; which cannot be correct, as heritable family names were not introduced until long after that date. There is, however, no doubt of the influence of the Vauxes in the South of France, and in Italy, at a remote period. A tomb erected in 1615, in the church of St. Clair at Naples, by Hieronymus de Vaux, contains the bones of divers of the females of his ancestry, namely:-
Antonia de Vaux, Queen of Sicily.
Isabella de Vaux, Queen of Naples.
Cecilia de Vaux, Countess of Savoy.
Sibella de Vaux, Princess of Piedmont.
Maria de Vaux, Dauphiness of Vienne.
Isabella de Vaux, Despotess of Servia.

The English family spring from Bertrand de Vaux, who was living in 929, and was a favourite of Robert I, Duke of Normandy, the Conqueror's grandfather. Harold de Vaux, Lord of Vaux, attended William I at the Conquest, and was accompanied by his three sons, Hubert, Ranulph, and Robert. From Hubert sprang the great house of Vaux, or De Vallibus, of Cumberland; and from Robert came the Barons Vaux, of Harrowden, county of Northampton. The heiress of the elder line of this Robert married, in 1553, Thomas Brougham, Lord of Brougham, county of Westmoreland, and hence the title of Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux. 2. The Old French form of De Vallibus, of the origin of which, as a surname, we have this account in Denton's Cumberland MSS., under the barony of Gilsland: "This great barony was given by the Earl Ranulph Meschines to one Hubertus, to be holden of him by two knights' fees and cornage: he was called De Vallibus, or Vaulx, from the dales or Vallies, whereof that country is full. The French word Vaulx (pronounced Vaux) became thence a surname to him and his posterity there, and to divers other families that took their beginning from the younger brothers of this house." Hutchinson's Cumberland.

Falck is the variation of Fawke. Descendant of Fulk meaning "people".

Falck is form of the Ffoulkes. Descendant of Foulk or Fulk meaning "people." An early form of capital F was ff.

The lastname is variant of Foulk. Descendant of Foulk or Fulk meaning "people".

Falck is variant form of the Falkous. A North of England surname which has the variations Faucus, Fawcus, Farcus, and is sometimes confounded with Fawke, Fawkes, etc. It probably meansfalco, faucon, a hawk.

The family name Falck is a variation of Fawcus. See Falkous - A North of England surname which has the variations Faucus, Fawcus, Farcus, and is sometimes confounded with Fawke, Fawkes, etc. It probably meansfalco, faucon, a hawk.

Variant form of the Fawkes. 1. The same as Vaux - 1. It is said that the illustrious family of Vaux derived their surname from a district in Normandy; which is very probable, there being seven or eight places in that province still so designated. It is further asserted that so early as A.D. 794, a branch of the family, bearing the surname of Beaux, Baux, or Vaux, were settled in Provence; which cannot be correct, as heritable family names were not introduced until long after that date. There is, however, no doubt of the influence of the Vauxes in the South of France, and in Italy, at a remote period. A tomb erected in 1615, in the church of St. Clair at Naples, by Hieronymus de Vaux, contains the bones of divers of the females of his ancestry, namely:-
Antonia de Vaux, Queen of Sicily.
Isabella de Vaux, Queen of Naples.
Cecilia de Vaux, Countess of Savoy.
Sibella de Vaux, Princess of Piedmont.
Maria de Vaux, Dauphiness of Vienne.
Isabella de Vaux, Despotess of Servia.

The English family spring from Bertrand de Vaux, who was living in 929, and was a favourite of Robert I, Duke of Normandy, the Conqueror's grandfather. Harold de Vaux, Lord of Vaux, attended William I at the Conquest, and was accompanied by his three sons, Hubert, Ranulph, and Robert. From Hubert sprang the great house of Vaux, or De Vallibus, of Cumberland; and from Robert came the Barons Vaux, of Harrowden, county of Northampton. The heiress of the elder line of this Robert married, in 1553, Thomas Brougham, Lord of Brougham, county of Westmoreland, and hence the title of Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux. 2. The Old French form of De Vallibus, of the origin of which, as a surname, we have this account in Denton's Cumberland MSS., under the barony of Gilsland: "This great barony was given by the Earl Ranulph Meschines to one Hubertus, to be holden of him by two knights' fees and cornage: he was called De Vallibus, or Vaulx, from the dales or Vallies, whereof that country is full. The French word Vaulx (pronounced Vaux) became thence a surname to him and his posterity there, and to divers other families that took their beginning from the younger brothers of this house." Hutchinson's Cumberland

2. A modification of Fulke or Fulco.

A form of Ffoulkes. The pedigree is deduced from Marchudd ap Cynan, lord of Brynffenigi, who flourished in the ninth century. The name appears to have been borrowed from Ffoulk ap Thomas, who lived early in the sixteenth century, and whose descendants have ever since borne it.

Family name Falck is form of Fookes. See Folk, Folkes -

Perhaps, however, the High German fuchs, a fox.