Foljambe meaning | Last name Foljambe origin

Is a variation of the Foulsham. A town in Norfolk.

Jambe is French for leg, and fol, folle is often employed in Old French for something useless or of little value, as 'farine folle,' mill-dust, ‘figue folle,' a good for-nothing fig. Hence Foljambe was probably a sobriquet allusive to a useless or defective Leg. We find, in the Hundred Rolls the antithetical Bele-jambe, or "handsome leg" as a surname, and indeed the jambe, or leg, gave rise to other sobriquets and family names in the middle ages. As a remarkable instance, in the far-famed Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, temp. Richard II., one of the witnesses calls Edward I. "the good king Edward with the long legs,'-ovez les long jaumbes. This family were doubtless of Norman origin, and the pedigree is traced to Sir Thomas Foljambe, who was bailiff of the High Peak, county of Derby, in 1272.

Form of Folsom. One who came from Foulsham meaning "Foghel's homestead," in Norfolk.

Is the variation of the Fulljames. A corruption of Foljambe - Jambe is French for leg, and fol, folle is often employed in Old French for something useless or of little value, as 'farine folle,' mill-dust, ‘figue folle,' a good for-nothing fig. Hence Foljambe was probably a sobriquet allusive to a useless or defective Leg. We find, in the Hundred Rolls the antithetical Bele-jambe, or "handsome leg" as a surname, and indeed the jambe, or leg, gave rise to other sobriquets and family names in the middle ages. As a remarkable instance, in the far-famed Scrope and Grosvenor controversy, temp. Richard II., one of the witnesses calls Edward I. "the good king Edward with the long legs,'-ovez les long jaumbes. This family were doubtless of Norman origin, and the pedigree is traced to Sir Thomas Foljambe, who was bailiff of the High Peak, county of Derby, in 1272.