Names from Fourteenth Century Foix

by Scolastica la souriete
(Triste Elliot, souriete@yahoo.com)

Revised February 2001. © 1998, 2001 by Triste Elliot; all rights reserved.

Introduction

Le Roy Ladurie wrote his book based on a modern French translation of the original Latin inquisition records. His source was Le registre d'inquisition de Jacques Fournier (Eveque de Pamiers), 1318-1325, translated and annotated by Jean Duvernoy (Toulouse, private edition, 1966. Republished Paris ; New York : Mouton, c1978). I have compared Le Roy Ladurie's book to Duvernoy's translation, and as far as I can tell, Le Roy Ladurie did not modify the names from Duvernoy's spellings. However, Duvernoy himself translated the original Latin names to modern French. Therefore, the spellings of names in these lists cannot be trusted.

With help from Azimont, an enthusiast of the Occitan language, we have added likely Occitan forms of the names; they are shown in italics. A larger selection of Occitan names from the 13th and 14th centuries can be found in Anne Brenon, Le petit livre aventureux des prénoms occitans au temps du Catharisme (Tolosa: Loubatières, 1992).

Feminine Names

Masculine Names