Devereux is a

Norman Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 9th and 10th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norma ...

surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

. Derived form of ''D'Evreux'' / ''Devreux'', meaning ''d'Évreux'' ("from

Évreux Évreux () is a commune in and the capital of the department of Eure, in the French region of Normandy. History Antiquity In late Antiquity, the town, attested in the fourth century AD, was named '' Mediolanum Aulercorum'', "the central town ...

", a town in

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, France), the surname is found frequently in

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and

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and to a lesser extent elsewhere in the English-speaking world. Saint Devereux Church in Hereford, United Kingdom is also named ''Saint Dubricius'' and is dedicated to the 6th century clergyman Saint Dubricius from Hereford, suggesting that the name is a

Norman French Norman or Norman French (, , Guernésiais: , Jèrriais: ) is a '' langue d'oïl'' spoken in the historical and cultural region of Normandy. The name "Norman French" is sometimes also used to describe the administrative languages of '' Angl ...

rendering of ''Dubricius'' or the saint's Welsh name ''Dyfrig''. In Ireland, the name is associated with

Wexford Wexford ( ; archaic Yola dialect, Yola: ''Weiseforthe'') is the county town of County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Wexford lies on the south side of Wexford Harbour, the estuary of the River Slaney near the southeastern corner of the ...

, where the

Cambro-Normans Cambro-Normans (; "Wales", ; ) were Normans who settled in southern Wales and the Welsh Marches after the Norman invasion of Wales. Cambro-Norman knights were also the leading force in the Cambro-Norman invasion of Ireland, led by Richard de ...

first invaded from

Pembrokeshire Pembrokeshire ( ; ) is a Principal areas of Wales, county in the South West Wales, south-west of Wales. It is bordered by Carmarthenshire to the east, Ceredigion to the northeast, and otherwise by the sea. Haverfordwest is the largest town and ...

, Wales in 1170. Anglo-Norman develops regularly a

svarabakhti In phonology, epenthesis (; Greek ) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the first syllable ('' prothesis''), the last syllable (''paragoge''), or between two syllabic sounds in a word. The opposite process in which ...

vowel /e/ between /v/ and /r/, such as in ''overi'' (French ''ouvrit'' "opened"), or ''livere'' (French ''livre'' "book").

Dubricius Dubricius or Dubric (; Norman-French: ''Devereux''; c. 465 – c. 550) was a 6th-century British ecclesiastic venerated as a saint. He was the evangelist of Ergyng () (later Archenfield, Herefordshire) and much of south-east Wales. ...

is called ''Dubrice'' in French and Dyfrig would have given ''*Difry'' / ''*Dufry'' in French and ''*Difery'' / ''*Dufery'' in Anglo-Norman, and ''St. Devereux'' is probably a mistranslation after the surname ''Devereux''. The French variant is ''Devreux'', which unlike ''Devereux'' is found within Normandy and France themselves. The similar names '' Devereaux'' and ''

Deveraux Deveraux is a surname, derived from the Norman French '' Devereux'' (likely influenced by the common English pronunciation of that name, "Devero"). Notable people with the surname include: * James Deveraux (1903–1988), United States Marine Corps ...

'' are alternate spellings of the surname resulting from the various ways of pronouncing it – the placename is pronounced "Dev-ruh" (), and the surname may be pronounced "Dever-o", "Dever-oo", "Dever-ooks", "Dev-erah", "Dev-rah", "Dev-ruh", or (in and around Wexford) "Dev-rix".

People

Count of Évreux The Count of Évreux was a French noble title and was named for the county of Évreux in the Duchy of Normandy, disputed between Kingdom of France, France and Kingdom of England, England during parts of the Hundred Years' War. It was successively ...

, title of French nobility at the origin of the name * Catherine Ann Devereux (1823–1875), American diarist * Elizabeth Devereux-Rochester (1917–1983), British female spy *

George Devereux Georges Devereux (; born György Dobó, ; 13 September 1908 – 28 May 1985) was a Hungarian-French ethnologist and psychoanalyst, often considered the founder of ethnopsychiatry.

(1908–1985), French-Hungarian ethnologist and psychoanalyst (born in Lugoj, nowadays part of Romania) * Helena Devereux (1885–1975), American educator and founder of the Devereux Foundation *

James Devereux James Patrick Sinnott Devereux (February 20, 1903 – August 5, 1988) was a United States Marine Corps general, Navy Cross recipient, and Republican congressman. He was the officer-in-charge (OIC) of the 1st Defense Battalion Detachment durin ...

(1903–1988), U.S. Marine Corps General and politician *

Jim Devereux James Devereux (1887–1934), also known by the nickname of "Muscles", was a pioneering Australian rugby league footballer who played in the 1900s, 1910s and 1920s. As New South Wales state and Australia national representative three-quarte ...

(1885–1936), Australian rugby league footballer * John Devereux (disambiguation) *

Lillie Devereux Blake Lillie Devereux Blake, pen name, Tiger Lily; (August 12, 1833 – December 30, 1913) was an Americans, American Women's suffrage in the United States, woman suffragist, reformer, and writer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina and educated in New Have ...

(1833–1913), American feminist *

Marie Devereux Marie Devereux (27 November 194030 December 2019) was a British model and film actress. She was born Patricia Sutcliffe on 27 November 1940 in Edmonton, London. Devereux became a regular and popular nude model in magazines during the 1950s, an ...

(1940–2019), British actress * Mary Bayard Devereux (1827–1886), American writer and photographer *

Nicholas Devereux Nicholas Devereux (June 7, 1791 – December 29, 1855) was an Irish-American financier and banker, and one of the major early landowners in western New York state. "Nicholas Devereux was very charitable and hospitable — a cultured, pious, progr ...

(1791–1855), Irish-American banker, trustee, and western New York landowner * General Ricardo Wall y Devereux (1694–1777), Spanish General and Prime Minister of the 18th-century * Richard Devereux (disambiguation) *

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex (; 10 November 1565 – 25 February 1601) was an English nobleman and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Politically ambitious, he was placed under house arrest following a poor campaign in Ireland during th ...

(1565–1601), military hero and royal favourite, executed for treason *

Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, KB, PC (; 11 January 1591 – 14 September 1646) was an English Parliamentarian and soldier during the first half of the 17th century. With the start of the Civil War in 1642, he became the first Captai ...

(1591–1646), son of Robert Devereux, courtier and soldier * Robin Devereux, 19th Viscount Hereford (born 1975), a peer and premier viscount *

Sean Devereux Sean Devereux (25 November 1964 – 2 January 1993) was a British Salesian missionary and aid worker assassinated in Kismayo, Somalia in 1993 while working for UNICEF. He has since become an important role model for the aid-working vocation, pa ...

(1964–1993), British educator, aid worker and missionary *

Wallace Charles Devereux Wallace Charles Devereux CBE (9 March 1893 – 21 June 1952) was a British businessman and engineer, known for his work in producing light alloys for the aircraft industry. Education He was born in Aston, now part of Birmingham, in 1893, the ...

(1893–1952), British metallurgist and businessman, founder of High Duty Alloys Ltd. * Walter Devereux (disambiguation) is a name shared by several members of the same family *

William Devereux, Baron Devereux of Lyonshall William Devereux, Baron Devereux of Lyonshall (–1314) was an English noble who was an important Marcher Lord as he held Lyonshall Castle controlling a strategically vital approach to the border of Wales in the time of Edward I and Edward II. ...

(c.1244–1314), a Marcher Lord in the times of Edward I and II in England

Organizations

* Devereux Foundation, U.S. non-profit organization founded by Helena Devereux * Devereux Glenholme School, Connecticut

Places

* Devereux (Herefordshire), lost village in the United Kingdom * Devereux, Georgia, a community in the United States * Devereux Creek, Queensland, a locality in the Mackay Region, Australia * St Devereux (Herefordshire), church and parish south of Hereford, originally dedicated to the Welsh Saint Dyfrig, Bishop of Ergyng * Devereux Beach, a beach near the campus of the

University of California, Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Tracing its roots back to 1891 as an ...

* Devereux Beach, a beach in

Marblehead, Massachusetts Marblehead is a coastal New England town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, along the North Shore (Massachusetts), North Shore. Its population was 20,441 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The town lies on a small peninsu ...

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