Leroy (name)


Leroy, also Leeroy, LeeRoy, Lee Roy, LeRoy, Le Roy or Roy is both a male given name and a surname.

France

In France, this family name originated from the Normans, the descendants of Norse Vikings who migrated to Amigny, a commune in Manche, Normandy. The derivation is from the Old French roy, roi, meaning "king", which was a byname used before the Norman Conquest and a personal name in the Middle Ages.
Earliest references cite Guillaume de Roy, who was a knight of the Knights Templar and one of several knights and feudal lords of the Roy family in France and Switzerland.
In Canada and in the United States, the descendants of the families of Roy, Le Roy that immigrated to North America have been granted a coat of arms by the Governor General of Canada.

England

After the Norman Conquest, the victorious Normans and their allies settled England and eventually formed the ruling class of nobles called Anglo-Normans. Le Roy, or Le Roi was a family name and also a title that was used by the kings of England & royal administration. This is seen with patronymic surnames like Fitzroy, from Fi(t)z, meaning "son of" and Roy, le Roy meaning "king", denoting the name bearer as a "son of the king".
Le Roy le veult, is a Norman French phrase still used in the Parliament of the United Kingdom to this day as royal assent. A legacy of a time prior to 1488 when parliamentary and judicial proceedings were conducted in Norman.

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