Mortimer
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- family name
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- native label
- Mortimer
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- M635
- Cologne phonetics
- 67267
- Caverphone
- MTM111
- Commons category
- Mortimer (surname)
- language of work or name
- English language
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Mortimer is an English surname.
== Norman origins == The surname Mortimer has a Norman origin, deriving from the village of Mortemer, Seine-Maritime, Normandy. A Norman castle existed at Mortemer from an early point; one 11th century figure associated with the castle was Roger, lord of Mortemer, who fought in the Battle of Mortemer in 1054. The 12th century abbey of Mortemer at Lisors near Lyons-la-Forêt is assumed to share the same etymological origin, and was granted to the Cistercian order by Henry II in the 1180s. According to the toponymists Albert Dauzat and later, François de Beaurepaire, there are two possible explanations for such a place name:
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