Lamoral
Recently I was reading a book about "The Princely House of Thurn and Taxis". While doing some research on that topic I found out that there was a man named Lamoral in the family.That is what wikipedia knows about him:"Count Lamoral II Claudius Franz of Thurn and Taxis (baptized on 14 February 1621 in Brussels; died 13 September 1676 in Antwerp) was a German nobleman and Imperial Postmaster."Do you have any info about that name?
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If you can read dutch, you can find a tentative derivation for Lamoraal here:http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/verklaring/naam/Lamoraal
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Thank you! Does it say that Lamoral comes from the Turkish name Amurath?
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Seems so. A search for Amurath turns up this, hinting at Amurath being a variant of Murat / Murad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murad_I
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Thank you!
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I know it goes way back put I don't have any other info. I saw it before but didn't give it much thought till I saw your post. I'm just starting to research it.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamoral,_Count_of_Egmont
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Thank you!Interesting nevertheless!
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