Geoffroy (surname)

Geoffroy (also with J instead of G, -o or -e- instead - eo-, -i instead of -y ) is an old French, widespread especially in the Anglo -Norman name on Germanic Gaufrid ( name variant of Gautfrid, by Gaut " Goth " and frid " peace, protection " ) back. He was in Latin, among other things, as Galfredus, Galfridus ( probably under interpretation of the -u- in Gaufrid as vocalization of l ) and as God ( s) fridus ( under identification with Gotfrid, of Germanic goda "God" and frid ) latinized and adapted in English as Geoffrey.

Geoffroy is the surname of the following persons:

  • Claude -Joseph Geoffroy ( Geoffroy the Younger, 1685-1752 ), French botanist, mycologist and pharmacists
  • Étienne François Geoffroy ( Geoffroy the Elder, 1672-1731 ), French chemist
  • Étienne Louis Geoffroy (1725-1810), French pharmacist and entomologist
  • Jean -Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy (1755-1836), French scientist
  • Jean -Marie Geoffroy (1813-1883), French actor
  • Jean -Nicolas Geoffroy (1633-1694), French composer
  • Julien Louis Geoffroy (1743-1814), French dramatic critic
  • Pierre Geoffroy (1939-1994), French women's soccer pioneer, coach and journalist

Geoffroy is the first name of the following persons:

  • Godfrey I ( Joinville ) ( fr. I. Geoffroy, † 1080 ), Lord of Joinville
  • Gottfried II ( Gâtinais ) ( Gottfried II Ferréol, Geoffroy Ferréol; † 1042/45 ), Count of Gâtinais
  • Galfredus de Vino Salvo ( fr. Geoffroy de Vinsauf; around 1200), rhetorician
  • Geoffroy de Sergines (also coffin Ines; * 1205, † 1269 ), a French knight and temporarily Seneschal and Regent ( Bailli ) of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
  • Geoffroy de Charnay (also: Geoffroy de Charney, * to 1251, † 1314), a member of the Knights Templar
  • Geoffroy de Charny (* 1300, † 1356), a French knight, first detectable owner of the Turin grave cloth
  • Geoffroy de Donjon ( Geoffrey of Donjon and Duisson, † 1202), 1193-1202 Grand Master of the Hospitaller Order
  • Geoffroy de Montbray (also: Geoffroy de Coutances, also: Mowbray, † 1093 ), 1049-1093 Bishop of Coutances and advisor of Duke William II of Normandy
  • Geoffroy de Paris (also: Geoffroi de Paris, Geoffrey of Paris, † 1320 ), French chronicler
  • Étienne Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire (1772-1844), French zoologist
  • Isidore Geoffroy Saint- Hilaire (1805-1861), French zoologist and ethologist

See also:

  • Geoffrey, Gueffroy

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  • Disambiguation
Claude-Joseph Geoffroy Geoffrey, Count of Eu Geoffroi de Charney Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
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