Siege

Siege
This unusual and interesting name recorded in the spellings of Sigg, Siggs, Segges, Segge, Seage, Siege, and no doubt others, is English but of Norse Viking pre 8th century origins. The derivation is from the personal name 'Sigegor', which broadly translates as 'victory-spear', and is a good example of the double or sometimes triple, element names so popular in the period. These names are built around the beliefs in religion, valour and success, and were probably necessary to prop up society, at a time when after the collapse of the Roman Empire in the 5th century, as in the 20th century, the underpinnings of civilisation were removed. The early recordings of this name include such examples as 'Sigga' in the Danelaw Rolls of Lincoln in the year 1162, and Sigge of Anemere in the Hundred Rolls of Norfolk in 1275. John Sygges is recorded in Suffolk in 1524, and Colet Sege at St Margaret Moses, London, on August 7th 1558. John Siege was christened at St Martins in the Field, Westminster, on October 10th 1713, and Richard Seage was a witness at St Giles Cripplegate, London, on August 28th 1808. The name has also provided the suffix for such names as Sigfrid, Sigward and Sigmund found as both personal and surnames. The coat of arms has the blazon of a gold field charged with a black bend, and thereon three knights spurs pierced of the field. The crest is a dolphin haurient. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Aunketillus Sigge, which was dated 1214, in the Pipe Rolls of Dorset, during the reign of King John of England, known as 'Lackland', 1199 - 1216. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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  • siege — Siege. s. m. Meuble fait pour s asseoir, comme un fauteüil, une chaise, un tabouret, &c. Siege de bois. siege de drap. siege de tapisserie. siege propre. siege commode. siege pliant. donnez un siege, des sieges. apportez un siege. On dit aussi,… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • siege — Siege, m. penac. Tantost signifie une chaire ou autre chose à se seoir, Sedile, Sedes, Et l Espagnol et l Italien disent de mesmes, Una sedia, Un seddio, ou seggio, una silla. Tantost, mais par metaphore, le lieu de la seance, comme le siege d un …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

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  • siege — [ sidʒ ] noun count or uncount 1. ) an attack in which an army surrounds a castle or city in order to prevent the people inside from receiving food and water: The troops prepared to withstand a long siege. break a siege (=to cause a siege to end) …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • siege — [si:dʒ] n [U and C] [Date: 1100 1200; : Old French; Origin: sege seat, siege , from Vulgar Latin sedicum, from Latin sedere to sit ] 1.) a situation in which an army or the police surround a place and try to gain control of it or force someone to …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Siege — Siege, n. [OE. sege, OF. siege, F. si[ e]ge a seat, a siege; cf. It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. assi[ e]ger to besiege, It. & LL. assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. sedere to sit.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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  • siege — [sēj] n. [ME sege < OFr siege, aphetic < * assiege < VL * absedium, for L obsidium, siege, blockade, ambush < obsidere, to besiege < ob , against + sedere, to SIT] 1. the encirclement of a fortified place by an opposing armed force …   English World dictionary

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