This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'de Burgoyne' a native of Burgundy.

John de Burgoyne, Somerset, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Almaric Burgoyne, Bedfordshire, ibid.

John Burgoyn, Gloucestershire, ibid.

Thomas Burgoyn. Calendarium Inquisitionum Post Mortem.

Elizabet de Burgon, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

Richard Burgoyne, rector of Newton, Norfolk: History of Norfolk.

1638. Baptised — Anne, d. John Burgin: St. James, Clerkenwell.

1703. Roger Burgoyne (Warwickshire) and Constance Middleton: Marriage Lic. (London).

1764. Married — John Burgon and Susanna Parkin: St. George, Hanover Square.

About the year 1128 Robert Burgonensis, miles, was accused of rapacity by the monks of St. Serf's island, Loch Leven (RPSA., p. 117,118). He was a frequent witness to charters in the earlier years of the reign of David I. "M. Merlet suggests that he was the 'Seigneur de Sable,' 'troisieme fils d'un autre Robert de Bourgignon Seigneur de Sable qui s'etait croise' en 1096" (Lawrie, p. 330).

Weak forms of Burgoine, Bur- goyne, q.v. [(Anglo-French-Lat,-?Teut.) Native of Burgundy [French Bourgogne, Latin Burgundia. Acc. to the German philo­logists the names Burgundiones and Burgundii of the classical writers denoted dwellers in burghs or fortified places— O. Teutonic burg] John de Burgoyne.—Hundred Rolls And thus Lucius cam with alle his hoost . . . and commaunded them to mete with hym in Burgoyne, for he purposed to destroye the Royame of lytyl Bretayne.— Morte d’Arthur, V. ii.

A native of Burgundy. The date of this family's settlement in England is uncertain. They have a tradition of having been in co. Bedford from temp. John, (Courthope's Debrett's Baronetage); but Lysons asserts that they did not possess lands in that shire till about 1465, having resided at a more remote date in co. Cambridge. If this be so, we must not accept as genuine a certain rhyming grant, by which John of Gaunt assigns to a member of the family the lands of Sutton and Potton in the former county: —

Local. From Bourgogne, now Burgundy, an old province of France. A name given to a native of that province.

The name of Burgoyne, or Burgoin, has been represented for centuries in the county. William Burgoyn was chamberlain of the city of Exeter in 1496, and William Burgoyn was sheriff of that city in 1537 (I.). In the 16th and 17th centuries a gentle family of Burgoin resided at Bideford (W.); and in the reign of George I., Thomas Burgoyne was a Bideford gentleman (Wat.). In fact, as far back as the time of Henry VIII., Jeofferie Burgin was a Bideford townsman (Wat.). During the 16th and 17th centuries a gentle family of Burgoin flourished in the hamlet of Zeal near South Tawton (P. and W.). Robert Burgoine, Esq., was a Tiverton churchwarden in 1654 (D.). In the 13th century this name, in the forms of Burgoyn and Burgoyne, occasionally preceded by "De," occurred in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire, and Somerset (H. R.). The Burgoyns in the east of England were at that distant period important families, and it is stated by most of the Devonshire antiquarians and historians that the Devonshire stock hailed originally from Bedfordshire. If this is true, the migration must have occurred at a very early date, since not only, as I have observed above, were high official positions in the city of Exeter held by the Burgoyns in the reigns of Henry VII. and Henry VIII., a circumstance itself not indicative of recent immigration, but as far back as the reign of Edward I. the name was represented in the west of England in the counties of Somerset and Gloucester (H. R.). According to Lower, the signification of the name implies the origin of the family in Burgundy.