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Chauntecler Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from a nickname. 'clear singer,' a familiar name for a barndoor cock. Hence, perhaps, a boaster, one who 'crows loudly.' 'A cok, highte Chaunteclere, In all the land of crowing n'as his pere.': Chaucer.

1484 Roger Chauntecler, Close Rolls, 6 Edward III.

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This surname is derived from a nickname. 'clear singer,' a familiar name for a barndoor cock. Hence, perhaps, a boaster, one who 'crows loudly.' 'A cok, highte Chaunteclere, In all the land of crowing n'as his pere.': Chaucer.

1484 Roger Chauntecler, Close Rolls, 6 Edward III.

Thomas Chaunticler, of Attleborough, Norfolk, 1359. History of Norfolk.

If this surname descended to modern times it would probably be lost in Chantler.

— A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

CHANTECLER: Chanticleer is a trivial name for the cock, as old as the days of Chaucer, who however spells it chaunte-clere. The arms of the family contain three cocks.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower
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