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Cristinus Surname Definition:

CRISTINUS: A shortened form of Christianus. A common personal name in the thirteenth century and later. Magister Christian us, a cleric, who witnessed a confirmation charter of Fedale to the monks of Lundors, c. 1220—44, may have been the Crist in us who appears as clerk to Robert, earl of Strathern, c.

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CRISTINUS: A shortened form of Christianus. A common personal name in the thirteenth century and later. Magister Christian us, a cleric, who witnessed a confirmation charter of Fedale to the monks of Lundors, c. 1220—44, may have been the Crist in us who appears as clerk to Robert, earl of Strathern, c. 1233—44 (LAC., p. 29, 31). Cristinus, judex, witness to a document relating to the regality of Arbroath, 1299 (RAA., I, p. 165). In a bishop's precept for the investment of chaplains in the church of Lochalveth, Moray, in 1333, Dominus Cristinus is named as perpetual vicar of the church (REM., p. 289). Cristinus filius Duncani, a 'man' (serf) of the bishop of Moray, had a remission and protection in 1364 (ibid., p. 164).

— The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)
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