This surname is derived from a nickname. 'the Lombard,' one who came from Lombardy. One or two of the names recorded below are evidently Jewish.

Jacob le Lumberd. Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinesi.

Jacobina la Lumbard, London. Riley's Memorials of London.

Jenteyt Lumbardus, London, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Richard Lomberd, Kent, ibid.

John Lumbard, Oxfordshire, ibid.

Michael le Lumbard, Close Rolls, 12 Edward I.

Marcus le Lumbard, Close Rolls, 20 Edward I.

1657. Married — Hugh Lumbard and Jane Tayler: St. James, Clerkenwell.

Lombard Street, London, took its name from being the district in which the Italian merchants resided. It will be seen that several of the instances above hail from the metropolis.

"A native of Lombardy." Antony, a Lombard physician, obtained a grant of the lands of Fulton, Renfrewshire, from Alan, son of Walter, the Steward, a. 1204 (RMP., p. 53). His posterity held these lands under the Stewarts and were surnamed Lombard. In 1272 Sir Antony Lumbard quitclaimed the lands to the monastery of Paisley (ibid., p. 50—51). Lumbard, a layman, was one of those concerned in the mutilation of John, bishop of Caithness, 1202 (CSR., I, p. 3).

(Anglo-French-Latin-Teut.) 1 a Native of Lombardy, anciently Langobardia or Longo- bardia, the land of the Langobardi or Longobardi (Langobarden), evid. so called from their ‘long beards’ [Old Teutonic lang, long + bard, beard] 2 Banker, Moneylender (from the Lombard banker-immigrants into England in the Middle Ages, whence Lombard Street, London).

Tacitus’ testimony to the renown of the old Elbian Longobardi will be recalled —Longobardos paucitas nobilitat.—Germania, xl.

Sceáfa [weóld] Longbeardum (Sceáfa [ruled] the Longbeards or Lombards),—Wídsið (The Traveller), 66.

A letter from Charlemagne to Offa, King of the Mercians, begins: ‘Karolus gratia Dei rex Francorum et Longdbard- orum . . .’—Cart. Sax., 270.

Since the Middle Ages the term lombard in France has signified a pawnbroker or keeper of a mont-de-piété; also the establishment itself.

Cp. Lumbard.

An occupative name (Lombard meant banker) in Munster since the thirteenth century. MIF 165; Map Cork

“Person from Lombardy” in Northern Italy. Taking the name from the Teutonic Langobards who settled there in the 6th Century. Applied by the French to Italians in general.

(English) One who came from Lombardy (long-bearded men), in Italy.

A native of Lombardy. See Lambarde. Any banker or usurer was so called. In the Netherlands, a Lombard was an excommunicated person. He was denied the sacraments and Christian burial, and no priest would "marry him to any woman, except hee first promise to leave off being a Lumbarde, and doe make restitution." Archaeologia, xxix. 286.

(English), Banker, also Native of Lombardy.