This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'A place in Normandy now called Sanqueville, about seven miles from Dieppe' (Lower); v. long article in Lower's Patronymica Britannica. The family seem to have come in with the Conqueror, or immediately after, and were highly placed.

John de Sakewyle, Surrey, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Jordan de Sakeville, Suffolk, ibid.

Gwydo de Sakevill, Sussex, Henry III-Edward I: Testa de Nevill, sive Liber Feodorum, temp. Henry III-Edward I.

Robert de Saccavill, Devon, ibid.

Andrew de Sakevile, Norfolk, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

Like Harcourt, Sackville has not become the property of the commonalty. There is no representative in the London Directory. There is none, also, in Crockford.

(Anglo-French-Latin) belonging to 1 Secqueville (Calvados, Norm.) = the Dry Vill, i.e. (apparently) the Dry-built [Nor. French secque, from (French sec, sèche), Latin sicc-, dry + French ville, Latin villa] This name was Latinized in mediæval documents de Sicca Villa: cp. Drayton, Latinized de Arida Villa.

2 Sacquenville (Eure, Norm.)

A place in Normandy, now called Sauqueville, near the river Scie, in the department of the Lower Seine, about seven miles from Dieppe. Collins says, that the family were lords of the town and seigniory "long before the Conquest." The name was variously written De Salchevilla, Salkavilla, Saccavilla, &c. According to genealogists, the first of the family in England was Herbrand de Salchevilla, who came in with the Conqueror, while his kinsman, Jourdain de S., was Sewer of England under the same monarch. At the commencement of the XIII. century, another Jourdain de S. founded the collegiate church of Sauqueville, which remained ' une des plus belles de la contre ' until the year 1825, when it was pulled down by a neighbouring proprietor, who used its materials for building a cotton-mill. Cochet, Les Eglises de Dieppe (Egl. Rurales), p. 89, where a most interesting account of the church is given. It is added: "At the sight of a profanation so awful, the good inhabitants of Sauqueville revolted against the demolishers. There was a riot; an armed force was obliged to interfere, and these sons of the Crusaders were sent to prison for resisting a legal order!" This act of Vandalism deprived both Norman and English antiquaries of what might be regarded as an historical monument, since its founder, Jourdain de Sauqueville, was one of the bravest defenders of King John and his Norman dependencies against the French. A railway now traverses the desecrated churchyard of Sauqueville.

Joannes and Gilo de Sakenvilla, Normandy, 1180-95 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae). The history of the English family, Lords Buckhurst, Dukes of Dorset, is well known.