A surname recorded in Rossshire. St.-Quentin is a city in the department of Aisne, France. A Hugh de St. Quintin appears as tenant in capite in the counties of Dorset and Essex (DB.).

A baronial name. Osbert de S. Quintino, Normandy 1198 (Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae). St. Q. was near Coutances, in the Cotentin, Normandy. Wido de St. Quentin, t. William I., granted lands to Cerisy on assuming the monastic habit (Mon. i. 960). Alured de St. Q., his son, t. Will. I., gave lands to the same abbey (Ib.). The latter was brother of Hugo, one of the Conqueror’s companions, 1086, who held lands in Essex and Dorset in capite 1086; also in Hants. He had, 1. Robert, who joined in the conquest of Glamorgan 1090, and whose descendants sat in Parliament as barons; 2. William, mentioned in Normandy 1120 (MSAN, viii. 426); 3. Herbert. The latter held houses at Winchester 1110 (Winch. Domesd.), which he granted to Godstowe (Mon. i. 528). He held estates Lincoln and York 1149 (Mon.ii. 198). He had issue Walter and Alan (Mon. i. 474). Hence the St. Quentins, Baronets. It is probable that the family of Herbert was of this house. Herbert, the father of Herbert Fitz-Herbert, Chamberlain to Henry I., was perhaps a brother of Alured de St. Quentin; for the ancient arms of the Herberts and St. Quentins were nearly the same, viz., one or more chevrons and a chief vair.

A location name in Normandy. Sent Quintin in Roll of Battell Abbey and Domesday Book.

St quintin: from a place so called near Coûtances. Hugh de St. Quintin accompanied the Conqueror to England, and received lands in Essex and Dorset (Domesday). Whether the name of Quintin now found points to a descent from the Norman St. Quintin family cannot be said.