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Wardedieu Surname Definition:

WARDEDIEU, WARDEDU: It is asserted that the progenitor of this family "was a cadet of the family of Monceux, lords of Herst-Monceux, who becoming, in the XIII. century, a ward of the Earl of Eu (to whom the manor of Bodiam, of which he was proprietor, was feudally subject) assumed the surname of Ward d'Ou, which he transmitted to his descendants; but as the name is usually found with the territorial prefix De, this statement may well be questioned.

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WARDEDIEU, WARDEDU: It is asserted that the progenitor of this family "was a cadet of the family of Monceux, lords of Herst-Monceux, who becoming, in the XIII. century, a ward of the Earl of Eu (to whom the manor of Bodiam, of which he was proprietor, was feudally subject) assumed the surname of Ward d'Ou, which he transmitted to his descendants; but as the name is usually found with the territorial prefix De, this statement may well be questioned." Bodiam and its Lords, p. 10. The first of the family on record is William de Wardedieu, who flourished under Henry III.

— Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower
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