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Foliot: Origin, Geographical Distribution
(Fr.) Frolicksome, merry, gay. Rightly named was Richard Folioth, Bishop of Hereford, who, when he had incurred the hatred of many for opposing himself against Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, one cried with a loud voice at his chamber window at midnight: 'Folioth, Folioth, thy god is the Goddess Azaroth' He suddenly and stoutly replied: ' Thou liest, foul fiend, my God is the God of Sabaoth. Camden.
Foliot Surname Origin
Spelling Variations : FOLLIOT | FOLIOT
Foliot: Place of Origin :  Oxfordshire (United Kingdom) |  Norfolk (United Kingdom) |  Herefordshire and Worcester (United Kingdom) |  Essex (United Kingdom) |  Lincolnshire (United Kingdom) |  Northamptonshire (United Kingdom)
Foliot: Online Family Trees
FOLIOT On King'S Service In Scotland (Scotland, United Kingdom) 1314 - 1349
FOLIOT St. Benet'S Abbey, Holme (Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) 1310 - 1310
FOLIOT Essex (Essex, England, United Kingdom) 1275 - 1275
FOLIOT Great Hormead (Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1275 - 1275
FOLIOT Oxford (Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom) 1311 - 1311
de FOLIOT Gressenhall (Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) 1214 - 1214
de FOLIOT Helmsley, Yorkshire (England, United Kingdom) 1241 - 1241
FOLIOT Frisby (Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom) 1225 - 1225
FOLIOT Gressenhall (Norfolk, England, United Kingdom) 1214 - 1214
FOLIOT Malton, Yorkshire (England, United Kingdom) 1174 - 1174

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Foliot: Books that contain this surname
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FOLIOTDictionary of national biography (Volume 36)
Author: Stephen, Leslie, Sir, 1832-1904 - Published in 1885
... (2) Joan, daughter of Sir Walter Foliot. John was his son by his first wife. Dugdale confuses father and son. ...		 FOLIOTMemorials of the Danvers family (of Dauntsey and Culworth) : their ancestors and descendants from the conquest till the termination of the eighteenth century, with some account of the alliances of the family and of the places, where they were seated
Author: Macnamara, Francis Nottidge, 1831-1899 - Published in 1895
... is the Henry who, marrying Katherine Foliot, brought Waterstoke into the family. The table tells us that the first Sir ...
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