BEAUMONT

(origin: Nor. Fr.) De Beaumont; a city in France, on the river Sarte, in the province of Mayne; the fair mount. De Bello Monte.

Arthur, William (1857) An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names. New York: Sheldon, Blakeman. Public Domain.

BEAUMONT. Roger de Belmont appears in Domesd. as a chief tenant in cos. Dorset and Gloucester. According to Sir H. Ellis, he was a near kinsman of the Conqueror, being a lineal descendant of that king's great grandfather. Some trace the noble English families from the Viscounts Beaumont of Normandj-, and others from the blood-royal of France. The Itin. de la Normandie gives five places in that province called Beaumont, i. e., ' the fair or beautiful hill,' and there are English parishes, &c., so called in cos. Cumberland, Essex, and Leicester. In charters the name is -(vritten De Bello Monte.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.