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The Yaxley family was first founded in Suffolk where they held a family-seat as Lords of the Manor. After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having prevailed over King Harold, granted most of Britain to his many victorious Barons. It was not uncommon to find a Baron or a Bishop with 60 or more Lordships scattered throughout the country. These he gave to his sons, nephews and other junior lines of his family and they became known as under-tenants. They adopted the Norman system of surnames which identified the under-tenant with his holdings so as to distinguish him from the senior stem of the family. After many rebellious wars between his Barons, Duke William commissioned a census of all England to determine in 1086, settling once and for all, who held which lands. He called the census the Domesday Book, indicating that those holders registered would hold the land until the end of time. Hence, conjecturally, the surname is descended from the tenant of the lands of Yaxley, held by Hubert, a Norman noble from William Malet his over lord, who was recorded in the Domesday Book census of 1086.〔http://www.houseofnames.com/yaxley-family-crest?a=54323-224〕 ==Coat of Arms== The Armorial Bearings for the Surname Yaxley were researched by an Heraldic expert and coat of arms shown to the right was found to be the oldest of the armorial bearings associated with Yaxley. It was granted in Boston, Lincolnshire in the Middle Ages. It appears in Burke's General Armory of 1884.〔http://archive.org/stream/generalarmoryofe00burk/generalarmoryofe00burk_djvu.txt〕 There are several entries for the name Yaxley; these are: Yaxley (Boston, co. Lincoln). Erm. a chev. sa. betw. three mullets pierced gu. Crest — A demi unicorn ar. collared gobonee sa. and or. (sic) Yaxley (Yaxley and Bawthorp, co. Norfolk). Same Arms, Crest — A bull's head erased sa. armed or. (sic) Yaxley (co. Norfolk). Ar. a chev. cotised sa. betw. three mullets of six points gu. pierced or. (sic) Yaxley (Y.'xxley, co. Suffolk). Erm. a chev. sa. betw. three mullets pierced gu. Crest — An Indian goat ar. pellcttee, attired or. (sic) Yaxley. Erm. a chev. betw. three mullets sa. Crest — An heraldic antelope sa. bezante, attired, maned, and tufted or. (sic) Yaxley (Sir Robert Yaxley, knighted by Robert, Earl of Essex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1599). Erm. a chev. sa. betw. three mullets pierced gu. (sic) Yaxley. Ar. a chev. sa. betw. three mullets gu. (sic) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yaxley family」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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