Kent Family Crest, Coat of Arms & Kent Name Origin

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Origin of the Name Kent

The Kent family history was found in the allfamilycrests.com archives. Meaning 'of Kent', Kent is a locational name. Variants include Kente, Kentish and Kintish. This name is of Anglo-Saxon descent spreading to the Celtic countries of Ireland , Scotland and Wales in early times and is found in many mediaeval manuscripts throughout the above islands. Examples of such are a Robert de Kent, County Norfolk, a Richard de Kenteys, County Hampshire, and a Gilbert de Kent, County Lincolnshire, who were all recorded in the 'Hundred Rolls', England , in the year 1273. A Johannes de Kent was recorded in the 'Poll Tax' of the West Riding of Yorkshire in the year 1379. In Scotland a family of this name, were English vassals of the Stewards, and settled at Innerwick in East Lothian, in the middle of the twelfth century. Some settlers of the name arrived into County Meath as early as the thirteenth century.