General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> Rudolph /de Mannheim/
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The Mannings   Rebecca Scott-Pharr :    Thursday, September 02, 1999
Manning
Manning is from an old Norse word - manningi - meaning a brave or valiant
man; and one of the first forms of the name was Mannin; another
cartography was Mannygn.
One historian gives a Saxon origin for the family, which he calls
"ancient and noble". According to him, Manning was the name of a town in
Saxony, and form thence the family of Great Britain sprang. Others make
Mannheim, Germany, the cradle of the family, and begin its history with
Ranulph, or Rudolph de Manning, Court Palatine, who, having married
Elgida, aunt to King
Harold I of England, had a grant of land in Kent, England. His name is
also written de Mannheim - Rudolph de Mannheim.
His place in Kent was Downe Court, and there the Mannings have been a
power over since. Simon de Manning, called a grandson of Rudolph, was the
first of the English barons to take up the cross and go forth to the Holy
Wars. He was a companion of King Richard, Couer de Lion, and was knighted
on the battlefield. We can easily see where the cross of the coat of arms
comes from. At Downe Court these arms are seen graven upon tombstones of
the Mannings. By the thirteenth century the family was well represented
in over a score of countries and several towns bear their name -
Manningham, Yorkshire, and Mannington, Norfolk.
(This was copied from "Certification concerning the family name of
Manning", prepared under the authority and direction of the International
Heraldic Institute of Washington, D.C. Smith's Colonial Families of
America - p. 191. W. Cecil Wade - The Symbolism of Heraldy Washbournes
Crests)
(Manning and Allied Families, Elizabeth Ann Wright, 1956, pg. 1)1)