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Ida de Hainault - Great Grandma's Last name (?)

Started by Laurie Lurline Oldenstål (Lurline Annette Levie) on Sunday, February 11, 2024
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Hello,
Looking up my 25th Great Grandma, I found her name to be after the town Hainaut.
I found this ref. on her father Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_III,_Count_of_Hainaut

From what I have tried to find out online. Is her name is "Hainaut" - not "Hainault".

I am confused where the "L" in her name came from.

Does anyone know this answer? As I would like to get it straight for my records.

Great Grandma is also my 26th Great Aunt on my Dad's Dad's side, and 25th GGma on my Dad's Mom's side.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida,_Countess_of_Hainaut

Its not her surname. No one had surnames at the time. It just means she was from that area.

Ok, then her name is wrong! - The area is called "Hainaut". No L in the name.

So this should be fixed.

There are often variant spellings for words in the Middle Ages, and this is an example. Both of those spellings were correct, and there was another spelling, also correct — Heynault.

Standardized spelling is a pretty recent invention. In English there was no such thing until the 18th century.

This is also a case wherein even now the variant spellings are acceptable.

Wikipedia is using the Hainaut spelling for Ida, but it used the Hainault spelling for Philippa — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippa_of_Hainault

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