ARNOLD
derives from ARNULF "eagle-ruler" which
is a Germanic-Scandinavian name. It has several
different spellings some of which are ARNALT,
ARNAULT, ARNUF, ARNOLD, ARNO, ARNHOLD, etc.
ARNOLD is an English name brought to that country
by several tribes who invaded England from
380-1066. Arnolds were represented in the Angles,
Jutes, Saxons, Celts, and Normans. These were
tribes that invaded England. The early ARNOLD's
were blond barbarians possibly Nordic pagans.
They were very savage in war but were reportedly
open among one another. The Roman Empire fell
about 400 and shortly thereafter various tribes
resumed the invasions of England that had been
going on for unknown eons. In 410 ARNULF and his
brother ALARIC sacked and burned Rome. In 1066
the Normans under William the Conquer had many
ARNOLD's in his army when they invaded England.
These were called Vikings or Northmen. English
ARNOLD's are descended mainly from Saxton and
Norman lines. The majority of ARNOLD families in
England are concentrated South of the Wash and
Mersey rivers in East Central England mostly in
Warwikshire and Leicestershire. These are
primarily of the Saxon origin. Before the
sixteenth century the ancestral home of the
ARNOLD's was in the Welsh shire of Monmouth but
later years the family expanded into the shires
of Glouchester and Dorset. Kent has a town named
ARNOLD in the Hollingbourne district and several
other coastal towns are named ARNOLD. A village
and river on Lewis Island located in the old
Viking sea lane from Scandinavia are named
ARNOLD. The Norman census of 1272-1307 shows many
ARNOLD's. The ARNOLD name and its variations is
not prominent in the first US Census. But in 1964
the Social Security Administration showed that
ARNOLD was the 153rd most common name. In 1972
the United States had 132,800 ARNOLD's.
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