<P> Montgomery or Montgomerie is a surname from a place name in Normandy . Although there are many stories of its origin, an old theory explains that the name is a corruption of "Gomer's Mount" or "Gomer's Hill" (Latin: Mons Gomeris), any of a number of hills in Europe named in attribution to the biblical patriarch Gomer, but it does not explain the final - y or - ie (the phonetical evolution would have been * Montgomers) and it does not correspond to the old mentions of the place name Montgommery in Normandie: Monte Gomeri in 1032--1035, de Monte Gomerico in 1040 and de Monte Gumbri in 1046--1048 . More relevant is the explanation by the Germanic first name Gumarik, a compound of guma "man" (see bridegroom) and rik "powerful", that regularly gives the final - ry (- ri) in the French first names and surnames (Thierry, Amaury, Henry, etc .). Moreover, the name is still used as a surname in France as Gommery, from the older first name Gomeri . </P> <P> The earliest known person to be styled with the name is Roger de Montgomerie, found in a contemporary document as father of the 11th century Norman nobleman, Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury who owned the village of Montgommery, today in the Calvados département . Alternatively, a Hugh de Montgomery is given as the earl's father by a Norman chronicler writing in the next generation and some have hypothesized an error whereby Hugh is actually father of the elder Roger . </P>

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