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Vaillancourt

/va.jɑ̃.kuʁ/

proper noun/va.jɑ̃.kuʁ/

Vaillancourt: a habitational surname from placenames

Related: le Vailland, Le Vailland, Le Vaillant, le Vaillant, LeVailland, Levailland, Levaillant, LeVaillant, Vailand, Vailant

Inherited from Old French Villencourt, from the Abbey of Villencourt (Abbaye de Villencourt), from ville+en+court, from being the location where Count William of Ponthieu held court in Thurn, on land belonging to Guillaume D'Abberville where the abbey was.