Losinga

2 Losinga [etym. dub., assoc. by some w. Lotharingia; v. e. g. Gentleman’s Magazine CCIX (1860) 530, 647–8, Arch. Soc. Norf VIII (1879) 282–9] , a surname, esp. of Herbert, bishop of Thetford and Norwich (d. 1119), and his father Robert, abbot of Winchester (d. 1098); b (by assoc. w. AN, OF, ME losenger, losengier, understood as ‘flatterer’). a surgit in ecclesia monstrum, genitore Losinga, / simonidum secta, canonum virtute resecta (Vers. anon.) W. Malm. GR IV 338; Herbertus ‥ Losengia Ord. Vit. X 2 p. 12; ab Hereberto Losenge ‥, H. ‥ cognomento ~a M. Par. Maj. II 35; Rodbertus abbas cognominatus Losenge (Reg. New Minster, Winchester) Hants Rec. Soc. (1892) 37. b s1094 Hereberhtus, qui cognominabatur ~a, quod ei ars adulationis †nuper egerat ‥ Theodfordensis ecclesie factus est episcopus, patre suo Rotberto ejusdem cognominis in abbatiam Wintonie intruso Fl. Worc. II 33 (cf. W. Malm. GR IV 338 (= id. GP II 74 p. 151): H. cognomento ~a, quod ei ars adulationis impegerat); Herbertus Losynga, id est adulator, episcopatum de Thedfordia emit a rege Brompton 991.

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