Haurchefant's Mother

[Alice_89th]

For some reason "de Borel" is ringing a really annoying bell I can't quite reach to stop.

I have the same problem but all my googling has returned nothing.

The only thing I get from it is that it sounds like the name of a noble family (all the other nobles get "de <last name>" eg: Artoirel de Fortemps, Stephanivien de Haillenarte) suggesting that his mother came from a noble house. However so far I've only seen that 'de' used for the four great houses, I have no idea whether lesser houses follow the same naming principles.

Even so, I find it interesting that his same seems to indicate he is of nobility because 1. I assumed his mother would be base born and 2. this would suggest that his mother recognised him as her son or otherwise he would have had a bastard name (like Haurchefant). If his mother has been married of in the meantime it might even take her current husband to legitimise him as son for him to use that name. I am so very confused right now.


(or his name just sounds a lot like 'morel')