Note 799 — Chapter V · GEOFFREY PLANTAGENET AND STEPHEN OF BLOIS. 1128–1139.

This is Joceas’s surname according to the romantic History of Fulk Fitzwarine, and it is adopted by Mr. Eyton, who takes it as derived from Dinan in Britanny; see his account of Joceas, Antiqu. Shropsh., vol. v. pp. 244–247. According to this, the name of Dinham, now borne by the part of Ludlow which lies south and west of the castle, would be a corruption of Dinan, which the above-mentioned romance (a work of the reign of Henry III.) says was the name given to the whole place in Joceas’s time. Mr. Wright, however (Hist. Ludlow, pp. 13, 34), thinks that Dinham was the original name, afterwards superseded by Ludlow; in which case Joceas becomes simply “Joceas of Dinham,” with a surname derived not from a foreign birthplace, but from an English fief.