Complex sentence: The last name, "Foy," may be a reference to faith; this is an old romance name, as for example Edmund Spenser's pagan knight Sansfoy in "The Faerie Queene".
Split into simpler sentences: The last name, "Foy", may be a reference to faith. This is an old romance name, as for example Edmund Spenser's pagan knight Sansfoy in "The Faerie Queene".