Sumner

The Sumner Family represented here by Lord Samuel, Seneschal of Sumner. The saga of the name Sumner follows a line reaching back through history to the days of the Anglo-Saxon tribes in Britain. It was a name for someone who worked as a "summoner", a petty officer who cited and warned people to appear in court. The surname Sumner is derived from the Anglo-French words somenour and sumenour, which in turn were derived from the Old French words somoneor and semoneor, which mean summoner.