Page

The Tribe of Page represented here by Lord Ronald, Barony of Banwald & Seneschal of Page. During that dark period of history known as the Middle Ages, the name of Page was first used in France. While the patronymic and metronymic surnames, which are derived from the name of the father and mother respectively, are the most common form of a hereditary surname in France, occupational surnames also emerged during the late Middle Ages. The surname Page was an occupational name for a young servant to a nobleman who was in the first stage of training for knighthood. Such a servant was known in Old French as a page.