Lombárd

Rev Patrick Woulfe
1923

LOMBÁRD—XII—Lombard, Lumbard; Norman 'le Lombard,' i.e., native of Lombardy, but later 'lombard' came to mean a banker, money-lender, or pawnbroker. There were old and respectable merchant families of the name in Cork, Waterford and Buttevant. At the beginning of the 17th century, Peter Lombard was Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland.

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