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champion Name Meaning and History
English (of Norman origin) and French: status name for a
professional champion, especially an agent employed to represent one
of the parties in a trial by combat, a method of settling disputes
current in the Middle Ages. The word comes from Old French
champion, campion (Late Latin campio, genitive
campionis, a derivative of campus ‘plain’, ‘field of
battle’). Compare Campion, Kemp.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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