French (of Norman origin) and English: nickname for someone who
behaved like a marquis or an occupational name for a servant in the
household of a marquis, from Old Northern French marquis. The
title originally referred to the governor of a border territory (from
a Germanic word; compare March 1 and Mark 2). Marquises
did not form part of the original French feudal structure of nobility;
the title was first adopted by the Counts of Toulouse because of their
possessions in the border region beyond the Rhône.Scottish: shortened form of McMarquis (Gaelic Mac
Marcuis), a patronymic from the personal name Marcus (see
Mark).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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