Nolasco

Nolasco is a surname of French origin.

The first member of the Nolasco family was Guillaume de Nolasque, a Norman noble who participated in the siege of Nola, in southern Italy, in the eleventh century. Legend has it that, such was his bravery, that he was nicknamed by his fellows "Nolasque" or "Nolasc", which means, in the Italian-Norman medieval dialect, "the man of Nola". Guillaume later returned to Normandy and built the Nolasque castle, in Cotentin. He was the husband of Oremburge, a daughter of Serlo I of Hauteville, and had three sons: Geoffroy (1st sire of Vignats), Nicholas (canon in Rouen) and Roger (who stayed in Toulouse, and was the ancestor of saint Peter Nolasco).