Definition of "Cnut" and family of the house of Nott, meaning "Noble Title".

The controversy of those who contend that William Cnut, Grandson of Queen Emma, was not considered any longer to be Royal is based upon a lack of knowledge of the common use made of titular designations by the ancient English, Celts, French, Scandinavian and Germanic practices. There were no surnames, there were titles, i.e. the Earl William "Marshall", who received this title from his father "John the Marshall", who was a trusted Knight of Norman ancestry. There is a major reason why William Cnut preserved the name of his father, the Danish and English King Hartheknutr.

This paper on the definition of Cnut meaning without any doubt to be plainly "Noble Title", should help unlock the mystery of the Nott family, their highest Noble inheritance, their Knight Commader coat of arms, as directly inherited from the highest nobility of England: Dux Ælfwald son of Æthelstan Half-King (East Anglia). In Domesday book, the records of King Athelstan in 966 confirming his 1,200 acres of Kineton, originally spelt Cynton, which could be translated as Cyn, meaning king and ton, meaning manor (King's Manor). These lands went to his heir, King Edward the Confessor, and then passed to the next rightful inheritor, William Cnut(Nott), Grandson of Queen Emma, the illegitimate son of Hartheknutr. Conspiracy kept him from the throne and he resorted to peaceful protest, rather than taking his right by force and violence. He maintained the title in the family name and passed it down to his heirs before surnames began, and he took up the highest calling, the works of the priesthood. He was known as "William Nutte the Church builder" as recorded in the Northampshire Pipe Rolls dated 1181. He (or his son) also served as one of the Captains in the Northern invasion of Ireland under William Marshall.

German dictionaries claim to hold the origination of the name "Knut" exclusive to Germany, from the German word "Chnot", and their dictionaries and lexicons describe the name's true meaning.

In Swedish, the name means "Clan" or "Family". While this also appears to be noble, the original German meaning must be given higher precedence. Those who formed the Swedish and Danish languages, the Priests, Nobles and Monarchs were all baptized and educated in Germany, so the German definition, and their claim of origination cannot be ignored. Geographic and cultural use were of course key considerations, before all the lexicons and dictionaries of Germany made this their final conclusion.

 Many do not know these facts simply because they do not read German. Therefore, by this writing the Christ's Assembly makes this knowledge available to the world in the English language.

In most German dictionaries that cite this name, it reads:

Knut (alt-deutsch.) chnot=adelig

English Translation: Old German word for "Noble", "Titled", "Aristocratic".

Being that the Danish Monarchs such as Knut the Great were baptized in Germany, it is irresponsible for some to quickly say they didn't know the meaning of this word in Denmark. The father of Knut, King Bluetooth, full well understood the name and mark, as did his immediate predacessors, such as his Grandson HarthaCnut and his illegitimate son William Nutt who inherited the lands of the original royal family of England. Even today in Germany this name is fully understood to denote title.

German Lexikon Definition:

Varianten

• Knud
• Knudt
• Knuth
• Kanut
• Canut
• englisch: Canute
• finnisch: Knutti
• dänisch: Knød

Herkunft und Bedeutung

Knut ist als Name seit dem Mittelalter im gesamten norddeutschen und nordischen Sprachgebiet verbreitet. Er stammt aus dem Althochdeutschen. Die Bedeutung des Namens ist nicht eindeutig, da es folgende zwei Möglichkeiten gibt: Der Name leitet sich entweder von chnot („frei“, „adelig“) oder von chnuz („waghalsig“, „vermessen“) ab. Ein weiterer Ursprung kann das altschwedische Wort knot sein, das „Knoten“ bedeutete, und im weiteren Sinne „Familiengruppe“.

Namenstag

• 7. Januar: Hl. Knud Lavard
• 10. Juli: Knut IV. der Heilige

Bekannte Namensträger

Herrscher mit dem Namen Knut

• Knut I., König von Dänemark (um 934)
• Knut II. der Große, König von England (1016–1035), Dänemark (1019–1035) und Norwegen (1028–1035)
• Knut III. der Harte, auch Hardiknut genannt, König von Dänemark (1035–1042) und England (1035–1037, 1040–1042)
• Knut IV. der Heilige, König von Dänemark (1080–1086)
• Knud Lavard, Herzog von Schleswig
• Knut I., auch Knut Eriksson genannt, König von Schweden (1167–1196)

• Knut II., König von Schweden (1229–1234)

Excerpt source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_(Vorname) 

The house name is most widely accepted to be from the Danish name "Knut", it derives from the old Scandinavic name "chnout" which itself derives from old German (linuistic: Altdeutsch) "chnot, chun" which derives from Germanic "chruod" . The meaning is always the same: noble! The German and English words Koenig resp. King are deriving from the same Germanic principal form.

1911 ENCYCLOPEDIA on the term "Tsar or Czar":

"In its origin the word tsar seems to have connoted the same as imperator, being identical with the German Kaiser in its derivation from the Latin Caesar. In the old Slavonic Scriptures the Greek 1 3aatXei's is always translated tsar, and this title was also given to the Roman Emperor. The old Russian title for a sovereign was knyaz, prince, or veliky knyaz, grand prince."

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