Släkthistoria för Davenant
Davenant Vad efternamn betyder
perhaps a variant of Avenant (see Avent) to which the Old French preposition de d' was prefixed to give it the appearance of a Norman locative name and thus the status that such names gave Anglo-Norman lords. The variation is possibly explicit much later in Caleb Avenant alias D'elvenant of Shelsley Walsh Worcs 1709 in PROB 11 . The spelling D'Avenant is frequent in the 18th century.
Källa: The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, 2016
