174 Note on the name of Drew. 
in his Etymology,! under the proper name of Drew, traces it to 
Drogo, but, it is noticeable, that he hesitates whether it should not 
rather be derived from the Anglo-Saxon dry a druid or magician. 
As in early English, Drogo and Drew appear synonymous, so in 
the Norman-French of the same period, are Drogo and Dreux. 
This last name Dreux, that of a place in France near Chartres, 
so called, as conjectured, from the Druids, is supposed to have been 
the site of the “locus consecratus,” or temple “in finibus Carnutum,” 
alluded to by Cesar, where was held the annual assembly of the 
Druids for the whole of Gaul.2 That the name was in common 
use among the Normans, as a personal appellation, a reference to 
the Anglo-Norman history of Ordericus Vitalis is sufficient to shew. 
Ordericus refers to at least four persons of the name of Drogo. The 
first is Drogo, Archbishop of Metz, the son of the Emperor 
Charlemagne, who is mentioned under the year 840.° The next is 
Drogo, also called Dreux, Count of the Vexin, who died about 
1035, whilst on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and who was likewise 
descended from Charlemagne. A third Drogo, otherwise Dreux, 
was of the celebrated Norman family of Hauteville, one of the 
twelve sons of Tancred de Hauteville, who conquered the south of 
Italy in the early part of the 11th century; this conquest, under 
the fourth brother, Robert Guiscard, embracing at a subsequent 
period the whole of Sicily. The eldest brother William had 
assumed the title of Count of Apulia in 1043, in which he was 
succeeded by his brother Drogo or Dreux in 1046.° The fourth of 
the name is Drogo, called indiscriminately Dreux, the son of a 
Norman baron, Geoffrey de Neuf-marché, who became a monk and 
had great influence, in ecclesiastical affairs, at the court of William, 
about the time of the conquest.® 
1 “ Etymologicon,” 1671, Onomasticon, sub voc Dru. Mr. Lower, in his 
‘Essay on English Surnames,” 1849, chap. 9, pp. 152. 167, treats of Drogo 
and Drew as identical. 
2°B. G. 1.°6, ¢. 18. 3 Ordericus, Lib. 1, ¢. 34. 
4 Tbid, Lib. 3, ¢. 8. Lib. 7, ¢. 14. 
5 Ibid, Lib. 3,¢. 3. Lib. 8,¢.7. See Gibbon, Chapter 56, 
6 Ordericus, Lib. 5, cap. 12, Lib. 6, ¢. 4. Lib. 6, ¢. 4, and 8. 
