NUGENT. Gerd, according to Salverte, is the ancient French \f ovd (jdi which, gentil is a diminutive form) signifyiug the pleasantness of a place or person ; and 7w, noe, non, or none, designates a low meadoAV which ig frequently inundated. No-gent or Nugent, he adds, is the name of many towns or villages built on the banks of a aiver in a pleasant position, such as Nogent-sur- Seine, Nogent-sur-Marne, &c. Essai. ii. 284. The family are a branch of the great house of Belesme, beiug descended from Fulke de Belesrae, Lord of Nogent le Rotrou, who accompanied William of Normandy and fought at the battle of Hastings. Some of his descendants assumed the surname of Nogent or Nugent, and two of them, Gilbert de Nugent and Hugh de Nugent, cousius, founded the uame in Ireland temp. Heury II., they having accompanied Henry de Lacj-'s expedition against that country. They settled in AVestmeath, on part of the

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