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Dictionary of Medieval Names
from European Sources

Peregrine m. Latin peregrinus 'foreign, strange, alien; pilgrim'.

The name of a 2nd C martyr and a 3rd C saint.

Estonia
Middle Low German
1376 Pelegrym BbRT p. 335; 1399 Pelegrym ibid. p. 342
Germany
Early New High German
1404 Pilgreim (nom) mairhofer DCLXXVII; 1407 Pilgriem (nom) ibid. DCLXXXII
Italy
Latin
1235 Pellegrinus (nom) TirNot1 1a; 1236 Pellegrini (gen) ibid. 8, Pellegrino (abl) ibid. 8, Pellegrinus (nom) ibid. 7; 1265x1339 Piligrini (gen) BBC-Berg 143; 1324 Peregrinus (nom) DSF p. 46, 3709; 1326 Pellegrini (gen) Friuli-14thC no. 446, Peregrino (abl) ibid. no. 439; 1376 Pelegri (gen) DouGen1 p. 259
Spain
Catalan
1510 Pelegri valencia1510 1052
Cite as: S.L. Uckelman. "Peregrine". In S.L. Uckelman, ed. The Dictionary of Medieval Names from European Sources, Edition 2016, no. 1. http://dmnes.org/2016/1/name/Peregrine.