The surname Stamp is an anglicized derivative of the locational nom de famille, d'Étampes,[1] a Sippe (English: clan) name which corresponded to inhabitants of the early 7th-century region of Étampes, a commune still in existence and situated south-southwest of Paris, France.
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The d'Étampes Sippe consisted primarily of Germanic peoples who settled in northern Gaul during the Völkerwanderung of the late 5th century.
Under William I, Duke of Normandy, a large portion of the d'Étampes Sippe was dispatched to England during the Norman Conquest in 1066.[2]
The mid-12th-century German colonization of the Siebenbürgen region (kartewanderung) found members of the d'Étampes Sippe tasked with developing and defending the southeastern border of the Kingdom of Hungary[3] - actions integral to the emergence of the Siebenbürger Sachsen, or Transylvanian Saxons,[4][5] who were afforded provisional autonomy under the Diploma Andreanum of 1224.[6][7] In accordance with the official recognition of the Augsburg Confession by the Siebenbürgen synod in 1572, this d'Étampes sept was converted in its entirety from Roman Catholicism to Lutheranism.[8]
The earliest known alteration of the d'Étampes name on English record dates to 1191, with the Pipe Rolls of the City of London listing one John de Stampes. A German record from Reutlingen, dated May 1294, bears the name of Eberhard Stamph von Söllingen.[9] Sir Thomas Stampe appears as the first known bearer of a more anglicized version of the Sippe name in England, evidenced on the Feet of Fines for Essex in 1424; a Thomas Stamp (note the dropped terminal "e") is also listed as father on a recovered christening record for Abigale Stamp, dated 7 April 1588 in Colchester, Essex.[10] One may also note the contemporary surname of Johann Stamp of Mortesdorf, Süd-Siebenbürgen on extant vital records for two of his sons, Michael Stamp (b 1682 / d 1742) and Andreas Stamp (b 1684 / d 1769).
The Château d'Étampes housed the royal seat of Robert II of France at the start of the 11th century.
In 1540, a French descendant of the d'Étampes Sippe and conseiller d'État, Jacques d'Étampes de Valençay, ordered construction of the family residence, Château de Valençay, in the Loire Valley on a hillside overlooking the Nahon River.
