Briant, for Breaunt, Breant, or Breante, near Havre. Fulco de Breante, or De Beent, England, temp. Henry VIII. (Roger Wendover.)
Brice, from St. Brice, near Avranches, Normandy. Robert de St. Brice, Normandy, 1180.
Brickdale, from Briquedale, Normandy. The derivation of the name from "Brickdele, Lancashire," is doubted, on the apparently sufficient ground that there is no such place.
Bride, or St. Bride, or St. Bridget. Vide Bridgett.
Bridge, or De Ponte, Normandy, 1180; England about the same time. Bridges, 1328, Middlesex.
Bridgett, for Brichet. Vide Briett.
Brient, for Brent or Briant.
Brier. Vide Bryer.
Briett. Occurs in Normandy, 1180. Ralph de Brecet, England, 1272.