GOODMAN


The name Goodman may have come from the Old English: Gudmond; Gûd = battle, münd = protection. The name seems to have originated in Wales. It would be an appropriate name for a member of the King’s personal bodyguard. The personal bodyguard of Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1685, where his forces defeated and killed Richard III, the last Plantagenet King, and where he won his crown as Henry VII, were reported to be mostly Welsh.


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