Bracegirdle family

The Bracegirdle family were an important and populous family of Shire-hobbits, associated with the town or village of Hardbottle. The most famous of them was Lobelia Bracegirdle, who married Otho Sackville-Baggins.

Etymology

The Hobbitish name referred to their tendency to be fat and so to strain their belts, meaning "Tight-belt", or "Belt-tightener / strainer / stretcher". Bracegirdle is a real-life English surname. Tolkien had noted that it followed the type of Romance compounds with the verbal element first (instead of *"Girdlebracer").

Genealogy

Blanco Bracegirdle

Primrose Boffin b. S.R. 1265

Bruno S.R. 1313-S.R. 1410

Lobelia S.R. 1318-S.R. 1420

Otho Sackville-Baggins S.R. 1310-S.R. 1412

Hugo b. S.R. 1350

Hilda b. S.R. 1354

Seredic Brandybuck b. S.R. 1348

Lotho S.R. 1364-S.R. 1419

Doderic b. S.R. 1389

Ilberic b. S.R. 1391

Celandine b. S.R. 1394