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Rothschild is a habitational name from a house distinguished with a red sign ( Middle High German rōt "red" + schilt "sign", "shield"), the earliest recorded example dating from the 13th Century . The most notable family with this surname is the Mayer Amschel Rothschild Family . This famous banking ( N M Rothschild & Sons in London , De Rothschild Frères in Paris , S M Von Rothschild in Vienna ) and wine ( Château Mouton Rothschild , Château Lafite-Rothschild ) family took it from a house so marked in the Jewish quarter of Frankfurt-am-Main , but the name has also been adopted by many Ashkenazi Jews unrelated to the family such as:
In Britain the surname is normally pronounced "Roth-child". REFERENCES
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