Coltrane
A short-spanned character cat of the simpsons... I found there is a musician with this surname... But what does it means?
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Having in mind what i read about the Coulthards (and Coltharts, etc), that they're probably from a French village called Coutherde or Couherde, i've looked at Google.com and found this:

Spouse: de Fiennes, William {I16691}
b. ABT. 1240 Wendover, Buckinghamshire
d. 11 JUL 1302 Battle of Coutrain , West Flanders
Gender: Male

Apparently there's a Belgian village in the province of West-Flanders called Coutrain. Maybe a thought, though nothing confirms my idea, but to be precise i couldn't find any idea about Coltrane, except for one babyname site saying it was a version of Colt (yeah, sure, and where does the ending suddenly come from?). Never trust babyname sites, mind you.

Another, different Coutrain:
+ Deneau, Rene b. ABT. 1662 Coutrain, La Ferte Gauche, Champagne, France - d. ABT. 1707 - Marriage: 1667 Beaubassin, Acadia, (Amherst, Nova Soctia)

And another:
ID: I333878
* Name: Blanche De Brienne
* Sex: F
* Birth: ABT 1240 in Coutrain, Mynn, France
* Death: 1302
* Reference Number: 333878

Same person with her husband, who died in the Battle of Courtain:
260057790. William De Fiennes was born in 1245 in Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England. He died on 11 Jul 1302 in Battle Of Coutrain, Flandre, Occidental, Belgium. He married Blanche De Brienne in 1269 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England. [Parents]

260057791. Blanche De Brienne was born in Courtrain, Mynn, France. She died in 1302. [Parents]

Important note: see how in this case the Coutrain changed into Courtrain?

Coutrain is a surname in this database:
www.escndatabase.com/c.htm

i found out that Coutrain, Mynn is Courtrain, Mayenne, France

now i've found out that the Battle of Coutrain is the Battle of Coutrai. Coutrai is the French name of Kortrijk, a Belgian city. In a way, those old genealogy registers where under influence of changes regarding names.

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Coltran/Coltrane is a surname of South-West Scotland. In its earliest recorded form it was Acoltrain, one of several Galloway surnames which had an initial A, now discarded. One theory about this is that the A is the same as the Welsh Ap ("son"), another that it is the same as the old Irish Ua ("grandson", now O). I subscribe to the latter theory. I suspect that Acoltrain was originally the Irish surname O Coltarain. There are lots of Irish names in Galloway, that part of Scotland closest to Ireland. In Ireland O Coltarain either died out or was changed to Colter and Coulter. As far as the meaning is concerned, O Coltarain denotes descent from a man named Coltaran. This given name is made up of the word coltar plus a diminutive ending. In modern Irish coltar means the coulter, or cutting part of a plough. I'm not at all sure that this is the meaning here.
As Lisa Simpson plays the tenor sax I'm sure the cat must have been named after the late John Coltrane, one of the most famous tenor saxophonists in the Jazz genre. Is this the musician?
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Another spelling is: Coltrain
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Yep... That's the musician... Probably Groening or his team took the name inspired on him... Thanks both... :D
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