A Hobbit of the Bolger clan, whose marriage to Poppy Chubb-Baggins meant that she was the last of the Chubb-Bagginses to bear that family name. Filibert belonged to the same family as the better known Fredegar 'Fatty' Bolger, but while these two were clearly related in some way, no detailed family record for the Bolgers exists, at least in the canonical works. However, there are records in volume XII of The History of Middle-earth suggesting that they were distant cousins, both descended through several generations from one Adalgar Bolger.
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The name Filibert comes from Germanic filu (an intensifier meaning 'much' or 'great') and beraht ('bright', 'brightness'). Historically the name belonged to the Saint Filibert or Philibert of Jumièges, who lived during the seventh century. That saint's feast day happened to fall at a time of year when the nuts of the hazel tree ripen, and so hazel was sometimes known by a contracted version of the name, 'filbert'. That old name for hazel is used in The Lord of the Rings, though the fact that this connection runs through a historical figure means that it is doubtful that the Hobbits themselves would have recognised a similar connection in their own language.
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