Ekkehard (and Eckardt, Eckard, Eckart, Eckhardt, Ekkehart) is a German given name. It is composed of the elements ''ekke'' "edge, blade; sword" and ''hart'' "brave; hardy". Variant forms include Eckard, Eckhard, Eckhart, Eckart. The

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

form of the name was ''Ecgheard'', possibly attested in the toponym

Eggerton Eggerton Hundred or Eggardon Hundred was a hundred (division), hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes: *Askerswell *Hooke, Dorset, Hooke *Long Bredy *Powerstock (part) *Winterbourne Abbas *Wraxall, Dorset, Wr ...

Middle Ages

It was the name of five monks of the

Abbey of Saint Gall The Abbey of Saint Gall () is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had er ...

from the tenth to the thirteenth century: * Ekkehard I (died 973) * Ekkehard II (died 990) * Ekkehard III *

Ekkehard IV Ekkehard IV ( 980 – c. 1056) was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall and the author of the ''Casus sancti Galli'' and ''Liber Benedictionum''. Life According to the testimony in his "Chronicle" (especially in view of his statement that he had hear ...

(died c. 1056) * Ekkehard V (died c. 1220) It was also the name of two

Margraves of Meissen This article lists the margraves of Meissen, a march and territorial state on the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire. History King Henry the Fowler, on his 928–29 campaign against the Slavic Glomacze tribes, had a fortress erected on ...

: * Eckard I (died 1002) * Eckard II (died 1046) Other notable people with that given name include: * Ekkehard of Huysburg (died 1084), abbot of Huysburg Abbey * Ekkehard of Aura (died 1126), chronicler and abbot of Aura Abbey *

Meister Eckhart Eckhart von Hochheim ( – ), commonly known as Meister Eckhart (), Master Eckhart or Eckehart, claimed original name Johannes Eckhart,

(died c. 1327), philosopher and mystic * Eckhard Christian (1907-1985), Luftwaffe officer * Ekkehard von Kuenssberg (1913–2000), German doctor * Eckhard Pfeiffer (b. 1941), businessman

Middle Ages

See also