Luitgard is a German female name.
Origin
The name comes from
Old High German
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There is no standardised or supra-regional form of German at this period, and Old High ...
and means "
emaleguardian of the people" (German: ''Beschützerin des Volks''). This derives, in its older form, ''Liutgard'', from ''liut'' which means "people" (Modern German: ''Leute''), "member of a people",
[Entry ''LEUTE, pl. homines'' in Grimm: '' Deutsches Wörterbuch'' (online]
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. and ''gard'' which means "protection" or "guardianship", from which the German word ''Garten'' and the English word "garden" are also derived.
Name day
Its
name day
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is 16 October, the same date as that of the Blessed
Luitgard of Wittichen.
Variants
* Luitgart, Luitgardt, Lutgard, Lutgaarde, Lutgart, Liutgard, Liutgart, Liudgard
Notable bearers of the name
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Luitgard (died 4 June 800), last of the five wives of Charlemagne
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Liutgard of Beutelsbach, benefactress of Hirsau Abbey and sister of
Conrad I of Württemberg
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Liutgard of Saxony (died 885), wife of the King of East Francia, Louis the Younger
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Liutgard of Saxony (died 953)
Liutgarde of Saxony (932 – 18 November 953), a member of the Ottonian dynasty, was Duchess of Lorraine from 947 until her death by her marriage with Duke Conrad the Red. She and Conrad became progenitors of the Salian dynasty.
Life
Liutgarde ...
, daughter of the Emperor Otto I's first marriage, who married Duke Conrad of Lorraine in 947
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Lutgardis of Luxemburg (c. 955 – c. 1005), wife of Arnulf, Count of Holland
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Luitgard of Swabia (died 1146), daughter of
Frederick II of Swabia
Frederick II (1090 – 6 April 1147), called the One-Eyed, was Duke of Swabia from 1105 until his death, the second from the Hohenstaufen dynasty. His younger brother Conrad was elected King of the Romans in 1138.
Life Early career
Frederic ...
and
Agnes of Saarbrücken, married Conrad I of Meissen in 1119
* Luitgart (died after 1150), daughter of Count
Frederick I of Zollern, nun in Zwiefalten
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Lutgard of Salzwedel
Lutgard of Salzwedel or ''Liutgard/Luitgard of Stade'', (b. , murdered 1152) was Queen of Denmark as the wife of King Eric III.
Life
Lutgard was born to Richardis, Countess of Sponheim-Lavanttal, and Count Rudolf I of Stade and Ditmarsh (d. 112 ...
(died 1152), wife of Eric III, King of Denmark
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Lutgard of Tongern (1182–1246), Flemish mystic
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Luitgard of Tübingen (born c. 1240; died 1309),
Countess Palatine of Tübingen
* Liutgart of Tübingen, wife of Burkhard V (died 1318), Count of Nagold-Wildberg,
House of Hohenberg
The House of Hohenberg is an Austrian and Czech noble family that descends from Countess Sophie Chotek (1868–1914), who in 1900 married Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Este (1863–1914), the heir presumptive to the throne of ...
* Blessed
Luitgard of Wittichen (1291–1348), German nun, mystic and founder of Wittichen Abbey
References
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