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 Eckart is a German surname, and may refer to: * Anselm Eckart (1721–1809), German Jesuit missionary * Carl Eckart * Dennis E. Eckart (born 1950), American lawyer, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives * Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923) ...

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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 Ekkehard I (; died 14 January 973), called ''Major'' or ''Senex'' (the Elder), was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall. He was of noble birth, of the Jonschwyl family in Toggenburg, and was educated in the monastery of St. Gall. After joining the B ...

(died 973) *

Ekkehard II Ekkehard II (died 23 April 990), called ''Palatinus'' ("the Courtier"), was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall who became known for his sequence poetry. Life Ekkehard was probably born in the Saint Gall area; he and his cousin Ekkehard III were n ...

(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 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 fo ...

(died 1084), abbot of Huysburg Abbey *

Ekkehard of Aura Ekkehard of Aura (; born ''c.'' 1080, died 20 February 1126) was the first Abbot of Aura (a monastery founded by Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, on the Franconian Saale river, near Bad Kissingen, Bavaria) from 1108. It is thought that Ekkehard was a mem ...

(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 } Eckhard Christian (1 December 1907 – 3 January 1985) was a Luftwaffe officer in World War II, and rose to the rank of ''Generalmajor''. On 2 February 1943, he married Gerda Daranowski who was one of Adolf Hitler's private secretaries during ...

(1907-1985), Luftwaffe officer *

Ekkehard von Kuenssberg Ekkehard von Kuenssberg CBE (; 17 December 1913 – 27 December 2000) was a German-born physician who made his career in Scotland. He was chairman and later president of the Royal College of General Practitioners and was appointed as its Wolfso ...

(1913–2000), German doctor *

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(b. 1941), businessman

Middle Ages

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