Adelheid
Adelheid is a feminine given name .
Origin and meaning
From Old High German ( Latinized ) Adalheidis from adal "noble" and uniform "shape" (meaning "variety, type").
Name days
Name day is the
- February 5th : St. Adelheid von Vilich (Catholic)
- October 17th : St. Adelheid
- December 16 : St. Adelheid of Burgundy (Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox)
variants
- Adelheidis, Alheydis, Adelheide
- Adela , Adelaide , Adélaïde , Adele , Adeley , Adell, Adelina , Adeline , Adelita , Adely
- Alice , Alicia , Alicja , Alissa , Alyssa , Alysha , Aleida , Alke , Ahlheit , Alix (French)
- Dele
- Elke , Elka , Ethel
- Hede , Heide , Heidi , Heidy ,
- Thalke , Talke , Thalia, Talia , Tale, Talea , Taleke
Name bearers
- Adelheid von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1800–1820), Princess of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Hereditary Princess of Lübeck and Princess of Holstein-Oldenburg
- Adelheid von Anjou († 1026), French noblewoman from the house of the Counts of Anjou
- Adelheid of Aquitaine (945–1004), French queen and ancestral mother of the Capetians
- Adelheid von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (1285-1320), Queen of Bohemia by marriage
- Adelheid von Burgau , wife of Count Rudolf II von Montfort-Sargans
- Adelheid of Burgundy (931–999), Holy Roman Empress, saint
- Adelheid von Enzberg († 1120), wife of Count Heinrich von Tübingen and was one of the founders of the Blaubeuren monastery
- Adelheid von Gorizia († 1291), noblewoman
- Adelheid von Holland (* around 1230, † 1284), regent of the counties of Holland and Zeeland and, by marriage, Countess of Hainaut
- Adelheid von Katzenelnbogen († 1288), Countess of Nassau and Countess of Katzenelnbogen
- Adelheid von Kiev (approx. 1067 / 1070–1109), second wife of Emperor Heinrich IV
- Adelheid von Kitzingen († 750), founder of the Benedictine convent Kitzingen, saint, see under Hadeloga von Kitzingen
- Adelheid von Löwen († 1151), second wife of the English King Heinrich I.
- Adelheid von Markdorf († 1303), abbess of the Buchau women's monastery
- Adelheid von Frontenhausen († 1105), founder of the Baumburg monastery
- Adelheid von Murkart († 1224) Abbess in Fraumünster Zurich from 1222 to 1224
- Adelheid von Plassenberg († 1460), German abbess
- Adelheid von Savona (1072–1118), regent of Sicily
- Adelheid of Swabia († 1090), Queen of Hungary
- Adelheid of Thuringia (abbess) , noblewoman and abbess
- Adelheid von Tours , wife of Conrad of Auxerre and Roberts the Brave
- Adelheid von Tübingen (around 1152) (* around 1120) was one of the founders of the Blaubeuren monastery
- Adelheid of Turin († 1079), daughter of Count Otto of Savoy
- Adelheid von Waldeck , Countess of Lippe
- Adelheid von Weilheim , founder of the monastery
- Adelheid von Vilich (approx. 970-1015 / 1018), abbess
- Adelheid I (Quedlinburg) (977-1044), Abbess of Quedlinburg, daughter of Emperor Otto II.
- Adelheid II (Gandersheim) (1045-1096), abbess
- Adelheid II. Von Büren († 1220) Abbess in Gernrode
- Adelheid IV. Von Sommerschenburg (* around 1130–1184), Abbess von Gandersheim (and from 1160/61 Adelheid III. Abbess in Quedlinburg)
- Adelheid (around 1230), first abbess known by name of the Benedictine convent of St. Johann in Müstair
- Adelheid Marie von Anhalt-Dessau (1833–1916), Princess of Anhalt-Dessau and by marriage Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- Adelheid zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1875–1971), Princess of Schaumburg-Lippe, by marriage to the Duchess of Saxony-Altenburg
- Adelheid Arndt (* 1952), German actress
- Adelheid von Bennigsen (1861–1938), women's rights activist and social worker
- Adelheid Biesecker (* 1942), German economist
- Adelheid Dahimène (1956–2010), Austrian writer
- Adelheid Langmann (1306–1375), nun and mystic in the Dominican convent Engelthal near Nuremberg
- Adelheid Morath (* 1984), German cyclist in the field of cross-country mountain biking (CC)
- Adelheid Poninska (1804–1881), German social reformer and urban planner
- Adelheid Popp (1869–1939), Austrian women's rights activist
- Adelheid Schulz (* 1955) German terrorist
- Adelheid Seeck (1912–1973), German actress
- Adelheid Theil (* 1969), German actress
- Adelheid Tröscher (* 1939), German politician (SPD)
Web links
Wiktionary: Adelheid - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beate Varnhorn: Bertelsmann, The large lexicon of first names . Wissen-Media-Verlag, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07694-4 , p. 13 ( full text in Google Book Search).