Edelgard

Edelgard is an old German, two-part, female given name .

Origin and meaning

The name is the modern form of the name Adalgard, which was used in old German times. The first component is derived from Old High German adal ("noble, distinguished, descent"). The second comes from Germanic and means "protection".

variants

Adalgard, Edelgart, Ethelgard

Name bearers

• Edelgard Bulmahn (* 1951), German politician (SPD)
• Edelgard Huber von Gersdorff (1905–2018), German age record holder
• Edelgard Wendorf (* 1944), German handball trainer
• Edelgard von Hresvelg, playable character from the video game Fire Emblem: Three Houses

swell

• Günther Drosdowski: Duden lexicon of first names: origin, meaning and use of several thousand first names , Bibliographisches Institut (Dudenverlag), Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1974, (page 66)

Web links

Wiktionary: Edelgard  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations