Geoffroy
Geoffroy is a male given name and family name .
origin
Geoffroy (with J instead of G , -o or -e instead -eo- , -i instead -y ) is an old French , especially in the Anglo-Norman common name on Germanic Gaufrid (name of variant Gautfrid by Gaut " Gote "and frid " Friede, Schutz ").
He was known in Latin as Galfredus , Galfridus (probably with the interpretation of -u- in Gaufrid as the vocalization of -l- ) and as God (e) fridus (equating with Gotfrid , from Germ. Goda "Gott" and frid ) Latinized and adapted as Geoffrey in English .
Name bearer
Surname or first name
- Geoffroy I. († 1080), Lord of Joinville, see Gottfried I. (Joinville)
- Geoffroy Ferréol (also Gottfried II. Ferréol ; † 1042/1045), Count of Gâtinais, see Gottfried II. (Gâtinais)
- Geoffroy de Vinsauf , English rhetorician, see Galfredus de Vino Salvo
- Geoffroy de Sergines (also Sargines ; around 1205–1269), French knight and regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
- Geoffroy de Brionne (called Geoffroy Crispin ; † probably 1015), Count of Eu
- Geoffroy de Charnay (also Geoffroy de Charney ; around 1251-1314), member of the Knights Templar
- Geoffroy de Charny (around 1300–1356), French knight, first verifiable owner of the Turin shroud
- Geoffroy de Donjon (Gottfried von Donjon and Duisson; † 1202), from 1193 to 1202 Grand Master of the Order of St. John
- Geoffroy de Montbray (also Geoffroy de Coutances , also Mowbray ; † 1093), Bishop of Coutances and advisor to Duke William II of Normandy
- Geoffroy de Paris (also Geoffroi de Paris, Geoffrey of Paris ; † around 1320), French chronicler
family name
- Claude Geoffroy (entrepreneur) , French seed trader
- Claude François Geoffroy (1729–1753), French chemist
- Claude-Joseph Geoffroy ( Geoffroy the Younger ; 1685–1752), French botanist, mycologist and pharmacist
- Éric Geoffroy (* 1956), French Arabist and Islamic scholar, Sufism researcher and Sufi
- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844), French zoologist
- Étienne François Geoffroy ( Geoffroy the Elder ; 1672–1731), French chemist
- Étienne Louis Geoffroy (1725–1810), French pharmacist and entomologist
- Gregory L. Geoffroy , American chemist and university president
- Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861), French zoologist and ethologist
- Jean Geoffroy (painter) (1853–1924), French painter and illustrator
- Jean Geoffroy (musician) (* 1960), French percussionist, marimba player and arranger
- Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy (1601–1675), French composer
- Jean-Baptiste Lislet Geoffroy (1755–1836), French astronomer, botanist and cartographer
- Jean-Marie Geoffroy (1813-1883), French actor
- Jean-Nicolas Geoffroy (1633–1694), French composer
- Julien Louis Geoffroy (1743-1814), French critic
- Louis Geoffroy (1803-1858), pseudonym of Louis-Napoléon Geoffroy-Château, author of one of the earliest works of counterfactual history
- Pedro Geoffroy Rivas (1908–1979), Salvadoran journalist, poet, anthropologist and linguist
- Pierre Geoffroy (1939–1994), French journalist, women's football coach and official
- Thierry Geoffroy (* 1961), Danish-French artist
See also
Remarks
- ^ A b David Rollason / Linda Rollason (eds.), The Durham Liber vitae: London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII , Volume II: Linguistic Commentary (by Elizabeth Briggs), British Library, London 2007, p. 54
- ^ Marie-Thérèse Morlet, Les noms de personne sur le territoire de l'ancienne Gaule du VIe au XIIe siècle, Volume I: Les noms issus du germanique continental et les créations gallo-germaniques , Éditions du CNRS, Paris 1968, 105a, 1997
- ^ A b Marie-Thérèse Morlet, Étude d'anthroponymie picarde: les noms de personne en Haute Picardie aux XIIIe, XIVe, XVe siècles , Musée de Picardie, Amiens 1967 (= Collection de la Société de Linguistique Picarde, 6), p. 90 (Geffroy), cf. P. 91 (Godefroy)