Kunigunde
Kunigunde (also Kunigunda , short forms Kuniza , Chuniza , Cuniza , Kunne ) is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name is an old Germanic name based on two words: kunni (" clan ") and gund ("fight"). Kunigunde was a popular first name in the Middle Ages, especially in aristocratic circles.
name day
- March 3rd - Memorial Day of Holy Empress Kunigunde
- June 16 - Feast day of Saint Kunigunde in Rapperswil
Well-known namesake
A name
- Kunigunde von Rapperswil , 4th century, saint; to the legend, a companion of the Holy Ursula from Cologne have been
- Kunigunde (granddaughter of Ludwig the Stammler) , wife of Wigerich and Richwin von Verdun
- Kunigunde of Luxembourg (980-1033), her granddaughter, wife of Emperor Heinrich II. , Saint of the Catholic Church
- Kunigunde von Altdorf (* around 1020, † 1054), ancestor of the younger Welfen (Welfen-d'Este)
- Kunigunde von Weimar-Orlamünde (~ 1055– ~ 1117), daughter of Otto I von Meißen, wife of Prince Jaropolk, Count Kuno von Northeim and Count Wiprecht von Groitzsch
- Kunigunde von Bilstein (* around 1080; † 1138/1140), Countess von Gudensberg
- Kunigunde von Staufen (1202–1248), Queen of Bohemia
- Kunigunde von Habsburg (* 1230?), Sister of Rudolf von Habsburg , first married to the last Count of Küssenberg , from 1250 to Otto II. Von Ochsenstein
- Kunigunde von Halitsch (1261–1285), Queen of Bohemia
- Kunigunde of Bohemia (1265–1321), daughter of the Bohemian King Přemysl Otakar II, later abbess
- Kunigunde von Eisenberg , called Kunne, († 1290), from 1274 wife of Albrecht II (Meißen) and as such Margravine of Meißen and Landgravine of Thuringia
- Kunigunde von Orlamünde (* around 1303, † 1382), founder of the Himmelthron Monastery and its first abbess
- Kunigunde of Austria (1465–1520), Duchess of Bavaria
- Kunigunde of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1523–1558), Margravine of Baden
- Kunigunde Jakobäa von der Pfalz (1556–1586), Countess Palatinate of Simmern and, by marriage, Countess of Nassau-Dillenburg
- Maria Kunigunde of Saxony (1740–1826), princess abbess
First name
- Kunigunde Ansion (1863–1922), Austrian writer
- Kunigunde Fürst (* 1944), Austrian nun and former general superior of the Franciscan Sisters of Vöcklabruck
- Kunigunde Schwab (1910–1997), German communist politician, pacifist and resistance fighter against National Socialism
- Kunigunde Sterzl (* around 1544, † 1620), victim of the witch hunt in Eichstätt
- Kunigunde Tremel-Eggert (1889–1957), German writer
variants
- French : Cunégonde
- Italian : Cunegonda
- Dutch : Cunigonde
- Polish : Kinga
- Swedish : Kunigunda
- Spanish : Cunegunda
- Czech : Kunhuta
- Hungarian : Kinga
See also
- Kunigunde (asteroid)
- Kunigunde (district of Liebenburg )
- Kunibert
literature
- Friedrich Schneider, Kaspar Braun : Eduard and Kunigunde . In: Fliegende Blätter , Volume 1, 1845, Issue 5, p. 38 ( Wikisource )
Web links
Wiktionary: Kunigunde - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
