Mechthild
Mechthild is a female given name .
origin
Mechthild is an old form of the given name Mathilde . The name is made up of the two Old High German nouns maht "power, strength, strength" and hiltia "fight" and means something like "powerful fight, mighty in fight, mighty fighter".
variants
Name days
Well-known namesake
- Mathilde von Andechs (mostly Mechthild von Dießen ; ~ 1125–1160), Augustinian choirwoman and abbess von Edelstetten
- Mechthild II of Anhalt (1392–1463) from the Ascanian family; Abbess of the free secular monastery of Gernrode and Frose
- Mechthild Bach , German singer
- Mechthild Bach (1949–2011), German internist
- Mechthild von Baden († 1258), Countess of Württemberg
- Mechthild von Bayern (1532–1565), wife of Margrave Philibert of Bavaria
- Mechthild von Bienburg (* before 1223, † after 1265), abbess of the free worldly Buchau women's monastery in today's Bad Buchau am Federsee
- Mechthild von Gießen (* around 1155, † after 1203), Countess of Gießen
- Mechthild Großmann (* 1948), German actress, dancer and speaker
- Mechthild von Hackeborn (1241–1299), Cistercian and Christian mystic
- Mechthild Heil (* 1961), German politician
- Mechthild von Hessen (1490–1558) , Countess of Tecklenburg-Schwerin
- Mechthild von Holstein (1220 / 1225–1288), wife of the Danish King Abel
- Mechthild von Magdeburg (1208 / 1210–1282), important mystic
- Mechthild von der Pfalz (1419–1482), wife of Count Ludwig I of Württemberg
- Mechthild Podzeit-Lütjen (* 1955), German and Austrian writer
- Mechthild Ross-Luttmann (* 1958), German politician
- Mechthild II von Wohldenberg († 1316), from 1305 to 1316 abbess of the Gandersheim monastery