Romilda (first name)
Romilda , of which there are the variants Romilde and Rumilde, is a female given name.
The name is made up of two old high German words: "hruom", which stands for fame or honor, and "hiltja", which means fight. Romilda means something to be said for a laudable fighter . Romilda stands for heroine ( eroina ) in Italian and is derived from the Lombard Romphilde. Name day in Italy is celebrated on November 1st.
Personalities
- Romilda, Duchess of Friuli (* around 570, † 610, Cividale del Friuli).
useful information
- Romilda is the heroine in Georg Friedrich Handel's opera Serse .
- Romilda Vane is a minor character in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince .
- Sophia Loren's mother was called Romilda Villani.
swell
- ↑ a b Bruno W. Häuptli: ROMILDA, Duchess of Friuli. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 1192-1195.