Sancho

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Sancho is a medieval male personal name common in the Spanish and Portuguese language areas .

history

The historically earliest occurrence of the name is usually localized in the Basque- speaking area. Some of the oldest known bearers of names come from the La Rioja region . The origin is probably in Roman times , known is the Latin form of the name Sanctius , which is equated with Sancho. It probably goes back to the name of the Roman god Sancus , who came to the Ibero-Romanic languages via vulgar Latin forms ( Sauco, Sanco ) . In the Middle Ages the name spread rapidly in all Christian empires of the Pyrenees Peninsula . In terms of folk etymology , it is often traced back to the Spanish word santo , Latin sanctus (" holy ").

The very common Spanish surname Sánchez is derived as a patronymic formation from the first name Sancho, which was popular in the Middle Ages .

The feminine form of the name is Sancha and, with its Latin predecessor forms ( Sanctia, Sancia, Santia ), it is very often documented in medieval documents parallel to the male first name. For example, in Galicia in the 12th and 13th centuries , Sancha was one of the eight most common female names mentioned in the sources.

name day

As a name day is June 5th committed, the Memorial of St. Sanctius ( Sancius, Sancio, Sanzio, Sancho ), one from Albi coming and the Cordovan martyrs calculated Christian soldiers of the Emir of Córdoba Abd ar-Rahman II. , Which the short Passio des Eulogius in whose Documentum martyriale , according to 841 , was executed in Corduba in Andalusia for blasphemy .

Name bearer

Ruler

Fictional characters

family name

literature

  • Rafael Lapesa : Sobre el origen de Sancho. In: Dieter Kremer (Ed.): Homenagem a Joseph M. Piel por ocasião do seu 85.º aniversário (Festschrift for Joseph M. Piel ). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1988, pp. 79-83.
    Released in: Rafael Lapesa, Juan R. Lodares (arr.): Léxico e Historia. Volume I: Palabras. Istmo, Madrid 1992, pp. 199-205.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joaquín Gorrochategui: Basque Names. In: Ernst Eichler , Gerold Hilty , Heinrich Löffler , Hugo Steger , Ladislav Zgusta : Name research. An international handbook on onomastics , 1st part (= handbooks on linguistics and communication studies , volume 11.1). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1995, pp. 747–756 (here: p. 748 in the Google book search) (English).
  2. ^ Sancho in Heráldica Valenciana. Instituto de Historia y Heráldica Familiar, in: Levante-EMV , accessed November 2019 (Spanish).
  3. ^ Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo: Antroponimia medieval galega (see VIII – XII). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-484-55512-2 , p. 84; 404 (Galegic, limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ^ Entry June 5th in the Ecumenical Saint Lexicon . More precisely: Kenneth Baxter Wolf: Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1988. ISBN 978-0-521-34416-6 (Reprint 2014: ISBN 978-1-107-63481-7 ), p. 32 f. ( online ).