Wazzo

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Wazzo - also as Wazo, Watzo, Watho, Wasso and in the diminutive form Wazelin, Wazelinus, Wazzelinus, Wazilo, Wazzilo, Watzilo, Wazili, Wassilo - is a medieval short form of various first names with "W". Probably related to the Slavic first names Vasilij, Vasiliy, Vasilko, Vassilko, Vasily, see Prince Wassilo (Vasylko) von Rostow (1208-1238), see currently Wassili Konstantinowitsch Blücher , Wassili Sergejewitsch Kalinnikow , Wassili Nikolajewitsch Karpow .

The same root of the name is also in the e-line: Wezzo, Wezo, Wetzo, Wetho, Wesso, reduced to Wezelin, Wezelinus, Wezzelinus, Wezilo, Wezzilo, Wetzilo, Wezili, Wessilo.

Original name

Possible first names emerge from the comparison with Tassilo - Tasso - Tagino von Taginbert and the places Taging , Taching , Tatzmannsdorf . The place Waging am See, for example, comes from a Graf Wago or Wagino. Wacho can also be used as a bridge name. A count Wago (805-820), son of Alaholfinger Berthold, is documented for the beginning of the 9th century when he and his brother Chadaloh I gave the monastery of St. Gallen as gifts. He has a son named Werinheri (Werner). This name is more common and probably more original than Warinheri (Warinus / Warnher). A Count Warinus / Guerin / Garnier of Paris († 677) is known as the father of St. Leutwin / Leodegar / Liutwin von Trier occupied. His brother is St. G (u) erin / Warin from Poitou . Warinus / Warino, in turn, is a diminutive of Warinbertus / Werinbert / Werenbert / Wuarimbertus u. verifiable. This Germanic first name, which means something like illustrious defender, appears initially more frequently in the spelling with "G" than G (u) aribertus, G (u) arivertus, G (u) arimbertus, G (u) arembertus, G (u ) alimbertus. The first evidence for the tendency to shorten is probably Goericus / Gueric / Guerin / Werin von Reims, who appears more frequently among the ancestors of the Bavarian Agilolfinger . Of course, Waribald / Garibald or Weribald, Warigand / Werigand (Wirigaud), Warinhart / Werinhart or Warenfrid / Werenfrid should also be considered in this context . Werner von Kyberg is also called Wetzilo .

Well-known namesake

Well-known namesake are:

  • Wazzo / Wazo / Waso / Watzo / Gazo / Guazo (I.), Bishop of Liège and Imperial Prince († 1048),
  • Wazzo / Wazo / Wazelin / Wazelinus / Wazzelinus (II.), Benedictine Abbot of St. Laurent and Bishop of Liège († 1158), also called Wazelin of Fexhe (see Investiture Controversy ).
  • Wazo, Bishop of Havelberg
  • Wezilo († 1088), Archbishop of Mainz
  • Werner / Wernher called Wezilo († 1078), Archbishop of Magdeburg
  • St. Wezelin (970-1015; also called Aquilinus)
  • Werigand / Wirigaud , called Wezzelin, Duke and Margrave of Istria-Friuli (around 967 to around 1051), married to Willibirg von Ebersberg

Legendary figure

In the saga "Wazelinus and Wiradis", the Salzburg version is of the children who loved each other dearly, but could not come together, whereby in the end both ended up in the monastery, one as abbess on the Nonnberg, the other as abbot of St. Peter. Both monasteries are located in Salzburg (see R. von Freisauff, Aus Salzburgs Sagenschatz, Salzburg 1914, p. 187 and Leander Petzoldt , Sagen aus Salzburg, Munich 1993, p. 259)

Watzmann

The name is probably also behind the mountain name Watzmann . Because here the legend speaks of a cruel king with his wife and seven children who were transformed into the mountain range. It is by no means improbable that the second syllable "man" does not come from "man" but from "magnus".

Surname

The surnames Watzl , Watzel etc. come from the diminutive Wazzilo / Wazilo / Watzilo .

Place names

Place names such as Wötzling , Watzling , Wetzendorf , Wetzelsdorf come from nobles called "Watzilo" or "Wetzilo".

Connection with Wezzo / Wesso

The considerations about the original name suggest a connection with the short name Wezzo / Wesso, as it is, for example, in Wessenberg or Wessobrunn . According to the legend, the latter derives its name from a servant of a noble Tassilo by the name of Wesso, who was the first to drink from a newly sprung spring.

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For Wazzo von Lüttich see Wilhelm Kohl:  WAZELIN V. LÜTTICH. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 13, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-072-7 , Sp. 393-394.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )