Gottfried

Gottfried
Pronunciation	German: [ˈɡɔtfʁiːt] ⓘ
Gender	masculine

Gottfried is a masculine German given name. It is derived from the Old High German name Godafrid, recorded since the 7th century. The name is composed of the elements god- (conflated from the etyma for 'God' and 'good', and possibly further conflated with gaut) and frid- ('peace, protection').^[2]

The German name was commonly hypocoristically abbreviated as Götz from the late medieval period. Götz and variants (including

German surnames. Gottfried is a common Jewish surname

as well.

Given name

The given name Gottfried became extremely frequent in Germany in the High Middle Ages, to the point of eclipsing most other names in God- (such as Godabert, Gotahard, Godohelm, Godomar, Goduin, Gotrat, Godulf, etc.) The name was Latinised as Godefridus. Medieval bearers of the name include:

Alemannia and Raetia
(d. 709)

Godefrid (d. c. 720), son of Drogo of Champagne, Frankish nobleman.

Godfrid Haraldsson (d. c. 856), Danish Viking leader

Godfrid, Duke of Frisia (d. 885), Danish Viking leader

Godfrey, Count Palatine of Lotharingia
(d. 949)

Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 964)

Geoffrey I "Greymantle", Count of Anjou (d. 987)

Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1008)

Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 1023)

Geoffrey II "the Hammer", Count of Anjou (d. 1060)

Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine
(d. 1069)

Godfrey of Bouillon (Godefridus Bullionensis, Godefroy de Bouillon, d. 1100), Frankish knight and leader of the First Crusade

Gottfried II of Raabs (d. c. 1137), burgrave of Nuremberg

Gottfried of Admont (d. 1165), Benedictine abbot

Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. c. 1181)

Geoffrey of Clairvaux (d. after 1188), Cistercian abbot

Godfrey of Viterbo (Godefridus Viterbiensis, c. 1120 – c. 1196)

Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200), medieval grammarian

Gottfried von Strassburg (d. 1210), author of a Middle High German courtly romance

Geoffrey of Villehardouin (d. c. 1212), knight and historian of the Fourth Crusade

Gottfried von Hohenlohe (1265–1310), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order

Gottfried von Hagenau (died 1313), poet, theologian and medical doctor from Alsace

A notable early modern bearer of the name is
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
(1646–1716).
Gottfried remains comparatively popular in Germany, ranking in the top 200 masculine given names.^[3]

Surname

Gesche Gottfried (1785–1831), German serial killer

John Gottfried (1917–1980), Canadian politician

Martha Joy Gottfried (1925–2014), American landscape painter

Robert W. Gottfried (1926–2007), American entrepreneur

Martin Gottfried (1933–2014), American critic, columnist and author

Dan Gottfried (1939– ), Israeli jazz pianist and lawyer

Paul Gottfried (1941– ), American political and philosophy professor

Richard Gottfried
(1947– ), American politician

Brian Gottfried (1952– ), American tennis player

Gilbert Gottfried (1955–2022), American comedian and actor

Mark Gottfried (1964– ), American basketball coach

Keith Gottfried (1966– ), American lawyer

See also

All pages with titles beginning with Gottfried

All pages with titles containing Gottfried

Galfrid

Jeffrey, Jeffries, Jeffers

Godred
/Guðrøðr

Gofraid/Goraidh

Godfrey, Godefroy

References

ISBN 9781405881180

^ Ernst Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch (1856), 533.

^ found to be at rank 135 with 11,738 entries in the German phonebook as of 2005 according to de:wikt:Verzeichnis:Deutsch/Liste der häufigsten männlichen Vornamen Deutschlands.

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[1] ISBN 9781405881180

[2] Ernst Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch (1856), 533.

[3] und to be at rank 135 with 11,738 entries in the German phonebook as of 2005 according to de:wikt:Verzeichnis:Deutsch/Liste der häufigsten männlichen Vornamen Deutschlands.

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