Megingoz
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Megingoz (also Meingoz, Megingaud, Megingod, Meingaud, etc.) is a masculine given name of Germanic origin. It is a compound of roots meaning "strength" (cf. OHG magan) and Geats (cf. ON Gautar).[1] Latinizations include Megingaudus, Megimgausus, Maingaudus, Maingauldus, Magingotus, etc., whence forms like Mengold and Meingold.[2]
It may refer to:
- Megingoz of Würzburg (d. 783), bishop 753–768
- Megingoz, who with his brother Manto, made a major donation to Fulda Abbey in 788
- Megingoz (d. after 808), son of Gerold of Anglachgau
- Megingoz (fl. 876), count in the Wormsgau, member of the Wilhelminer family
- Megingaud, count in the Maiengau, lay abbot of St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier (887–892)
- Mengold of Huy (d. 892), count venerated as a saint
- Megingoz, abbot of Hersfeld (932–935)
- Meingaud, count in the Maingau (965–987) and Lobdengau (987–1002), member of the Conradine family
- Megingoz of Guelders (d. c. 1000), count
- Megingaud of Eichstätt (d. c. 1015), bishop from 991
- Megingaud of Trier (d. 1015), archbishop from 1008
- Megingoz of Merseburg, bishop 1126–1140
- Meingoz of Lechsgemünd, abbot of Weingarten (1188–1200)
References
[edit]- ^ Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times (Uppsala, 1916), p. 183.
- ^ Jean-Pierre Brunterc'h, "Foulque, Adelard, Ingelger et les autres", in Giles Constable and Michel Rouche (eds.), Auctoritas: Mélanges offert à Olivier Guillot (Paris, 2006), p. 353.
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