masculine Beorhtweald

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germanic
Name Root:
*berhtaz *waldaʐ > BERHTOALD
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This name derives from the Old High German “Berhtwald,” composed of two elements: “*berhtaz” (light, bright, clear, shining one) plus “*waldaʐ” (ruler, might, mighty one, power, powerful one). The name means “prominent in control, a great ruler.” The name comes into fashion in the German High Middle Ages, from about the 11th-century. The cognate Old English name is Beorhtwald, attested as the name of an archbishop in the 8th-century. Berthold of Hanover was a German Cistercian and Bishop of Livonia, who met his death in a crusade against the pagan Livonians. Bertold von Henneberg-Römhild was Archbishop of Mainz and Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1484 to 1504).

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