Gandulf Explained
Gandulf or Gandolf (Latin Gandolphus, French Gandolphe, Italian Gandolfo) is a masculine given name of Germanic origin, common in the Middle Ages. The roots of the name are gand (literally "wand" or "magic wand", by extension "sorcery") and wolf ("wolf").[1]
- Gandulf of Piacenza (10th century), Italian count
- Gandulf (11th century), bishop of Reggio nell'Emilia
- Gandulf (died 1184), bishop of Alba
- Gandulf of Bologna (died after 1185), theologian
- Gandulf (died 1229), abbot of Saint-Sixte and cardinal
- Gandulf of Binasco (died 1260), Franciscan saint
- Gandolphus Siculus (floruit 1438–44), Sicilian papal legate to India
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Notes and References
- Rosa and Volker Kohlheim, Lexikon der Vornamen: Herkunft, Bedeutung und Gebrauch von über 8 000 Vornamen (Berlin: Dudenverlag, 2016), here