Luitgard Explained

Luitgard is a German female name.

Origin

The name comes from Old High German and means "[female] guardian of the people" (German: Beschützerin des Volks). This derives, in its older form, Liutgard, from liut which means "people" (Modern German: Leute), "member of a people",^[1] and gard which means "protection" or "guardianship", from which the German word Garten and the English word "garden" are also derived.

Name day

Its name day is 16 October, the same date as that of the Blessed Luitgard of Wittichen.

Variants

• Luitgart, Luitgardt, Lutgard, Lutgaarde, Lutgart, Liutgard, Liutgart, Liudgard

Notable bearers of the name

• Luitgard (died 4 June 800), last of the five wives of Charlemagne
• Luitgard Im (1930–1997), German actress
• Liutgard of Beutelsbach, benefactress of Hirsau Abbey and sister of Conrad I of Württemberg
• Liutgard of Saxony (died 885), wife of the King of East Francia, Louis the Younger
• Liutgard of Saxony (died 953), daughter of the Emperor Otto I's first marriage, who married Duke Conrad of Lorraine in 947
• Lutgardis of Luxemburg (c. 955 – c. 1005), wife of Arnulf, Count of Holland
• Luitgard of Swabia (died 1146), daughter of Frederick II of Swabia and Agnes of Saarbrücken, married Conrad I of Meissen in 1119
• Luitgart (died after 1150), daughter of Count Frederick I of Zollern, nun in Zwiefalten
• Lutgard of Salzwedel (died 1152), wife of Eric III, King of Denmark
• Lutgard of Tongern (1182–1246), Flemish mystic
• Luitgard of Tübingen (born c. 1240; died 1309), Countess Palatine of Tübingen
• Liutgart of Tübingen, wife of Burkhard V (died 1318), Count of Nagold-Wildberg, House of Hohenberg
• Blessed Luitgard of Wittichen (1291–1348), German nun, mystic and founder of Wittichen Abbey
• Luitgard Schwendenmann, ecosystem scientist in New Zealand
• Luitgard Veraart, German mathematician

References

1. Entry LEUTE, pl. homines in Grimm: Deutsches Wörterbuch (online: dwb.uni-trier.de).