Gandulf

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

See also

  • Gandalf (disambiguation)
  • Gandolfi
  • Gundulf
  • Castel Gandolfo

Notes

  1. ^ Rosa and Volker Kohlheim, Lexikon der Vornamen: Herkunft, Bedeutung und Gebrauch von über 8 000 Vornamen (Berlin: Dudenverlag, 2016), here
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