| RODOLPHE |
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Gender: Masculine Usage: French |
| French form of RUDOLF |
| RUDOLF |
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Gender: Masculine Usage: German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovene Pronounced: ROO-dahlf (English) [key] |
| From the Germanic name Hrodwulf, which was derived from the elements hrod “fame” and wulf “wolf”. This was the name of rulers of the Burgundy, the Holy Roman Empire and Austria. A lake in Africa also bears this name |
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First name (forename): Rudolf
Exists in various forms like Rudolf, Rudolph, Rodolphe, Rodolfo, Rudy, Rolo, Rolf, Rolfe, Ralph, Raul etc.
The name has Germanic (Teutonic or Scandinavian) origin and means: “fame wolf“.
It has been already included in Germanic names in the Low Lands in period before AD 1100, constructed from roots rud (meaning fame, famed or far-fame, triumph, red, written/pronunced as rod, rot, rud, ruod, rut, hrod, hroth, hru, ho) and wulf (meaning wolf, written/pronounced as olf, ulef, ulf, wuluf, wlf, wolf, wulf).
Some historical persons bearing my name, in the Middle Ages:
-Rudolf of Fulda, c. AD 821-862, a German monk from the Benedictine Order
-Rudolf I, c. 850-912, the first king of Juran (Upper) Burgundy
-Rudolf II of Burgundy, c. 910-936, king of Burgundy
-Rudolf III of Burgundy (Rudolf The Sluggard, or The Pious), c. 993 – 1032, the last of the independent kings
of Burgundy
-Rudolf von Fenis-Neuenberg, c. 1150 -1196, a German Minnesinger
-Rudolf von Ems, c. 1200-1254, a prolific and versatile Middle High German poet
-Rudolf of Habsburg (Rudolf I), c. AD 1218-1291, the first German king of Habsburg dinasty
-Rudolf of Rüdesheim, c. 1402-1482, a bishop of Breslau
-Rudolph von Langen, c. 1438-1519, a German humanist and divine
-Rudolph Agricola, c. 1443-1485, a Holland humanist
-Rudolf II (of Austria, of Bohemia), c. 1552-1612, a Holy Roman-German emperor, king of Bohemia and Hungary, Archduke of Austria
and some other people with royal and nobre titles.
http://pcserver.iqm.unicamp.br/~rudolf/myname.html
(Redirected from Rudolph III, King of Burgundy)
Rudolf III of Burgundy (called Rudolf der Faule in German, and Rodolphe le Fainéant meaning sluggard or do-nothing or - le Pieux the Pious in French) (born 993; died September 6, 1032) was the last King of an independent Burgundy.
He was the son of Conrad, King of Burgundy and a seventh generation descendant of Charlemagne.
Rudolf’s reign was marked with turbulence. Unable to placate the increasingly powerful nobility, he also had to deal with encroachments of power on the part of Otto-William, Count of Besançon until 995, and Duke of Burgundy thereafter, as well as Henry II, King of Germany. Henry succeeded in forcing Rudolf to name him as his successor in 1016. When Henry died, the new king, Conrad II, also forced Rudolf to make him his heir. Rudolf died in 1032 with no surviving issue; Conrad claimed the Kingdom of Burgundy and incorporated it as a third kingdom alongside Germany and Italy within the Holy Roman Empire.
