Luitgard
Luitgard is a German female name.
Origin
The name comes from Old High German and means " guardian of the people" . This derives, in its older form, Liutgard, from liut which means "people", "member of a people", 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, last of the five wives of Charlemagne
- Luitgard Im, German actress
- Liutgard of Beutelsbach, benefactress of Hirsau Abbey and sister of Conrad I of Württemberg
- Liutgard of Saxony, wife of the King of East Francia, Louis the Younger
- Liutgard of Saxony, daughter of the Emperor Otto I's first marriage, who married Duke Conrad of Lorraine in 947
- Lutgardis of Luxemburg, wife of Arnulf, Count of Holland
- Luitgard of Swabia, daughter of Frederick II of Swabia and Agnes of Saarbrücken, married Conrad I of Meissen in 1119
- Luitgart, daughter of Count Frederick I of Zollern, nun in Zwiefalten
- Lutgard of Salzwedel, wife of Eric III, King of Denmark
- Lutgard of Tongern, Flemish mystic
- Luitgard of Tübingen, Countess Palatine of Tübingen
- Liutgart of Tübingen, wife of Burkhard V, Count of Nagold-Wildberg, House of Hohenberg
- Blessed Luitgard of Wittichen, German nun, mystic and founder of Wittichen Abbey
- Luitgard Schwendenmann, ecosystem scientist in New Zealand
- Luitgard Veraart, German mathematician