When Hildegarda Barnimówna was born in 1278, in Poland, her father, Herzog Barnim I von Pommern, was 61 and her mother, Prinzessin Mechthild von Brandenburg, was 31.
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The Jagiellonian Dynasty.
From an old Germanic female personal name composed of hild ‘battle’ + gard ‘enclosure’. It was borne by the second wife of Charlemagne and by the mystical writer Hildegard of Bingen ( 1098–1179 ), in whose music and writings there has been great interest in recent decades.
Dictionary of First Names © Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges 1990, 2003, 2006.
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