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Help[Facts] Ehrengard?
The widow of a very old German army officer whose obituary appeared in the Telegraph. No entry in this database, but there must be someone with knowledge or a sound opinion.
He was Generalmajor Heinz-Helmut von Hinckeldey, for the records.
He was Generalmajor Heinz-Helmut von Hinckeldey, for the records.
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The "Duden" for German given names sees Ehrengard as a probably quite recently coined name (i.e. compared to other such Germanic two-element names which sometimes are 1000 years old), with the elements 'Ehre' (a German word meaning 'honor') and the once-popular name ending 'gard' (etymologically related to English 'garden').
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Thanks! That's really interesting. I'd assumed that it was probably medieval ... what does "quite recent" mean, do you know? 20th century, or 19th-century Romanticism (like all those little Victorian Ediths)?
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Well, that database does not mention a date for Ehrengard.
However, for the male name Ehrenreich which contains the same first element it gives the 17th/18th century as time of origin.
However, for the male name Ehrenreich which contains the same first element it gives the 17th/18th century as time of origin.
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