Re: Ilsebe - not Latvian but German
in reply to a message by Elle
This seems to be a German pet form of Elizabeth. It is listed as such at the following website about names in Hamburg, Germany from the 1400s:
http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/hamburg.html
Ilsabe is also listed as a form of Elisabeth in Knaurs Vornamen Buch by Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz & Horst Leisering.
http://www.ellipsis.cx/~liana/names/german/hamburg.html
Ilsabe is also listed as a form of Elisabeth in Knaurs Vornamen Buch by Margit Eberhard-Wabnitz & Horst Leisering.