Meaning & History
Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and English form of Rodelind. Rodelinda (6th century) was a Lombard queen by marriage to king Audoin, and the mother of king Alboin. This name was also borne by Rodelinda (7th century), the wife of King Perctarit of Lombardy and title character of Händel's opera Rodelinda (1725).