Kunigunde
Kunigunde, Kunigunda, or Cunigunde is a European female name of German origin derived from "kuni" (clan, family) and "gund" (war).[1] In Polish this is sometimes Kunegunda or Kinga. People with such names include:
- Cunigunda of Laon, wife of Bernard of Italy (797-818)
- Queen Cunigunde of Swabia (died 918), wife and consort of King Conrad I of East Francia
- Holy Roman Empress St. Cunigunde (of Luxembourg) (c. 975 - 1040), wife and consort of Holy Roman Emperor St. Henry II
- Queen Kunigunde (of Hohenstaufen) (1200? – 13 September 1248), wife and consort of Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
- Queen Kunigunda (of Slavonia) (died 1285), consort of Bohemia and its regent from 1278-85
- Kunigunde von Orlamünde (1303 – 1382), consort of Otto VI, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde
- St. Kinga of Poland (1234-1292), Patroness of Poland and Lithuania
- Kunigunde of Poland (c. 1298 – 1331), daughter of King Władysław I the Elbow-High of Poland
- Kunigunde of Rapperswil (c. early 4th century), Christian Saint
- Cunigunde of Poland (died 1357), wife of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Margrave of Brandenburg
- Kunigunde of Sternberg (died 1449), first wife of George of Poděbrady
- Queen Kunigunde of Bohemia (died 1464), wife and consort of King Matthias of Hungary
- Archduchess Kunigunde of Austria (died 1520), wife of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria
- Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676–1730), Electress of Bavaria and of the Electorate of the Palatinate
- Kunigunde Streicher, wife of Julius Streicher
- Kunegunda Godawska-Olchawa (b. 1951), Polish Olympic slalom canoeist
Fictional or legendary
- Princess Kunegunda, from a legend of the Chojnik Castle
- Cunégonde, a fictional character in Voltaire's novel Candide
- Minerva Cunnegunda Grey, wife of Lord Harold "Hal" Grey, Duke of Pardloe in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon, this name being mentioned in the 8th central novel, Written in my Own Heart's Blood.
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See also
- 936 Kunigunde, main-belt asteroid
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