Godfried

Last updated April 04, 2019

Godfried is the Dutch form of Geoffrey and Gottfried. It may refer to:

Dutch(Nederlands ) is a West Germanic language spoken by around 23 million people as a first language and 5 million people as a second language, constituting the majority of people in the Netherlands and Belgium. It is the third most widely spoken Germanic language, after its close relatives English and German.

Gottfried is a masculine German given name. It is derived from the Old High German name Godafrid, recorded since the 7th century. The name is composed of the elements god- and frid-.

Carel Godfried Willem Hendrik baron van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout (1892–1986), Dutch diplomat and politician
Eugène Godfried (1952–2009), Curaçao-born political activist and broadcaster
Godfried Aduobe (born 1975), former Ghanaian football midfielder
Godfried Bomans (1913–1971), popular Dutch author and television personality and a prominent Dutch catholic
Godfried Danneels (1933–2019), Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
Godfried Dejonckheere (born 1952), retired Belgian race walker
Godfried Donkor (born 1964), Ghanaian artist, living and working in London
Godfried Schalcken (1643–1706), Dutch genre and portrait painter
Godfried Toussaint, Research Professor of Computer Science at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)
Godfried van Mierlo (1518–1587), bishop of Haarlem and abbot of Egmond Abbey from 1570 to 1578
Godfried-Willem Raes, Belgian composer, performer and instrument maker
Hendrik Godfried Duurkoop (1736–1778), Dutch merchant-trader and diplomat
Jan Joseph Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst (1880–1963), the second highest officer in command of the Dutch armed forces during World War II
Jan Joseph Godfried van Voorst tot Voorst (politician) (1846–1931), Dutch politician and lieutenant-general of the Dutch army
Michiel Godfried Eman or Mike Eman (born 1961), Aruban politician who is the 5th Prime Minister of Aruba
Pieter Godfried Maria van Meeuwen (1899–1982), Dutch lawyer and a politician

Eugène Edward Godfried Presilia was a black Curaçao-born political activist and broadcaster. Educated in the Netherlands, he earned a degree in social services and spoke many languages, including English, French, Spanish, Papiamento, and Haitian Creole, which aided him as he interviewed foreign dignitaries. As a leader of the Action Committee for a Socialist Movement he participated in the Anti-Imperialist Organizations of the Caribbean and Central America collective in the 1980s. Godfried was the director of the Caribbean desk at Radio Havana Cuba and also contributed to Radio Progreso, Radio Rebelde, and Radio Taíno.

Godfried Aduobe is a former Ghanaian football midfielder.

Godfried Jan Arnold Bomans was a popular Dutch author and television personality and a prominent Dutch Catholic. Much of his work remains untranslated into English.

Godfrey is a given name and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French Godefroy, a name composed of the elements: the first being either god ("god") or gōd ("good"); the second being fred ("peace"). The name was brought to England by settlers from Normandy, the Low Countries, and France. The name is rendered Goraidh, Goiridh in Scottish Gaelic. In some cases the surname is derived from the Middle English personal name Godfrey, Godefrey; or the Old French Godefrei, Godefroi, Godefrois; or the Continental Germanic Godefrid. In other cases, the surname is derived from the Irish Mac Gothraidh or Ó Gothraidh.

Gotfrid was the Duke of Alemannia in the late seventh century and until his death. He was of the house of the Agilolfing, which was the dominant ruling family in the Frankish Duchy of Bavaria.

Gudfred was a ninth century Danish king who reigned from at least 804 to 810. Alternate spellings include Godfred, Göttrick (German), Gøtrik (Danish), Gudrød (Danish), and Godofredus (Latin). He stands at the threshold of the History of Denmark in the sense that he is the first ruler about whom we have substantial knowledge from contemporary sources. He waged offensive war against the Carolingian Empire with some success, but was murdered under murky circumstances before a major confrontation had taken place. There is no unambiguous trace of Gudfred in the later Norse sagas, and his history can only be traced from the hostile Frankish texts which makes an assessment of his role problematic. His paternity is unknown but he may have been closely related to Sigfred, who preceded him as king of Denmark c.770–804. He was the uncle of the later Danish King Hemming (810–812) and the father of King Horik I (813–854).

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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Roermond is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in the Netherlands. The diocese is one of the seven Roman-Catholic suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Utrecht. The territory of the diocese covers the Province of Limburg.

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Carel Godfried Willem Hendrik (Pim), Baron van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout was a Dutch diplomat and politician.

Raes is a Dutch patronymic surname most common in East Flanders. The archaic given name Raes or Raas was short for Erasmus or was a derivative the Middle Dutch male name Razo. People with this surname include:

The Dutch male given name Hendrik is a cognate of the English Henry. The spelling Hendrick was interchangeable until the 19th century. Birth names of people with this name can be Latinized to Henderikus, Hendricus, Hendrikus, or Henricus, while common nicknames for Hendrik are Han, Hein, Henk, Hennie, Henny, Henri, Henry, Rijk, and Rik. People with Hendrik or Hendrick as their first name include:

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Eduardus is a masculine given name which may refer to:

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