Sigismund
Sigismund (variants:
Sigmund,
Siegmund) is a German proper name, meaning "protection through victory", from
Old High German sigu "victory" +
munt "hand, protection".
Tacitus latinises it
Segimundus. It looks like there is an older form of the High German word "Sieg" (victory):
sigis, obviously Gothic and an inferred Germanic form, and there is a younger form:
sigi, which is
Old Saxon or
Old High German sigu (both from about 9th century). A 5th century Prince of Burgundy was known both as
Sigismund and
Sigimund (see Ernst Förstemann, Altdeutsche Personennamen, 1906; Henning Kaufmann, Altdeutsche Personennamen, Ergänzungsband,1968).
Sigismund was also a Latinised substitution of Lithuanian name
Žygimantas, meaning "wealth of (military) campaign", from
Lithuanian žygis "campaign, march" +
manta "goods, wealth" (such are the cases of
Sigismund Kestutaitis,
Sigismund Korybut,
Sigismund I the Old,
Sigismund II Augustus).
Sigismund was the name of several European nobles:
* Saint
Sigismund of Burgundy (died 523), King of the Burgundians
*
Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368â€"1437), Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary
*
Sigismund Kestutaitis (c.1350â€"1440), Grand Duke of Lithuania
*
Sigismund Korybut (?-~1435), Lithuanian Duke, participated in Hussite Wars
*
Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (1427â€"1496), ruler of Further Austria
*
Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (1630-1665), ruler of Further Austria
*
Sigismund of Bavaria (1439â€"1501), a Duke of Bavaria
*
Sigismund I the Old (1467â€"1548), King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania
*
Sigismund II Augustus (1520â€"1572), King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania
*
Sigismund III Vasa (1566â€"1632), King of Sweden (as Sigismund I) and Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania
*
Sigismund Báthory (1572â€"1613), Prince of Transylvania
*
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864-1866), the fourth child of Emperor
Friedrich III, German Emperor and
Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom.
Sigismund/Siegmund may also refer to:
*
Sigismund (bell), a famous bell in the
Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, cast in 1520
* Siegmund, a focal character in
Richard Wagner's
Die Walküre*
Sigmund (disambiguation)
