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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-'' (conflated from the etyma for "god" and "good", and possibly further conflated with ''gaut'') and ''frid-'' ("peace, protection").〔Ernst Förstemann, ''Altdeutsches Namenbuch'' (1856), (533 ).〕 The name was introduced to England by the Normans and became anglicized as ''Godfrey''. The same name became ''Geoffrey'' in Middle French, which was in turn anglicized as ''Jeffrey''. The Italian form is ''Goffredo''. The German name was commonly abbreviated as ''Götz'' from the late medieval period. ''Götz'' and variants (including ''Göthe, Göthke'' and ''Göpfert'') also came into use as German surnames. ==Given name== :''See also: .'' The given name ''Gottfried'' became extremely frequent in Germany in the High Middle Ages, to the point of eclipsing most other names in ''God-'' (such as ''Godabert, Gotahard, Godohelm, Godomar, Goduin, Gotrat, Godulf'', etc.) The name was Latinized as ''Godefridus''. Medieval bearers of the name include: *Gotfrid, Duke of Alemannia and Raetia (d. 709) *Godefrid (d. c. 720), son of Drogo of Champagne, Frankish nobleman. *Godfrid Haraldsson (d. c. 856), Danish Viking leader *Godfrid, Duke of Frisia (d. 885), Danish Viking leader *Godfrey, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (d. 949) *Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 964) *Geoffrey I "Greymantle", Count of Anjou (d. 987) *Geoffrey I, Duke of Brittany (d. 1008) *Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 1023) *Geoffrey II "the Hammer", Count of Anjou (d. 1060) *Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine (d. 1069) *Godfrey of Bouillon (''Godefridus Bullionensis, Godefroy de Bouillon'', d. 1100), Frankish knight and leader of the First Crusade *Gottfried II of Raabs (d. c. 1137), burgrave of Nuremberg *Gottfried of Admont (d. 1165), Benedictine abbot *Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany (d. c. 1181) *Geoffrey of Clairvaux (d. after 1188), Cistercian abbot *Godfrey of Viterbo (''Godefridus Viterbiensis'', c. 1120 – c. 1196) *Geoffrey of Vinsauf (fl. 1200), medieval grammarian *Gottfried von Strassburg (d. 1210), author of a Middle High German courtly romance *Geoffrey of Villehardouin (d. c. 1212), knight and historian of the Fourth Crusade *Gottfried von Hohenlohe (1265–1310), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order A notable early modern bearer of the name is Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716). ''Gottfried'' remains comparatively popular in Germany, ranking in the top 200 masculine given names.〔found to be at rank 135 with 11,738 entries in the German phonebook as of 2005 according to :de:wikt:Verzeichnis:Deutsch/Liste der häufigsten männlichen Vornamen Deutschlands.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gottfried」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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