Sunifred
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Sunifred or Sunifredo is a Germanic
given name
, probably of Gothic
origin, the name of two counts of Urgell, one of whom was also count of Barcelona:
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
, probably of Gothic
Gothic language
Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizable Text corpus...
origin, the name of two counts of Urgell, one of whom was also count of Barcelona:
- Sunifred II of Ampurias (c. 840–915)
- Sunifred, Count of Barcelona (844–848)
- Sunifred II, Count of UrgellSunifred II, Count of UrgellSunifred II was Count of Urgell. He was the son of Wilfred the Hairy and succeeded his father on the latter's death in 897. He was still ruling as late as 940, when he appears with his wife Adelaide....
(911–948) - Lupitus of BarcelonaLupitus of BarcelonaLupitus of Barcelona, identified with a Christian archdeacon called Sunifred, was an astronomer in late 10th century Barcelona, then part of the Marca Hispanica between Islamic Al-Andalus and Christian France .Lupitus was instrumental in the transfer of Arabic mathematics, including the...
may be identified with a Christian monk named Sunifred