Ekkehard (and Eckardt, Eckard, Eckart, Eckhardt, Ekkehart) is a German given name. It is composed of the elements ''ekke'' "edge, blade; sword" and ''hart'' "brave; hardy". Variant forms include Eckard, Eckhard,
Eckhart,
Eckart Eckart is a German surname, and may refer to:
* Anselm Eckart (1721–1809), German Jesuit missionary
* Carl Eckart
* Dennis E. Eckart (born 1950), American lawyer, former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
* Dietrich Eckart (1868–1923) ...
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The
Anglo-Saxon form of the name was ''Ecgheard'', possibly attested in the toponym
Eggerton
Eggerton Hundred or Eggardon Hundred was a hundred in the county of Dorset, England, containing the following parishes:
*Askerswell
* Hooke
*Long Bredy
* Powerstock (part)
*Winterbourne Abbas
Winterborne Abbas is a village and civil parish i ...
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Middle Ages
It was the name of five monks of the
Abbey of Saint Gall
The Abbey of Saint Gall (german: Abtei St. Gallen) is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot ...
from the tenth to the thirteenth century:
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Ekkehard I
Ekkehard I ( la, Eccehardus; died 14 January 973), called ''Major'' or ''Senex'' (the Elder), was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall. He was of noble birth, of the Jonschwyl family in Toggenburg, and was educated in the monastery of St. Gall; afte ...
(died 973)
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Ekkehard II (died 990)
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Ekkehard III
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Ekkehard IV Ekkehard IV ( 980 – c. 1056) was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall and the author of the ''Casus sancti Galli'' and ''Liber Benedictionum''.
Life
According to the testimony in his "Chronicle" (especially in view of his statement that he had heard ...
(died c. 1056)
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Ekkehard V Ekkehard V (died c. 1220), called ''Minimus'' (the Least), was a monk of the Abbey of Saint Gall. He is the last of the Saint Gall Ekkehards, and flourished towards the end of the twelfth, and the beginning of the thirteenth, century. No particulars ...
(died c. 1220)
It was also the name of two
Margraves of Meissen
This article lists the margraves of Meissen, a march and territorial state on the eastern border of the Holy Roman Empire.
History
King Henry the Fowler, on his 928-29 campaign against the Slavic Glomacze tribes, had a fortress erected on a h ...
:
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Eckard I (died 1002)
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Eckard II (died 1046)
Other notable people with that given name include:
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Ekkehard of Huysburg
Blessed Ekkehard of Huysburg (died 28 June 1084) was a canon at Halberstadt Cathedral and first abbot of the Benedictine abbey in Huysburg.
Life
According to the chronicles of the Annalista Saxo, Ekkehard about 1070 was appointed by Bishop Burc ...
(died 1084), abbot of Huysburg Abbey
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Ekkehard of Aura
Ekkehard of Aura ( la, Ekkehardus Uraugiensis; died 1126) was the Abbot of Aura (a monastery founded by Otto, Bishop of Bamberg, on the Franconian Saale river, near Bad Kissingen, Bavaria) from 1108. A Benedictine monk and chronicler, he made upda ...
(died 1126), chronicler and abbot of Aura Abbey
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Meister Eckhart
Eckhart von Hochheim ( – ), commonly known as Meister Eckhart, Master Eckhart (1907-1985), Luftwaffe officer
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Ekkehard von Kuenssberg
Ekkehard von Kuenssberg CBE (17 December 1913 – 27 December 2000), , was a German-born physician who made his career in Scotland.
He was chairman and later president of the Royal College of General Practitioners and was appointed as its Wol ...
(1913–2000), German doctor
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_(b._1941),_businessman
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(b. 1941), businessman
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German masculine given names