Goswin is a
Germanic male given name originally meaning "friend (''win'') of the
Goths
The Goths ( got, 𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌸𐌹𐌿𐌳𐌰, translit=''Gutþiuda''; la, Gothi, grc-gre, Γότθοι, Gótthoi) were a Germanic people who played a major role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the emergence of medieval Europe ...
(''gos'')"
[Goswijn]
in the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands. As ''Gosewijn'', ''Goswijn'' or ''Gozewijn'' (with short forms ''Goos'', ''Goes'', ''Gosse'' and ''Geus'') it was quite common in the Middle Ages in the Low Countries.
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Gosse
in the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands. Latinized versions include ''Gos(s)uinus'', ''Gosvinus'', and ''Goswinus'', while in
French the name has been rendered ''Gosvin'' and ''Gossuin'' (e.g.
:fr:Gossuin d'Anchin).
People with this name include:
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Gosse Ludigman
Gosse Ludigman (elected 989 died in 1000) was a legendary potestaat (or elected governor) of Friesland, now a province of the Netherlands. He does not appear in sources until hundreds of years after his supposed life.
Gosse lived at Stavoren, Sta ...
(died 1000), possibly fictitious governor of Western Frisia
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Goswin I of Heinsberg Goswin I of Heinsberg (Goswin I von Heinsberg) (ca. 1060–1128) was the Count of Heinsberg from 1085–1128. He was (most-possibly) the father of Goswin II of Heinsberg. He reigned since an unknown period with his brother Gerhard I of Heinsberg ...
(ca. 1060–1128), Limburg count, lord of Valkenburg
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Goswin of Anchin (c. 1085–1165), Flemish Benedictine abbot and saint
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, 12th-century Polish Bishop
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Goswin of Bossut (fl. 1230s), Cistercian writer
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Gozewijn van Randerath
Gozewijn van Randerath was a Dutch Roman Catholic clergyman. He was locally elected to be bishop of Utrecht in 1249, but Pope Innocent IV appointed Henry I van Vianden instead, and so Gozewijn withdrew from the post in 1250.
Due to an error by t ...
(fl. 1250), Bishop of Utrecht
* (died 1359), ruler of Livonia
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Goswin Haex van Loenhout (died 1475), Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht
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(1455–1543), Flemish painter
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Goswin Nickel (1582–1664), German Jesuit priest
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Goswin de Fierlant (ca. 1735—1804), Flemish councillor
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Goswin de Stassart
Goswin Joseph Augustin, Baron de Stassart (2 September 1780 – 16 October 1854) was a Dutch-Belgian politician.
Stassart studied accounting and economics in Paris. In 1804 he became Auditor in the French State Council, in 1805 he became Intenda ...
(1780–1854), Dutch-Belgian politician
* (1810–1887), Dutch physician and University Dean
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Goswin Karl Uphues(1841–1916), German philosopher
* (1850–1919), German historian
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Goos Meeuwsen (born 1982), Dutch circus performer
References
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Germanic masculine given names