Bertha

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Bertha
Gender	Female
Meaning	"bright one"
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with "Bertha"

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Bertha is a female Germanic name name, from Old High German berhta meaning "bright one".

The name occurs as a theonym, surviving as Berchta, a figure in Alpine folklore connected to the Wild Hunt, probably an epithet of *Frijjō in origin. Bertha appears as a Frankish given name from as early as the 6th century. The monothematic Bertha as a given name may however not originate with the theonym but rather as a short form of dithematic given names including the "bright" element. This is notably the case with the mother of Charlemagne, Bertrada (properly berht-rada "bright counsel") called "Bertha Broadfoot". Carolingian use of the name Bertha, as in Bertha, daughter of Charlemagne and Bertha, daughter of Lothair II are in this tradition.

women called Bertha:

• Saint Bertha of Kent (539-c. 612), Queen of Kent
• Saint Bertha of Val d'Or (d. c. 690), Abbess
• Saint Bertha of Artois (mid 7th century - July 4, 725), Abbess, daughter of Count Rigobert and Ursana
• Bertrada of Laon (also called Bertha with the big feet) (720 – July 12, 783), Frankish queen
• Saint Bertha of Bingen (fl. c. 840?), mother of Saint Rupert of Bingen
• Bertha, daughter of Lothair II
• Bertha of Burgundy, queen of France
• Bertha of Holland, queen of France
• Bertha of Sulzbach, Byzantine empress
• Bertha of Swabia, queen of Burgundy
• Bertha von Putelendorf, Saxon noble
• Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist
• Bertha Tammelin Swedish musician, somposer and singer
• Bertha Wilson, first female Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
• Blessed Bertha de Bardi Florence; (d. March 24, 1163)
• Bertha Díaz, Cuban track and field athlete
• Bertha Sánchez, Colombian long-distance runner

[edit] See also

• Berta (disambiguation)
• Big Bertha

[edit] External links

• http://www.behindthename.com/name/bertha

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