Kunigunde

Kunigunde, Kunigunda, or Cunigunde is a European female name of German origin derived from "kuni" (clan, family) and "gund" (war). In Polish this is sometimes Kunegunda or Kinga. People with such names include:

• Cunigunda of Laon, wife of Bernard of Italy (797-818)
• Queen Cunigunde of Swabia (died 918), wife and consort of King Conrad I of East Francia
• Holy Roman Empress St. Cunigunde (of Luxembourg) (c. 975 - 1040), wife and consort of Holy Roman Emperor St. Henry II
• Queen Kunigunde (of Hohenstaufen) (1200? – 13 September 1248), wife and consort of Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
• Queen Kunigunda (of Slavonia) (died 1285), consort of Bohemia and its regent from 1278-85
• Kunigunde von Orlamünde (1303 – 1382), consort of Otto VI, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde
• St. Kinga of Poland (1234-1292), Patroness of Poland and Lithuania
• Kunigunde of Poland (c. 1298 – 1331), daughter of King Władysław I the Elbow-High of Poland
• Kunigunde of Rapperswil (c. early 4th century), Christian Saint
• Cunigunde of Poland (died 1357), wife of Louis VI the Roman, Duke of Bavaria and Margrave of Brandenburg
• Kunigunde of Sternberg (died 1449), first wife of George of Poděbrady
• Queen Kunigunde of Bohemia (died 1464), wife and consort of King Matthias of Hungary
• Archduchess Kunigunde of Austria (died 1520), wife of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria
• Theresa Kunegunda Sobieska (1676–1730), Electress of Bavaria and of the Electorate of the Palatinate
• Kunigunde Streicher, wife of Julius Streicher
• Kunegunda Godawska-Olchawa (b. 1951), Polish Olympic slalom canoeist

Fictional or legendary

• Princess Kunegunda, from a legend of the Chojnik Castle
• Cunégonde, a fictional character in Voltaire's novel Candide

See also

• 936 Kunigunde, main-belt asteroid