Kunigunde

Kunigunde, Kunigunda, or Cunigunde is a European female name of German origin derived from "kuni" (clan, family) and "gund" (war). People with the name include:

• 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 King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia
• Queen Kunigunda (of Slavonia) (died 1285), consort of Bohemia and its regent from 1278-85
• St. Kinga of Poland (died 1292), Patroness of Poland and Lithuania
• Kunigunde of Poland (c. 1298 – 1331), daughter of King Władysław I the Elbow-High of Poland
• 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
• Cunigunda of Laon, wife of Bernard of Italy
• Cunégonde, a fictional character in Voltaire's novel Candide

See also

• Kunegunda (name), a Polish version of the name
• 936 Kunigunde, a minor planet orbiting the sun