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Help[Facts] Berengar(ia)
Any ideas as to the meaning of the male and female medieval names Berengar and Berengaria? The name has survived as the surname Berenger (as in Tom Berenger).
There were Berengars as king of Italy ca. 900 and as a French theologian in the 1100s(?). Berengaria was the daughter of King Sancho of Navarre (Spain) in the late 1100s and married Richard I (Coeur du Lion).
I've also seen the male version as variants Berengarius and Berengario, but nearly everything was Latinized at some point back then. Doesn't mean it has Roman origins.
Thankee...
There were Berengars as king of Italy ca. 900 and as a French theologian in the 1100s(?). Berengaria was the daughter of King Sancho of Navarre (Spain) in the late 1100s and married Richard I (Coeur du Lion).
I've also seen the male version as variants Berengarius and Berengario, but nearly everything was Latinized at some point back then. Doesn't mean it has Roman origins.
Thankee...
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