Luitgard is a German female name.
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Origin
The name comes from Old High German and means "[female] guardian of the people" (German: Beschützerin des Volks). This derives, in its older form, Liutgard, from liut which means "people" (Modern German: Leute), "member of a people", and gard which means "protection" or "guardianship", from which the German word Garten and the English word "garden" are also derived.
Name day
Its name day is 16 October, the same date as that of the Blessed Luitgard of Wittichen.
Variants
Luitgart, Luitgardt, Lutgard, Lutgaarde, Lutgarde, Lutgart, Liutgard, Liutgart, Liudgard
Notable bearers of the name
Luitgard (died 4 June 800), last of the five wives of Charlemagne
Luitgard Im (1930–1997), German actress
Liutgard of Beutelsbach, benefactress of Hirsau Abbey and sister of Conrad I of Württemberg
Liutgard of Saxony (died 885), wife of the King of East Francia, Louis the Younger
Liutgard of Saxony (died 953), daughter of the Emperor Otto I's first marriage, who married Duke Conrad of Lorraine in 947
Lutgardis of Luxemburg (c. 955 – c. 1005), wife of Arnulf, Count of Holland
Luitgard of Swabia (died 1146), daughter of Frederick II of Swabia and Agnes of Saarbrücken, married Conrad I of Meissen in 1119
Luitgart (died after 1150), daughter of Count Frederick I of Zollern, nun in Zwiefalten
Lutgard of Salzwedel (died 1152), wife of Eric III, King of Denmark
Lutgard of Tongern (1182–1246), Flemish mystic
Luitgard of Tübingen (born c. 1240; died 1309), Countess Palatine of Tübingen
Liutgart of Tübingen, wife of Burkhard V (died 1318), Count of Nagold-Wildberg, House of Hohenberg
Blessed Luitgard of Wittichen (1291–1348), German nun, mystic and founder of Wittichen Abbey
Luitgard Schwendenmann, ecosystem scientist in New Zealand
Luitgard Veraart, German mathematician