Rostagnus
Rostagnus is a Latinization of a Germanic given name common in the Middle Ages, especially in Occitania. It derives from Proto-Germanic *Hrōþi- "fame" and *stainaz "stone". It is attested in the Old High German form Hruodstein.[1][2]
Numerous other Latin spellings are known: Rostandus,[3] Rustandus,[1] Rostaignus, Rostangnus, Rostannus,[4] Rystagnus and Restagnus.[5] In vernacular documents in England and Romance-speaking areas, the name appears as Rostaing,[3] Rostand, Rostan,[4] Rustand, Rustant, Rustan, Rodstein, Rostein,[1] Rostain,[2] Rostang and Rostagne. The Occitan form is Rostanh[2] and the Catalan is Rostany.[4]
Persons with this name include:
- Rostany, first count of Girona (785–801)
- Rostaing I, archbishop of Arles (870–913)
- Rostaing, bishop of Uzès (945)
- Rostan de Soler (fl. 1216–43), Gascon statesman
- Rostanh de Merguas (late 13th century), Provençal troubadour
- Rostaing de la Capre, archbishop of Arles (1286–1303)
- Rostaing Berenguier (early 14th century), Provençal troubadour and knight
- Rostand Melaping (born 1978), Cameroonian judoka
References
- Thorvald Forssner, Continental-Germanic Personal Names in England in Old and Middle English Times, PhD diss., Uppsala University, p. 222.
- Franz Hemmann, Consonantismus des Gascognischen bis zum Ende des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts, PhD diss., University of Jena, 1888, p. 63.
- Raffaele Licinio, Castelli medievali: Puglia e Basilicata, dai Normanni a Federico II e Carlo I d'Angiò (Edizioni Dedalo, 1994), p. 233.
- M. T. Ferrer i Mallol and M. Riu i Riu, eds., Tractats i negociacions diplomàtiques de Catalunya i de la Corona catalanoaragonesa a l'edat mitjana, Vol. I.2 (Barcelona, 2018), p. 496.
- Robert Ignatius Burns, Diplomatarium of the Crusader Kingdom of Valencia: The Registered Charters of Its Conqueror, Jaume I, 1257–1276, vol. I: Society and Documentation in Crusader Valencia (Princeton University Press, 1985), p. 98.
See also
- For surnames with the same etymology, see
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