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Married at age 25. Note that both her father and her husband, Rudolf, were of the same trade, both maurergeselle, (bricklayer journeyman).
About the name Cunigunda or Kunigunde, It seems that Kunigunde was an old German saint, the wife of Holy Roman Emperor, Heinrich II, the last king of the royal house of Saxony (he's a saint too). She lived around the year 1000. Another reference (Weis) says, following Charlemagne, Bernard, King of Italy, was married to Cunigunde. Date on her is year 835. Derived from the Germanic element kuoni "brave" combined with gund "war". I have also been told by Germans that the name is much older than that, pre-Christian, like Brunhilde, Sieglinde, the Wagner German-opera sorts of names. I have no reason to doubt this, but none of it explains why the name enjoyed something of a vogue among late 17th and early 18th century Germans. But it did. |
