ACADEMY OF SAINT GABRIEL REPORT 2277 http://www.s-gabriel.org/2277 ************************************ 16 Apr 2001 From: Josh Mittleman Greetings from the Academy of Saint Gabriel! You asked whether is an appropriate name for a German-speaking man born in Gottschee in the mid-14th to mid-15th centuries. Here is what we have found. Gottschee is the German name of a town now located in southeastern Slovenia, but in the Austrian duchy of Carniola in our period [1]. The region was settled by Germans from Austria and Bavaria in the second half of the 14th century [2]. If you want a name suitable for an ethnic German born in Gottschee, then we recommend you focus no earlier than 1400. We found examples of the placename in German and Latin documents from the 13th century onward [5, 6]: Gotschinpil 1280-1295 (German) Go{c,}e 1283 (Latin) Guetsch 1419 (German) Gotsch 1500 (German) The notation {c,} represents a 'c' with a hook hanging from the bottom. The spelling was recorded in Carinthia, just north of the region you want to re-create. A surname or would be very appropriate for your persona. We have not found examples of in sources that cover this region. It was a relatively rare name everywhere in Germany, so this may just be a quirk of our sources. We did find 1343 and 1429 in Silesia, a region now part of southwestern Poland [8]. Some of the common masculine given names in our data from German-speaking Slovenia are , , , , , and [7]. If you're interested in choosing one of those names instead, we can look up contemporary spellings for you. We hope this letter has been useful. Please write us again if any part of it has been unclear or if you have other questions. I was assisted in researching and writing this letter by Juliana de Luna, Walraven van Nijmegen, Adelais de Savigny, and Talan Gwynek. For the Academy, Arval Benicoeur 16 Apr 2001 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - References [1] Magocsi, Paul Robert. _Historical Atlas of East Central Europe_ (Seattle: University of Washington Press, A History of East Central Europe, Vol. I, 1993) pp.22,40-41. [2] The settlement was initiated by Rudolf IV of Austria [3], who died at age 26 in 1365 [4]. [3] Darby, H. C., et al. _A Short History of Yugoslavia from Early Times to 1966_ (Cambridge University Press, 1966) p.14. [4] Crankshaw, Edward. _The Habsburgs: Portrait of a Dynasty_ (New York: The Viking Press, 1971) pp.23 & 25. [5] Blaznik, Pavle. _Historic^na topografija slovenske: S^tajerske in yugoslovanskega dela Koros^ke do leta 1500_ (Maribor: Zaloz^ba Obzorja, 1986-1989) Vol.I, p.346, s.n. . [6] Luc^ic/, Josip. _Spisi Dubrovac^ke Kancelarije, Knjiga II: Zapisi notara Tomazina de Savere 1282-1284 (Zagreb: Jugoslavenska Akademija Znanosti i Umjetnosti, 1984) items 943, 1324, 1341. We aren't certain that is the same town as , but we believe so since it is the only placename listed for that region which is similar. [7] Blaznik, passim. [8] Talan Gwynek, "Medieval German Given Names from Silesia", revised edition (WWW: J. Mittleman, 1999). http://www.s-gabriel.org/names/talan/bahlow/