Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 387

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Greetings,

Here's the information we found on the German byname "Heinrich."

We found several forms of "Heinrich" from your period: (1,2)

• Heymreich 1367
• Henreych 1415
• Heinrich 1200-1400

It's possible that "Heinze," based on a pet-form of "Heinrich," was a more common byname. A list of names from Hesse from 1200-1600 has only three examples of "Heinrich" but many examples of "Heinze." Spellings found there include (3)

• Heinze
• Henze
• Heincz

In response to your request we put a list of 15th-century German women's names on the Web. There are over 50 names there, which should give you some idea of the possibilities. The URL is

http://www.itd.umich.edu/~ximenez/s.gabriel/docs/german15f.html

Talan Gwynek and Arval Benicouer contributed to this letter.

We hope this has been helpful, and that we can continue to assist you.

In service,
Alan Fairfax
Academy of S. Gabriel

(1) Schwarz, E. "Sudetendeutsche Familiennamen aus Vorhussitischer Zeit."

(2) Socin.

(3) Mulch, R. "Arnsburger Personennamen."