Grimoald
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Grimoald, Grimald, Grimoart, Grimwald, Grimuald, or Grimbald is a Germanic
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Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
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- Grimoald I of BeneventoGrimoald I of BeneventoGrimoald I was duke of Benevento and king of the Lombards .Born probably before 610 to Duke Gisulf II of Friuli and the Bavarian princess Ramhilde, daughter of Duke Garibald I of Bavaria, he succeeded his brother Radoald as duke of Benevento...
, duke of Benevento (651–662) and king of the Lombards (662–677) - Grimoald II of BeneventoGrimoald II of BeneventoGrimoald II was the duke of Benevento from 677 to his death. He was the son and successor of Romuald I of Benevento. He was possibly under the regency of his mother, Theodrada, daughter of Lupus of Friuli. His reign of three years was uneventful: Paul the Deacon records nothing but his marriage...
, duke of Benevento (677–680) - Grimoald III of BeneventoGrimoald III of BeneventoGrimoald III was the Lombard Prince of Benevento from 788 until his own death. He was the second son of Arechis II and Adelperga. In 787, he and his elder brother Romoald were sent as hostages to Charlemagne who had descended the Italian peninsula as far as Salerno to receive the submission of...
, duke of Benevento (787–806) - Grimoald IV of BeneventoGrimoald IV of BeneventoGrimoald IV , son of Ermenrih, called Falco, was the Lombard Prince of Benevento from 806 until his death. He was a thesaurarius or stolesayz/stoleseyz before becoming prince on the death of Grimoald III, over Grimoald's own son, Ilderic, another stoleseyz.In 812, he was forced to pay 25,000 solidi...
, duke of Benevento (806–817) - Grimoald of BavariaGrimoald of BavariaGrimoald was the duke of Bavaria from about 715 to his death. He was the youngest of the four sons of Theodo of Bavaria and his wife Folchaid and the uncle of Swanachild, the second wife of Charles Martel. At first, he co-reigned with his brothers Theodbert, Theobald, and Tassilo II and then,...
, duke of Bavaria (715–725) - Grimoald, son of Tassilo II
- Grimoald I the Elder, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia (643–656)
- Grimoald II the Younger, Mayor of the Palace of Neustria and Burgundy (695–714)
- Grimoald Alferanites, Prince of Bari (1121–1132)
- Grimoaldo of the PurificationGrimoaldo of the PurificationBlessed Grimoaldo of the Purification, born Ferdinando Santamaria, a religious and clerical student of the Passionist Congregation, born on May 4, 1883 in Pontecorvo, Frosinone, Italy; died November 18, 1902 at Ceccano, Italy...
(1883–1902), a religious and clerical student of the Passionist Congregation - Nicholas GrimaldNicholas GrimaldNicholas Grimald , English poet, was born in Huntingdonshire, the son probably of Giovanni Baptista Grimaldi, who had been a clerk in the service of Empson and Dudley in the reign of Henry VII....
(1519–1562), English poet - Grimaldo CanellaGrimaldo CanellaGrimaldo Canella was the youngest son of Otto Canella and Consul of Genoa in 1162, 1170, and 1184. He is an ancestor and the namesake of the House of Grimaldi, the ruling family of Monaco....
, consul of the Republic of Genoa, founder of House of Grimaldi - Grimoart GausmarGrimoart GausmarGrimoart Gausmar was a Gascon troubadour of the third quarter of the twelfth century. The sole source of information about his life comes from a satire of Peire d'Alvernhe, which mentions that Grimoart was a knight and jongleur. Only one known poem by Grimoart has survived...
, 12th-century troubadour - GrimbaldGrimbaldSaint Grimbald was a Benedictine, invited to England by King Alfred the Great in 885. King Alfred met Grimbald while journeying to Rome at the French abbey of Saint-Bertin . Grimbald arrived in England and declined the see of Canterbury, preferring to remain a monk...
, 9th-century saint
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- Guillaume Grimoard, better known as Pope Urban V