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Sigismund (variants: Sigmund (given name)|Sigmund , :de:Siegmund|Siegmund ) is a German proper name, meaning "protection through victory", from Old High German sigu "victory" + munt "hand, protection". Tacitus Latinises it Segimundus . It looks like there is an older form of the High German word "Sieg" (victory): sigis , obviously Gothic and an inferred Germanic form, and there is a younger form: sigi , which is Old Saxon or Old High German sigu (both from about 9th century). A 5th century Prince of Burgundy was known both as Sigismund and Sigimund (see Ernst Förstemann , Altdeutsche Personennamen , 1906; Henning Kaufmann, Altdeutsche Personennamen , Ergänzungsband,1968).
A Lithuanian name Žygimantas , meaning "wealth of (military) campaign", from Lithuanian language|Lithuanian žygis "campaign, march" + manta "goods, wealth" has been a substitution of the name Sigismund in the Lithuanian language, from which it was adopted by the Ruthenian language as ???????? (such are the cases of Sigismund Kestutaitis , Sigismund Korybut , Sigismund I the Old , Sigismund II Augustus ). The Polish language|Polish spelling is Zygmunt .
Sigismund was the name of several European nobles:
Saint Sigismund of Burgundy (died 523), King of the Burgundians
Sigismund of Hungary , Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368–1437), King of Hungary, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia
Sigismund Kestutaitis (c.1350–1440), Grand Duke of Lithuania
Sigismund Korybut (c.1395-c.1435), Lithuanian Duke, participated in Hussite Wars
Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (1427–1496), ruler of Further Austria
Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (1630-1665), ruler of Further Austria
Sigismund of Bavaria (1439–1501), a Duke of Bavaria
Sigismund I the Old (1467–1548), King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania
Sigismund II Augustus (1520–1572), King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania
Sigismund III Vasa (1566–1632), King of Sweden (as Sigismund) and Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania
Sigismund Báthory (1572–1613), Prince of Transylvania
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864-1866) , the fourth child of Friedrich III, German Emperor and Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom
Sigismund/Siegmund may also refer to fictional characters:
Segismundo, main character of Calderón de la Barca 's La vida es sueńo .
Segismundo, 21st century hero of the dramatic novel "United States of Banana" by Giannina Braschi, based on Calderón de la Barca's Life is a Dream .
Sigismund, a character from the Warhammer 40,000 game series, First Captain of the Imperial Fists|Imperial Fists Legion and later founder and first High Marshall of the Black Templars|Black Templars Chapter
Sigismund (bell) , a famous bell in the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, cast in 1520
Siegmund, a focal character in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre
Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein , fictional King of Bohemia in " A Scandal in Bohemia " (Sherlock Holmes adventure)
Sigismund the mad maths teacher, a character in the Nigel Molesworth school stories
See also
Sigmund (given name) for people named Sigmund or Siegmund
given name|Sigismund|nocat Category:German masculine given names
