title: Luitgard
text: # Luitgard
  
  Luitgard is a German female name.
  
  ## Origin
  
  The name comes from Old High German and means "[female] guardian of the people" (German: Beschützerin des Volks). This derives, in its older form, Liutgard, from liut which means "people" (Modern German: Leute), "member of a people", and gard which means "protection" or "guardianship", from which the German word Garten and the English word "garden" are also derived.
  
  ## Name day
  
  Its name day is 16 October, the same date as that of the Blessed Luitgard of Wittichen.
  
  ## Variants
  
  * Luitgart, Luitgardt, Lutgard, Lutgaarde, Lutgart, Liutgard, Liutgart, Liudgard
  
  ## Notable bearers of the name
  
  * Luitgard (died 4 June 800), last of the five wives of Charlemagne
  * Liutgard of Beutelsbach, benefactress of Hirsau Abbey and sister of Conrad I of Württemberg
  * Liutgard of Saxony (died 885), wife of the King of East Francia, Louis the Younger
  * Liutgard of Saxony (died 953), daughter of the Emperor Otto I's first marriage, who married Duke Conrad of Lorraine in 947
  * Lutgardis of Luxemburg (c. 955 – c. 1005), wife of Arnulf, Count of Holland
  * Luitgard of Swabia (died 1146), daughter of Frederick II of Swabia and Agnes of Saarbrücken, married Conrad I of Meissen in 1119
  * Luitgart (died after 1150), daughter of Count Frederick I of Zollern, nun in Zwiefalten
  * Lutgard of Salzwedel (died 1152), wife of Eric III, King of Denmark
  * Lutgard of Tongern (1182–1246), Flemish mystic
  * Luitgard of Tübingen (born c. 1240; died 1309), Countess Palatine of Tübingen
  * Liutgart of Tübingen, wife of Burkhard V (died 1318), Count of Nagold-Wildberg, House of Hohenberg
  * Blessed Luitgard of Wittichen (1291–1348), German nun, mystic and founder of Wittichen Abbey
  