Classify Regelindis

[Peterski]

25% Polish + 25% Czech (dad's side), 25% Sorbian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorbs) + 25% Saxon (mom's side):

Grandparents:

- Mieszko I of Poland (Polish)
- Doubravka of Bohemia (Czech)
- Dobromir of Lusatia (Sorbian)
- an unknown Saxon princess

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regelinda

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Reglindis.JPG/490px-Reglindis.JPG

http://gatunekssaka.blog.pl/files/2016/04/regelinda-2.jpg

http://p2.storage.canalblog.com/25/71/345560/87600628_o.jpg

https://historiamniejznanaizapomniana.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/regelinda1.jpg?w=584

[Peterski]

Actually, whether her anonymous maternal grandma was Saxon or Slavic is uncertain.

[Ülev]

Ladogan eye shapes, round Baltid head, flat face, pass in Baltic countries & Russia

[Peterski]

She was the margravine of the March of Meissen (red area):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_margravines_of_Meissen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margravate_of_Meissen

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/March_of_Meissen_locator_map_%281004%29.svg/800px-March_of_Meissen_locator_map_%281004%29.svg.png

One more photo:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d3/Hermann_von_Mei%C3%9Fen_und_Reglindis.jpg

[Voskos]

cool name. is he pontic Greek by any chance?

[Peterski]

is he pontic Greek by any chance?

Who?

[Voskos]

Who?

Mr Regelindis

[Peterski]

Mr Regelindis

It is a female name. :)

[RN97]

east baltic

[Rethel]

Regelinda's sculpture was made 200 years after her death...

[Ziveth]

East baltid.

[Ülev]

Regelinda's sculpture was made 200 years after her death...

but the same colleagues existed even earlier

https://zabytki.olsztyn.eu/fileadmin/_processed_/7/e/csm_baba_p_1_9bd1e91286.jpg
https://zabytki.olsztyn.eu/zabytki/rzezby-pomniki-tablice-i-kamienie-pamiatkowe/rzezby/posag-tzw-baby-pruskiej.html

[Jana]

Sub-nordic, her nose is long, straight and narrow.

[Rethel]

but the same colleagues existed even earlier

Even similar :rofl_002:

[Columella]

Overall closer to the pics provided for the various Baltic, Borreby and Coon's Neo danubian.

[Odin]

Baltid.

[Peterski]

Bump.

[Laberia]

cool name. is he pontic Greek by any chance?
:picard2:
No, cretan name.

[Laberia]

Bump.

I don't know, maybe i am wrong but there is something British in her.

[Peterski]

I don't know, maybe i am wrong but there is something British in her.

Maybe due to that 25% of Saxon admixture?

But according to Rethel, that sculpture doesn't show actual Regelinda, just some random woman...

[Voskos]

:picard2:
No, cretan name.

a gypsy.

[Rethel]

This is interesting https://facet.wp.pl/zabierajac-zonom-imiona-podkreslali-wyzszosc-wlasnej-kultury-i-tozsamosci-6002195159237249a

Another stick in the eye of mt-autosomalotards http://emotikona.pl/emotikony/pic/2patyk.gif

Conclusion: women in Medieval Europe, even if they were from
imperial house, had to often change the name (not surname, but
personal first name) to fit to husband's family, language and culture.
Very similar was also in other times, also in antiquity. This is also the
case, why Regelinda has german name, not slavic, similar like Sygryda
from Sweden-Denmark-England.

BUT even in the same or similar cultural/lingustic enviroment name were changed.

For example Henry III. Salic renamed his wife from Gunhild to Kunegund (both germanic).

"Gunhilda and Henry were finally betrothed at Pentecost 1035 in
Bambergand married one year later in Nijmegen. Upon her wedding,
she took the German name Kunigunde."