Goswin

Goswin is a Germanic male given name originally meaning "friend (win) of the Goths (gos)"^[1] As Gosewijn, Goswijn or Gozewijn (with short forms Goos, Goes, Gosse and Geus) it was quite common in the Middle Ages in the Low Countries.^[1][2] Latinized versions include Gos(s)uinus, Gosvinus, and Goswinus, while in French the name has been rendered Gosvin and Gossuin (e.g. Gossuin d'Anchin).

People with this name include:

• Goswin (bishop of Osnabrück) [de] (r. 829–845)
• Gosse Ludigman (died 1000), possibly fictitious governor of Western Frisia
• Goswin I of Heinsberg (ca. 1060–1128), Limburg count, lord of Valkenburg
• Goswin of Anchin (c. 1085–1165), Flemish Benedictine abbot and saint
• Goswin (bishop of Poznań), 12th-century Polish Bishop
• Goswin of Bossut (fl. 1230s), Cistercian writer
• Gozewijn van Randerath (fl. 1250), Bishop of Utrecht
• Goswin von Herike [de; et; lt; lv; ru] (died 1359), ruler of Livonia
• Goswin Haex van Loenhout (died 1475), Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht
• Goswin van der Weyden (1455–1543), Flemish painter
• Goswin Nickel (1582–1664), German Jesuit priest
• Goswin de Fierlant (ca. 1735—1804), Flemish councillor
• Goswin de Stassart (1780–1854), Dutch-Belgian politician
• Gozewijn Jan Loncq [de] (1810–1887), Dutch physician and University Dean
• Goswin Karl Uphues(1841–1916), German philosopher
• Goswin von der Ropp [de; no; sv] (1850–1919), German historian

See also

• Goos (name)
• Goosen, Goossen and Goossens
• Gosse (disambiguation)
• De Geus