Alphons

Alphons
Alfonso II of Asturias
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameGermanic languages
Meaning"Noble brave"
Popularitysee popular names
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Alphons (Latinized Alphonsus, Adelphonsus, or Adefonsus) is a male given name recorded from the 8th century (Alfonso I of Asturias, r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom in the Iberian Peninsula. In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the Hispanic and Portuguese royal families.[1]

It is derived from a Gothic name, or a conflation of several Gothic names; from *Aþalfuns, composed of the elements aþal "noble" and funs "eager, brave, ready", and perhaps influenced by names such as *Alafuns, *Adefuns and *Hildefuns. It is recorded as Adefonsus in the 9th and 10th century,[2] and as Adelfonsus, Adelphonsus in the 10th to 11th. The reduced form Alfonso is recorded in the late 9th century, and the Portuguese form Afonso from the early 11th[3][4] and Anfós in Catalan from the 12th century until the 15th.[5]

Variants of the name include: Alonso (Spanish), Alfonso (Spanish and Italian), Alfons (Dutch, German, Catalan, Polish, Croatian and Scandinavian), Afonso (Portuguese and Galician), Alphonse, Alfonse (French and English), etc.

Middle Ages

Iberian royal families

Asturias/Leon/Castile/Spain
Aragon & Naples

Other

  • Alfonso Jordan (1103–1148)
  • Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220–1271)
  • Alfonso of Valladolid (c. 1270 – c. 1347), Jewish convert to Christianity, philosopher, and mathematician
  • Alphonso, Earl of Chester (1273–1284), first son of Edward I of England, named after his godfather Alfonso X of Castile; died in childhood
  • Juan Alfonso de Baena (c. 1375 – c. 1434), Castilian troubadour

Early modern period

  • Alphonse Daudet, French novelist and historian
  • Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
  • Alphonse de Tonty, Baron de Paludy (c. 1659 – 1727)
  • Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara
  • Alfonso II, Count of Provence, second son of Alfonso II of Aragon
  • Alfonso III d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio
  • Alfonso of Castile, Prince of Asturias, figurehead of rebelling magnates against his brother King Henry IV of Castile
  • Alfonso of Hauteville, Prince of Capua
  • Alphonsus Liguori, Roman Catholic theologian (1696–1787)
  • Joseph-Alphonse Esménard (1770–1811)

Modern period

Iberian/Sicilian nobility

Alfons

  • Alfons Almi (1904–1991), Finnish opera singer and administrator
  • Alfons van Blaaderen (born 1963), Dutch physicist
  • Alfons Geleyns (1887–1914), Belgian private
  • Alfons Goppel (1905–1991), German politician
  • Alfons Gorbach (1898–1972), Austrian politician
  • Alfons Grotowski (1833–1922), Polish engineer
  • Alfons Jēgers (1919–1999), Latvian football and hockey player
  • Alfons Karpiński (1875–1961), Polish painter
  • Alfons Rebane (1908–1976), Estonian military commander
  • Alfons Rissberger (born 1948), German author

Alphonse

Alfonso

  • Alfonso Cuarón, Mexican cinematographer
  • Alfonso Calderon (activist), Spanish-born gun control activist
  • Alfonso Calderón (poet), Chilean poet and writer
  • Alfonso Soriano, American baseball player
  • Alfonso Lizarazo, Colombian host and politician
  • Alfonso Mejia-Arias, Mexican musician, writer, social activist and politician
  • Alfonso Ribeiro, Caribbean-American actor and game show host
  • Alfonso John Romero, American video-game designer
  • Alfonso Pérez, Spanish football player
  • Alfonso Oiterong, Palauan politician, vice president
  • Alicia Alfonso (born 1963), Uruguayan actress
  • Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist
  • José Alfonso Belloso y Sánchez (1873–1938), Salvadorean archbishop
  • Miguel Alfonso Pérez Aracil, Spanish football player

Alfonse

Alphonso

  • Alphonso Davies, Canadian soccer player born in Ghana, who grew up in Edmonton

As a surname

Alphonse, Alphonso, Alfonso is occasionally seen as a surname derived from the given name, the latter descending from Asturias and Cantabria.[6]

Pseudonym

  • Bill Alfonso, ring name of William Matthew Sierra, former professional wrestling referee & manager

Stage name

  • Alfons, the stage name of Emmanuel Peterfalvi, a French comedian

Fictional characters

  • Alphonso, protagonist in Alfonso und Estrella, an opera by Franz Schubert
  • Don Alfonso, character in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte
  • Alphonso MacKenzie, fictional character in the Marvel Universe
  • Alfie Atkins, known as Alfons Åberg in Swedish, character created by Gunilla Bergström from Sweden
  • Alfonzo Dominico Jones, a dog in the Australian television series SeaChange
  • Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, character in the comic strip Dick Tracy
  • Alphonse and Gaston, French duo in a comic strip created by Frederick Burr Opper
  • Alphonse Elric from Fullmetal Alchemist
  • Alfons Heiderich from Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa
  • Alphonse Mephisto, fictional character in the animated television series South Park
  • Alphonso Ali, minor character in Bloom County
  • Monsieur Alphonse, main character from Alexandre Dumas fils's play from 1873, who was a procurer (now in Polish alfons is often used as a synonym of procurer, so name Alfons became very rare in Poland)
  • Monsieur Alfonse, character in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo! played by the actor Kenneth Connor
  • The name of a number of pets and the Patlabor of Noa Izumi from the anime Patlabor
  • Oren Pierre Alfonso from Kamen Rider Gaim
  • Alfonso "French" Sosa, a main character from The OA

See also

  • Afonso
  • Ildefonso (disambiguation)

References

  1. ^ "Alphonso" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. I (9th ed.). 1878. pp. 615–619.
  2. ^ In the genitive, Adefonsi.
  3. ^ José Pedro Machado, Dicionário Onomástico Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa
  4. ^ E. Förstemann, Altdeutsches Namenbuch (1856:133, 145).
  5. ^ Diccionari d'Història de Catalunya; 62nd ed.; Barcelona; 1998; ISBN 84-297-3521-6; p. 25.
  6. ^ "Heraldica del apellido Alfonso".
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