# Goswin

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'''Goswin''' is a [Germanic male given name](/source/Germanic_name) originally meaning "friend (''win'') of the [Goths](/source/Goths) (''gos'')"<ref name=goos>[https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/verklaring/naam/Goswijn Goswijn] in the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands.</ref> 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](/source/Low_Countries).<ref name=goos/><ref>[https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/Goos Goos] and [https://www.meertens.knaw.nl/nvb/naam/is/Gosse Gosse] in the Corpus of First Names in The Netherlands.</ref>  [Latinized](/source/Latinisation_of_names) versions include ''Gos(s)uinus'', ''Gosvinus'', and ''Goswinus'', while in [French](/source/French_language) the name has been rendered ''Gosvin'' and ''Gossuin'' (e.g. [Gossuin d'Anchin](/source/Goswin_of_Anchin)). 

People with this name include:

*{{ill|Goswin (bishop of Osnabrück)|de|Goswin (Osnabrück)}} ({{reign|829|845}})
*[Gosse Ludigman](/source/Gosse_Ludigman) (died 1000), possibly fictitious governor of Western Frisia
*[Goswin I of Heinsberg](/source/Goswin_I_of_Heinsberg) (ca. 1060–1128), Limburg count, lord of Valkenburg
*[Goswin of Anchin](/source/Goswin_of_Anchin) (c. 1085–1165), Flemish Benedictine abbot and saint
*[Goswin (bishop of Poznań)](/source/Goswin_(bishop_of_Pozna%C5%84)), 12th-century Polish Bishop
*[Goswin of Bossut](/source/Goswin_of_Bossut) (fl. 1230s), Cistercian writer
*[Gozewijn van Randerath](/source/Gozewijn_van_Randerath) (fl. 1250), Bishop of Utrecht 
*{{illm|Goswin von Herike|de||et||lt|Gosvinas fon Herikė|lv|Gosvins fon Hērike|ru|Госвин фон Херике}} (died 1359), ruler of Livonia
*[Goswin Haex van Loenhout](/source/Goswin_Haex_van_Loenhout) (died 1475), Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht
*[Goswin van der Weyden](/source/Goswin_van_der_Weyden) (1455–1543), Flemish painter
*[Goswin Nickel](/source/Goswin_Nickel) (1582–1664), German Jesuit priest 
*[Goswin de Fierlant](/source/Goswin_de_Fierlant) (ca. 1735—1804), Flemish councillor
*[Goswin de Stassart](/source/Goswin_de_Stassart) (1780–1854), Dutch-Belgian politician
*{{illm|Gozewijn Jan Loncq|de|}} (1810–1887), Dutch physician and University Dean
*[Goswin Karl Uphues](/source/Goswin_Karl_Uphues)(1841–1916), German philosopher
*{{illm|Goswin von der Ropp|de||no||sv|}} (1850–1919), German historian

==See also==
* [Goos (name)](/source/Goos_(name))
* [Goosen](/source/Goosen), [Goossen](/source/Goossen) and [Goossens](/source/Goossens)
* [Gosse (disambiguation)](/source/Gosse_(disambiguation))
* [De Geus](/source/De_Geus)

==References==
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Category:Germanic masculine given names
Category:Masculine given names

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