Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Was Charlemagne French or German?" video.
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@vincentb9827 : The mens names is in this case Wilhelm ( William/ Willem/ Guillaume/ Guglielmo), while Canaris, if you mean the german intelligence officer of wwll, is a family name. Some germans have foreign names, because their ancestors had been, for example, french. In second half of 17th century a lot of protestantic French persons had to flee and moved into protestant german regions, a neighbor of me has the family name Jourdan. Also, especially in 16th century educated non noble germans translated their geman family name into greek or latin. So a Hans Bäcker ( Baker) became Hans Pistorius, which was possible in those days. Arminius is the name, how Romans called this historical person, but even still today some midaged german men have the name Armin, i doubt that this is really a germanic mens name, it was either a ,romanisation' ( in german : Verballhornung) of a similar sounding germanic name, or could be a kind of translation , because german mens name parts have often a ,manly' meaning, so perhaps Arm... is a translation of a germanic name , containing ,weapon'. Also womens names contain sometimes ,military ' words, Brünnhilde for example , contains Brünne ( shirt of mail- or scalearmour).
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