I wonder what went up kin Ludwig and Queen Marie Theresia to name their younger daughters with such unusual names among german RFs:
Notburga, Wiltrud, Helmtrude, Dietlinde and Gundeline, after an Adegunde (not a name I would choose for a daughter of mine) and the most current Maria and Mathilde.
Sometimes a name can make all the difference.
I once read that when the french king Louis VIII was looking for a bride in Castille, he was offered the hand of Pss. Urraca.
But the french thought the name so unusual they refused and choose her sister Blanche, a name more acceptable for the delicate french medieval ears.
Blanche became the mother of St.Louis IX.
Urraca would eventually marry king Afonso II of Portugal, where the name was not so strange.
Afonso II already had an aunt named Urraca, who married king Ferdinand of Leon.
Nowadays, it would sound very, very odd to name a child Urraca.
Besides, "urraca" in spanish translates as Magpie - in portuguese "Pêga" which is not a very nice thing to call a woman... if you know what I mean ;-)
