From: Joao S. Lopes Message: 67834 Date: 2011-06-22
Venceslau (also Wenceslau) became a bit usual in Brazilian baptism records around the beginning of XVIII century. It has ver been very common or popular, and now it's very rare. Ladislau (cf. Lazsló, Vladislav) shows a similar temporal distribution.
JS Lopes
De: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> Para: cybalist@yahoogroups.com Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 22 de Junho de 2011 18:47 Assunto: Re: [tied] Another group of "Veneti"?
W dniu 2011-06-22 23:42, Joao S. Lopes pisze:
> As name of a saint, became widespread in Catholic countries: in
> Portuguese, Venceslau.
Good King Wenceslas (who knocked a bobby senseless right in the middle
of Marks and Spencer's) was Duke of Bohemia in the 10th century, when
Czech still had a nasal vowel in the name. Now he's known as Svaty'
Václav (= St. Wenceslas) in his home country.