At 8:52:05 PM on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, alexandru_mg3
wrote:
[...]
> George, Gyula is obviously from Iuliu(s)
And yet the name regularly appears in medieval records as
<Gyula>, occasionally <Geula> or <Gula>, even in Latin
contexts: e.g., <Gyula filius Ladizlai>, <Tiburtius, Gyula,
Alexander et Helias comites vice regia discutientes>,
<magistri Gyule filii comitis Baldini iuvenis nostri ...
magister Gyula simul cum Stephano fratre suo>, <venerabilis
uir magister Nycholaus sancte Strigoniensis ecclesie electus
eiusdemque loci comes perpetuus aule nostre cancellarius et
magister Gyula filius Ladislay woyewode frater eiusdem>,
<Thomas ... pro se et pro duobus filys suis Gula et Paulo
vocatis>, <Fassio Comitis Mathie et Ratholdi filiorum condam
Rolandi Bani fratris Comitis Giula Judicis Curiae Regiae
super possessione Aravicah in Comitatu Posegensi pro matre
sua relicta ... condam Rolandi>, <Stephanus filius Gule de
Puruzlov>, etc. One also occasionally find <Jula> ~ <Iula>,
but not <Iulius> or the like, though <Julian> and <Julianus>
are found. (Citations from Fehértói Katalin, Árpád-kori
szemalynévtár (1000-1301).)
Brian