Goswin
Goswin is a Germanic male given name originally meaning "friend (win) of the Goths (gos)"[1] 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.[1][2] Latinized versions include Gos(s)uinus, Gosvinus, and Goswinus, while in French the name has been rendered Gosvin and Gossuin (e.g. Gossuin d'Anchin).
People with this name include:
- Goswin (bishop of Osnabrück) (r. 829–845)
- Gosse Ludigman (died 1000), possibly fictitious governor of Western Frisia
- Goswin I of Heinsberg (ca. 1060–1128), Limburg count, lord of Valkenburg
- Goswin of Anchin (c. 1085–1165), Flemish Benedictine abbot and saint
- Goswin (bishop of Poznań), 12th-century Polish Bishop
- Goswin of Bossut (fl. 1230s), Cistercian writer
- Gozewijn van Randerath (fl. 1250), Bishop of Utrecht
- Goswin von Herike (died 1359), ruler of Livonia
- Goswin Haex van Loenhout (died 1475), Auxiliary Bishop of Utrecht
- Goswin van der Weyden (1455–1543), Flemish painter
- Goswin Nickel (1582–1664), German Jesuit priest
- Goswin de Fierlant (ca. 1735—1804), Flemish councillor
- Goswin de Stassart (1780–1854), Dutch-Belgian politician
- Gozewijn Jan Loncq (1810–1887), Dutch physician and University Dean
- Goswin Karl Uphues(1841–1916), German philosopher
- Goswin von der Ropp (1850–1919), German historian