Berengar

Berengar is a masculine name of some popularity among certain noble families during the Middle Ages, especially the Unruochings and those related. Bérenger is the French form and Berengario the Italian. The Latin form is Berengarius - compare the feminine equivalent, Berengaria. The name ultimately derived from Germanic roots meaning "bear" and "spear" (cf. Geir, Gerald).

  • Berengar of Toulouse
  • Berengar I of Neustria
  • Berengar II of Neustria
  • Berengar I of Italy
  • Berengar II of Italy
  • Berengar of Tours, theologian
  • Berengar, Bishop of Venosa
  • Juhel Berengar

Berenguer is the Catalan form of the name. Berenguier/Berengier is the Occitan.

  • Berenguier de Palazol
  • Berenguer d'Anoia
  • Berengier Trobel
  • Berenguer de Palou II, bishop of Barcelona

It's also a compound name with "Raymond" in the family of the counts of Barcelona and Provence.

  • Ramon Berenguer (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Berenguer Ramon (disambiguation), multiple people

Berenger, Bérenger, or Beringer may refer to:

  • Alphonse-Marie-Marcellin-Thomas Bérenger, French lawyer (1785–1866)
  • Berenger Fredoli, French bishop (c. 1250–1323)
  • Bérenger Saunière, French priest (1852–1917)
  • Beringer Vineyards
  • Casimiro Berenguer, the Puerto Rican Nationalist during the Ponce Massacre
  • Paul Bérenger, Mauritian politician (born 1945)
  • Tom Berenger, American actor (born 1949)
  • Victor Henri Bérenger, French ambassador to the United States
  • Bérenger, a character in the play Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
  • Bearenger, a character in Tails Sky Patrol


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