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'Sigismund' (variants: Sigmund, Siegmund) is a German proper name, meaning "protection through victory", from Old High German ''sigu'' "victory" + ''munt'' "hand, protection". Tacitus Latinises it ''Segimundus''. It looks like there is an older form of the High German word "Sieg" (victory): ''sigis'', obviously Gothic and an inferred Germanic form, and there is a younger form: ''sigi'', which is Old Saxon or Old High German ''sigu'' (both from about 9th century). A 5th century Prince of Burgundy was known both as ''Sigismund'' and ''Sigimund'' (see Ernst Förstemann, Altdeutsche Personennamen, 1906; Henning Kaufmann, Altdeutsche Personennamen, Ergänzungsband,1968).
A Lithuanian name 'Žygimantas', meaning "wealth of (military) campaign", from Lithuanian ''žygis'' "campaign, march" + ''manta'' "goods, wealth" has been a substitution of the name ''Sigismund'' in the Lithuanian language, from which it was adopted by the Ruthenian language as Жыгімонт (such are the cases of Sigismund Kestutaitis, Sigismund Korybut, Sigismund I the Old, Sigismund II Augustus).
'Sigismund' was the name of several European nobles:

★ Saint Sigismund of Burgundy (died 523), King of the Burgundians

★ Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund of Luxembourg (1368–1437), Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia and Hungary

★ Sigismund Kestutaitis (c.1350–1440), Grand Duke of Lithuania

★ Sigismund Korybut (c.1395-c.1435), Lithuanian Duke, participated in Hussite Wars

★ Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (1427–1496), ruler of Further Austria

★ Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (1630-1665), ruler of Further Austria

★ Sigismund of Bavaria (1439–1501), a Duke of Bavaria

★ Sigismund I the Old (1467–1548), King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania

★ Sigismund II Augustus (1520–1572), King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania

★ Sigismund III Vasa (1566–1632), King of Sweden (as Sigismund) and Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania

★ Sigismund Báthory (1572–1613), Prince of Transylvania

★ Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1864-1866), the fourth child of Emperor Friedrich III, German Emperor and Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom.
'Sigismund/Siegmund' may also refer to:

★ Brother Sigismund of the Black Templars, founder of the Black Templars

★ Sigismund (bell), a famous bell in the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, cast in 1520

★ Siegmund, a focal character in Richard Wagner's ''Die Walküre''

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★ Sigmund (disambiguation)