Hohenstaufen

English Etymology Borrowed from en de Hohenstaufen, from de hohen high + de Staufen (from de Staufer member of a Swabian dynasty, from en goh stouf chalice, related to en gmw-pro *staupijan to pour), first used to distinguish a hill called Staufer in the Swabian Jura from the village of the same name in the valley below. (See Hohenstaufen#Name Hohenstaufen § Name). Proper noun en historical A mediaeval (11th—14th centuries) German dynasty of Swabian origin, from which came numerous monarchs, including dukes of Duchy of Swabia Swabia and emperors of the Holy Roman Empire. en 1889 Ugo Balzani The Popes and the Hohenstaufen https://books.google.com.au/books?id=n7M9AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Hohenstaufen%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Hohenstaufen%22&f=false Longman Longmans, Green, and Co. en 1970 Patience Andrewes Frederick II of Hohenstaufen https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZA1oAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Hohenstaufen%22&dq=%22Hohenstaufen%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiCpfyoiLDzAhUztTEKHZVZCU8Q6AF6BAgHEAI w:Oxford University Press Usage notes Members of the family did not refer to themselves as Hohenstaufen, instead occasionally using variations of the toponymic surname de de Stauf. It was not until the 13th century that the name came to be applied to the family as a whole. Translations mediaeval dynasty originating in Swabia German: de Hohenstaufen ?, de Staufen ? Italian: it Hohenstaufen m, it Svevi m-p Marathi: mr होएनश्टाउफन n Sicilian: scn Hohenstaufen m