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Adelheid
Adelheid Adelheid carries the full prestige of the medieval German aristocratic tradition — it is a name of empresses and saints, combining birth-rank with personal virtue in a way that suggests someone for whom nobility is a moral obligation as much as a social fact. Characters named Adelheid suit the highest level of Germanic historical fiction, from Ottonian imperial courts to the declining aristocracy of 19th-century Austrian novels.
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