Guelph

Etymology
From, from , a Bavarian dynasty.

inherited from his Italian wife, the Countess, possessions including Tuscany, Ferrara, Modena, Mantua and Reggio, which played a role in the. The Welf dynasty sided with the Pope in this controversy, so partisans of the Pope became known in Italy as Guelfi.

Noun

 * 1)  In the politics of medieval Italian city states, any member of a faction that supported the Pope in a long struggle against the Ghibellines and the Holy Roman Emperor.
 * 2) * 1893,, Guelphs and Ghibellines: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1250-1409, , page 13,
 * The parties of Guelph and Ghibelline raged as fiercely as if the lances of the German hosts were ever glimmering on the crest of the Alps, or as if the Lombard leagues were in constant watchfulness against an impending foe.Speaking generally, the Ghibellines were the party of the emperor, and the Guelphs the party of the Pope; the Ghibellines were on the side of authority, or sometimes of oppression, the Guelphs were on the side of liberty and self-government.
 * 1)  Any member of the  (1867-1933), a conservative federalist political party in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic founded in protest of the annexation of the  by the.

Usage notes
The division between Guelphs and Ghibellines in Italy persisted until the 15th century, long after the original controversy had been resolved.

Translations

 * Arabic: غولف
 * Azerbaijani: qvelf
 * Basque: Guelfo
 * Belarusian: гве́льф
 * Breton: Gwelf
 * Bulgarian: гибелли
 * Catalan: güelf, güelfa
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 歸爾甫
 * Czech: guelf
 * Danish: guelf, welf
 * Esperanto: Gelfo
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, Guelfe
 * Georgian: გველფ
 * German: ,
 * Greek: Γουέλφος
 * Hebrew: גואלפ
 * Hungarian: guelf
 * Icelandic: gvelf
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: Guelf
 * Italian:, guelfa
 * Japanese: 教皇派, ゲルフ
 * Korean: 구엘프
 * Marathi: ग्वेल्फ
 * Norwegian: guelf
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: guelfo, guelfa
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гве̏лфи
 * Roman:
 * Slovene: gvelf
 * Spanish: güelfo, güelfa
 * Thai: เกลฟ์
 * Ukrainian: ґве́льф

Proper noun

 * , a dynasty, a cadet branch of the Italian, founded in the 11th century by.

Usage notes
The became extinct with the death of  and Verona, in 1055. The duke's sister,, however, had married into the , so when her son Welf I (alternatively, Welf IV) inherited his uncle's properties, Welf was recreated as a cadet branch of Este.

The resulting branch may variously be called the House of Welf, the House of Guelph, the House of Welfe-Este, or, informally, the younger House of Welf.