< 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from liut, Mod. Ger. Leute, “people,” and pald, “bold,” i.e. “bold for the people”), the name which has been that of several European sovereigns.

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