Bertha 1083916 225328592 2008-07-13T03:10:51Z GerardKennedy 1075978 {{Infobox Given Name Revised | name = Bertha | image= | imagesize= | caption= | pronunciation= | gender = Female | meaning = Old German for ''bright'' | region = | origin = | related names = | footnotes = }} '''Bertha''' is a female given name, which is derived from the Old High German word ''berht'' meaning "bright". * [[Perchta|Berchta]] ''(Bertha, Percht, Perchta)'', a goddess in South German mythology *women called Bertha ** [[Bertha of Kent|Saint Bertha of Kent]] ([[539]]-c. [[612]]), [[Queen]] of [[Kent]] ** [[Saint Bertha of Val d'Or]] (d. c. [[690]]), [[Abbess]] ** [[Saint Bertha of Artois]] (mid [[7th century]] - [[July 4]], [[725]]), Abbess, daughter of Count [[Rigobert]] and Ursana ** [[Bertrada of Laon]] (also called Bertha with the big feet) ([[720]] – [[July 12]], [[783]]), Frankish queen ** [[Saint Bertha of Bingen]] (fl. c. [[840]]?), mother of Saint Rupert of Bingen ** Bertha, a daughter of [[Charlemagne]] ** [[Bertha, daughter of Lothair II]] ** [[Bertha of Burgundy]], queen of France ** [[Bertha of Holland]], queen of France ** [[Bertha of Sulzbach]], Byzantine empress ** [[Bertha of Swabia]], queen of Burgundy ** [[Bertha von Putelendorf]], Saxon noble ** [[Bertha von Suttner]], Austrian novelist and pacifist ** [[Bertha Wilson]], first female [[Puisne Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] ** [[Blessed Bertha de Bardi]] [[Florence]]; (d. [[March 24]], [[1163]]) * [[Sándor Bertha]] ([[August 19]], [[1843]] - [[November 24]], [[1912]]), Hungarian composer * [[Berta Grosser]], German actress * [[Bertha Sánchez]], Colombian long-distance runner * Common spelling of the Hungarian Name, [[Berta]] It can also refer to: * [[Big Bertha (Howitzer)]] ("''Dicke Bertha''"), nickname of several World War I artillery weapons * a Victorian type of ladies' [[Collar (clothing)|collar]]. * [[Hurricane Bertha (disambiguation)]] for other storms named ** [[Hurricane Bertha (1996)|Hurricane Bertha]], Atlantic hurricane in 1996 * [[154 Bertha]], an asteroid. * Bertha or [[Berta people]], an ethnic group from eastern Sudan and western Ethiopia. toponymy * [[Bertha, Minnesota]] * [[Bertha Township, Minnesota]] popular culture: * [[Big Bertha (drum)]], the so-called "largest drum in the world", owned by the Longhorn Band of the University of Texas at Austin * [[Bertha (TV series)]], a stop-motion animated BBC children's series of 13 parts * "[[Bertha (song)]]", by the [[Grateful Dead]] * ''[[Bertha (Rorem)]]'', an opera by [[Ned Rorem]]. ==See also== * [[Berta]] * [[Big Bertha]] {{disambig}} [[Category:Given names]] [[Category:English given names]] [[br:Bertha]] [[de:Bertha]] [[eo:Berto]] [[fr:Berthe]] [[it:Berta]] [[nl:Bertha]] [[pl:Berta]]