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- SaintWynfrith, a.d. 680?–755?, English monk who became a missionary in Germany.
- a jovial innkeeper in George Farquhar’s The Beaux’ Stratagem.
- (lowercase) any landlord or innkeeper.
- a male given name: from a Latin word meaning “doer of good.”
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- Saint,died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
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- pope a.d. 530–532.
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- pope a.d. 607.
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- Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
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- died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
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- pope a.d. 896.
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- antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
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- Benedetto Caetani, c1235–1303, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1294–1303.
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- Pietro Tomacelli, died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
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- Saint . original name Wynfrith . ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5
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- original name Benedict Caetano . ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)
“innkeeper,” from Will Boniface, character in George Farquhar’s comedy “The Beaux’ Stratagem” (1707).
Contrary to the common opinion, this name derives not from Latin bonifacius ‘well-doer,’ but from bonifatius, from bonum ‘good’ and fatum ‘fate.’ The change to Bonifacius was due to pronunciation and from this was deduced a false etymology. Bonifatius is frequent on Latin inscriptions. Bonifacius is found only twice and these late (Thesaurus) [“Dictionary of English Surnames”]