English Dictionary

Guelph

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡwɛlf/

名詞

歴史的

(historical, politics) 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.

日本語の意味

中世イタリアの都市国家の政治において、教皇を支持し、ギベルリン派や神聖ローマ皇帝に対抗した派閥に属する人物や勢力を指す。

As a Guelph in Florence, he worked tirelessly to defend the city's allegiance to the papacy.

フィレンツェで教皇支持派の一員として、彼は都市の教皇への忠誠を守るために献身的に働いた。

意味（1）

(historical, politics) 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.

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.

意味（2）

(historical, politics) Any member of the German-Hanoverian Party (1867-1933), a conservative federalist political party in the German Empire and the Weimar Republic founded in protest of the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia.

Bismarck was aware of the opportunity which the Reichstag afforded the Guelphs.

Guelphs （ plural ）