Henry staat niet in de Bijbel — Het betekent “Heerser van het thuis”

Henry is not in the Bible. It is Germanic — Heimirich, from heim, home, and rih, ruler. A home ruler. Eight kings of England carried it, ending with Henry VIII, and the gap between what the name means and what those men did with it is instructive. What does the name Henry mean? Ruler of the home. The first element is the ordinary word for a household or a homestead; the second is the same rih behind Richard and Eric.…