Godefroy

Godefroy is a surname of Old French origin, and originally a given name, cognate with Geoffrey/Geoffroy/Jeffrey/Jeffries, Godfrey, Gottfried, etc.

Godefroy or Godefroi may refer to:

People

Given name

• Godefroi, Count of Durbuy (d. before 1124), son of Henry I
• Godefroi, Count of Montaigu (died 1161), Count of Clermont, Count of Duras
• Godefroi, Comte d'Estrades (1607–1686), French diplomat and marshal
• Godefroi, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1823–1871), French politician
• Godefroy de Blonay (1869–1937), a member of the International Olympic Committee and one of the founders and first president of the Swiss Olympic Association
• Godefroy Calès (1799–1868), French physician and politician
• Éléonore-Louis Godefroi Cavaignac (1801–1845), French politician and journalist
• Godefroy de Forçant (died 1809), French Navy officer and adventurer
• Godefroy Durand (1832–1896), German-born French illustrator and draughtsman
• Godefroy Engelmann (1788–1839), Franco-German lithographer and chromolithographer
• Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon (1636–1721)
• Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne (1728–1792), Duke of Bouillon
• Godefroy Vujicic (born 1975), French classical cellist
• Godefroy Wendelin (1580–1667), astronomer from the County of Loon (now in Belgium)
• Godefroy Zumoffen (1848–1928), French Jesuit archaeologist and geologist

Surname

• Andrew Godefroy (born 1972), Canadian strategic analyst and science and technology historian
• Charles Godefroy (1888–1958), French aviator noted for flying through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in 1919
• Denis Godefroy (1549–1622), French jurist
• Eliza Anderson Godefroy (1779–1839), believed to be the first woman to edit a general-interest magazine in the United States, wife of Maximilian Godefroy
• Frédéric Godefroy (1826–1897), French author
• Hugh C. Godefroy, World War II flying ace with the Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force - see List of World War II flying aces
• Jean-Pierre Godefroy (born 1944), French politician
• Jocelyn Godefroi (1880–1969), British translator
• Maximilian Godefroy (1765–c. 1838), French-American architect
• Thibault Godefroy (born 1985), French bobsledder
• Godefroy family, a French noble family

Other

• Raymond de Gaufredi (died 1310), sometimes anglicized as Raymond Godefroy, Minister General of the Franciscan Order from 1289 to 1295

Places

• La Godefroy, a commune in the Manche department of France
• Godefroy, Les Cayes, Haiti, a village in the Les Cayes municipality
• Godefroy River, Quebec, Canada

See also

• Galfrid
• Geoffrey (given name), Geoffroy (surname), Jeffrey, Jeffries, Jeffers
• Godfrey (name), Gottfried, Goffredo
• Godred/Guðrøðr
• Gofraid/Goraidh