Gudesteus or Godesteus ( or ; or ) is a given name of Germanic origin, composed of the roots God- (God) and -þius, Gothic 𐌸𐌹𐌿𐍃, meaning 'servant'.Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo, Antroponimia medieval galega (ss. VIII–XII) (Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2014), p. 242. It was common in the northwest of the Iberia peninsula in the tenth and eleventh centuries. In one document from 1001 it was given the spelling Gaudesteo.Manuel C. Díaz y Díaz (1994), "La vida literaria en el mundo altomedieval", Acta historica et archaeologica mediaevalia 14–15 (221): 63n. It may refer to:
Gudesteus (bishop of Oviedo) (died 1069) Gudesteus (bishop of Iria) (died 1008 or 1012)
Gudesteo González, captured at the Battle of Morella
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