GUELPH

{ Guelph, Guelf } (gwĕlf), n. [[It. Guelfo, from Welf, the name of a German family.]] (Hist.) One of a faction in Germany and Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which supported the House of Guelph and the pope, and opposed the Ghibellines, or faction of the German emperors.