Guelph /ɡwɛlf/ noun2 •(historical) 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. •(historical) 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. — 1973 formsGuelphs