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*Monlezun, Jean Justin. [http://books.google.com/books/pdf/Histoire_de_la_Gascogne.pdf?id=sHW_kCR87l8C&output=pdf&sig=KDJUp8tgj00AvnNhQuhkFl1Daow ''Histoire de la Gascogne''.] 1864. |
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Austrovald, Astrobald, and Austrevald[1] (died 607) was the Duke of Aquitaine from 587.
Austrovald was probably a count of Toulouse until that year, when he was appointed to succeeded the dux Desiderius in Aquitaine, by King Guntram.[2]
Under Chilperic I and then the usurper Gundoald, a dux named Bladast was acting as duke over the region of Aquitaine. The dux Austrovald was sent in 587 to pacify the Basques of Vasconia, a difficult enterprise in which he was none too successful, for he lost many men to captivity and the Basques are found as far as the Garonne by 602.[3] Bordeaux probably formed the chief fortified frontier city of Austrovald's watch.[4] It is probable that the Basques were forced to pay tribute, but left under their own laws.[5] It is out of this that a separate Gascon duchy was created in 602, probably within Aquitaine.[4]
In 589, Austrovald held command of the forces of Périgueux, Agen, Saintes, and Bordeaux, when he invaded Septimania.[6] Twice he marched on Visigothic Carcassonne but failed to take it.[7]
Austrovald was succeeded by Sereus after a short reign.[8]
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- Higounet, Charles. Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age. Bordeaux, 1963.
- Gregory of Tours. Historia Francorum. translated Earnest Brehaut, 1916.
- Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., translator. The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations. Greenwood Press: Connecticut, 1960.
- Collins, Roger. The Basques. Blackwell Publishing: London, 1990.
- Sedycias, João. História da Língua Espanhola.
- Lewis, Archibald R. "The Dukes in the Regnum Francorum, A.D. 550-751." Speculum, Vol. 51, No 3 (July 1976), pp 381–410
- Monlezun, Jean Justin. Histoire de la Gascogne. 1864.
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