Adalgisel Grimo

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Copy of the will of Adalgisel Grimo from the 10th century. The certificate is considered the oldest document from the Rhineland ( Landeshauptarchiv Koblenz , inventory 1 a, number 1)

Adalgisel Grimo († after 634) was a deacon and member of the Austrasian nobility. He is historically significant primarily because of his will, written on December 30, 634, the oldest known early medieval document between the Meuse and the Rhine , which gives important information about the settlement, constitutional, economic and social history of this area.

Adalgisel Grimo is named with a double name that appears occasionally in early medieval sources; "Grimo" is the pet form of a larger, polysyllabic form of the name. He was educated and trained at the Episcopal Church of Verdun . He was a deacon under Bishop Paulus von Verdun and founded the Abbey of Tholey . He had an extensive free float between the Meuse and the Rhine, which he bequeathed in his will to the Abbey of St. Maximin near Trier and the Monastery of Longuyon, among others .

There are references to his family relationships in his will. Accordingly, his sister was a deacon named Ermengundis. He also mentions that his aunt, whose name is not mentioned, is buried in the church of St. George of Amay . It is Oda von Amay (also: Chrodoara), whose empty sarcophagus was found in 1977 during archaeological excavations in the choir of the Romanesque collegiate church of Saint-Georges in Amay. Oda was married to a duke named Bodogisel , who belonged to a North Aquitan noble clan. The discovery of the sarcophagus confirmed older assumptions about Adalgisel belonging to this clan, whose members can be recognized by the name ending "-gisil".

The will of Adalgisel Grimo, written in Latin , is available in a copy from the 10th century and is kept in the Koblenz State Archives. The authoritative edition of the text was presented in 1932 by Wilhelm Levison .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine Territories I, Coblenz 1860, No. 6, pp. 5-8.
  2. ↑ Herrmann 1975, p. 77.
  3. ^ Jacques Willems: Le Sarcophage de Sancta Chrodoara en l'eglise collegiale Saint-Georges d´Amay . Amay 1978 (Cercle Archéologique Hesbaye-Condroz, 15).
  4. ↑ Jacques Stiennon, Le sarcopharge de St Chrodoara in Saint-Georges d'Amay. Essai d'interprétation d'une découverte exceptionnelle . In: Comptes-rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 123e année, N. 1, 1979, 10-31. [1]
  5. ↑ Herrmann 1975, p. 78.
  6. ↑ LHAKo inventory 1 A, No. 1 Grimo Testament.

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SURNAME Adalgisel Grimo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Deacon and member of the Austrasian nobility
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century or 7th century
DATE OF DEATH after 634