Adaloald

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Adaloald (also Adalwald, Adulubaldus ; * 602 in Monza; † 626 ) was king of the Lombards in the years 615–626 .

Life

Adaloald was born in 602 as the son of King Agilulf and the Theudelinde and was baptized Catholic by Secundus of Trient the following year , which marked a clear distance from the Lombards' denomination, which was mostly Arian at the time . In July 604, following Roman traditions, he was raised to co-ruler by public acclamation in the Circus of Milan. At this celebration, the engagement of Adaloald, arranged by King Agilulf, to a daughter of the Frankish King Theudebert II took place. Since Adaloald was still a minor when his father died in 615, his mother Theudelinde took over the regency. She tried in vain to get the Lombards to turn to Catholicism. Under Adaloald's rule the churches were repaired and rich gifts were given to "venerable places". However, Adaloald was considerate of the Arian Lombards, so that the Visigoth king Sisebut warned him in a letter to act with greater zeal against the heretics .

Soon after Adaloald's rule, the exarch Eleutherius waged a hapless war against the Lombards under their general Sundrarius, which ended with the Eastern Romans / Byzantines again having to promise tribute payments.

Adaloald showed signs of mental illness from 624 onwards. Various contradicting reports about further events circulate in the sources. Apparently there was opposition from Lombard princes to Adaloald and his mother's policies. They made his brother-in-law Arioald , Duke of Turin , king in 626. Adaloald was overthrown, possibly poisoned.

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literature

  • Ludo Moritz Hartmann : History of Italy in the Middle Ages . Vol. II, part 1, Wigand, Leipzig 1900, pp. 170 ff .; Part 2, Perthes, Gotha 1903, p. 30 ff. ( Digitized version ) - partially outdated
  • Thomas Hodgkin: Italy and her Invaders Vol. VI, Oxford 1895, p. 108ff ( digitized version ) - partially outdated
  • Charlotte Schroth-Köhler: Adalwald . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 1, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-7608-8901-8 , Sp. 106.
  • Wilfried Menghin : The Lombards . Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1985.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum IV, 25
  2. ^ Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum IV, 27
  3. ↑ possibly the coronation and engagement did not take place until 610. see: Christian Settipani , La préhistoire des Capétiens, 1st part: Mérovingiens, Carolingiens et Robertiens, 1993, p. 84.
  4. ^ A b Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum IV, 30
  5. ↑ a b c Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum IV, 41
  6. ↑ Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders Vol VI, pp. 150f
  7. ↑ Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders Vol. VI, pp. 155f
  8. ↑ a b Fredegar , IV, 49-50, Monumenta Germaniae Historica : MGH SS rer Merov II, p. 145.
predecessor Office successor
Agilulf King of the Lombards
615–626 		Arioald
personal data
SURNAME Adaloald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adalwald; Adulubaldus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION King of the Lombards
DATE OF BIRTH 602
PLACE OF BIRTH Monza
DATE OF DEATH 626