Adgandestrius

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Adgandestrius was the Latinized name of a prince of the Germanic tribe of the chat , which the Roman Senate as murderers of Cherusker -Fürsten Arminius offered. The offer was formally rejected.

Its Germanic name is uncertain. Jacob Grimm suspected the composition "ad Gandestrii" so "at / zum Gänserich". However, L. Freytag refused, since Tacitus does not otherwise use ad in front of him. More likely it was a Latinization of the Celtic name "Hadgan", with the weak initial H in the Latinization being omitted. The name Hadgan can still be found today with family origins from former Celtic areas.

Tacitus does not explain why this chat of all people harbored such a great hatred of Arminius that he even offered in writing to the Roman Senate for an assassination attempt. The traditional family tree of the Cheruscan clans shows, however, that the Cheruscan princely children of his time were generally married to the Chatti princely children. Arminius had obviously broken this rule by kidnapping Segestes' daughter Thusnelda . The assumption that Adgandestrius drew his extraordinary hatred from the fact that he was the duped fiancee is therefore not too far off. It was assumed early on that the Hagen of the later Nibelungenlied was derived from this .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tacitus , Annalen , 2, 88 :

    “I find among the writers of senatorial rank of this time that a letter from the Chatto prince Adgandestrius was read out in the senate, in which he promised the death of Arminius if poison was sent to him to carry out the murder. But the decision had been given to him, not cunningly and not secretly, but openly and with weapons in hand the Roman people would take revenge on their enemies. "

  2. ↑ Ludwig Freytag, Tiberius and Tacitus. Publishing company. Henschel, Berlin 1870, pp. 134–135, footnote 6 ( online ):

    “In order to get rid of the name Adgandestrius, J. Grimm suggested reading“ ad Gandestrii ”and declared Gandestrius as a gander (gander). Nipperdey rejects this at this point: "But the nesting that results from that change is quite alien to Tacitus."

  3. ↑ Franz Michael Wittmann: The Teutons and the Romans in their mutual relationship before the fall of the Western Empire. Munich 1851, p. 15, footnote 2 ( online ):

    “It seems to me that this name, which all manuscripts have, was changed without any need. Adgandestrius, imposed on Chattas by the Romans, does not seem to be of German, but of Gallic descent, as his name might prove; because Gallic names are often put together with "ad", eg Adbucillus (Caes, bg III, 59), Adcantuanus (ib. 22.), Admagetobria (ib. I, 32). "

  4. ^ Ancestry.com.australia. In: Immigration Lists. Retrieved August 26, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Tacitus, Annals 1, 55 :

    "His [Segestes] hatred also grew because Arminius had kidnapped his daughter, who was engaged to someone else."

  6. ^ Review by Franz-Joseph Mone, sources and research on German literature and language. In: Allgemeine Literaturzeitung. 1831, third volume, Sep.-Dec, royal. Saxon. Newspaper exp. Hall 1881, p. 267:

    "... and in the name of Adgandestrius even the hagen of the song could lie."

personal data
SURNAME Adgandestrius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gandestrius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Chatting
DATE OF BIRTH 1st century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH after 19