Agiulf (warning)

Agiulf (also Achiuulf , Agriwulf , Aioulfus , Aiulfus , Agilulf , Aiulf ; † 457 by execution in Portus Cale ) was a ruler of the Suebi in the Galician Sueb Empire in the 5th century and leader of a revolt against the foreign rule of the Visigoths.

Life

Empire of the Suebi on the Iberian Peninsula (around 455)

Aioulf was a cliens (vassal) of the Visigoth Theodoric II. (R. 453-466) from the sex of the warning . After Theodoric II had defeated the Suebi Rechiars , which had invaded the Roman province of Tarraconensis in 456 , the Warne Agiulf was set by him as a kind of sub-king (or governor) over the Suebi, but Maldras was able to become king over part of the Swing up Suebi. Theodoric II moved on through the Baetica , but learned in Emerita of the uprising of Agiulf and of the overthrow and soon after that in the beginning of 457 the death of his friend, the emperor Avitus, and therefore decided to return to his kingdom. In April 457 he traveled back to Gaul from Emerita and defeated the rebel Agiulf with part of his Gothic army. The execution of Agiulf took place in June 457 in Portus Cale .

After Wilhelm Martens' translation into German, the following is reported in the "Getica" des Jordanes by Agiulf (here Agriwulf ):

“The victorious Theoderid, however, spared the subjugated and no longer let the fury endure them. He appointed his own vassal Agriwulf as master of the submissive Suavas. However, since the latter changed his mind as a result of the whisperings of the Suavs, he failed to carry out his master's orders; on the contrary, he believed, in a haughty lust for domination, to be able to hold the land with the same bravery with which he and his master had subjugated it. For he was a man from the Varner tribe , who stood far from the nobility of Gothic blood and therefore neither strived for freedom nor remained loyal to his patron. Upon hearing of this, Theoderid immediately sent an army against him to overthrow him from the presumed royal rule. After his arrival, the latter immediately defeated him in the first battle and carried out the punishment which was due to his deeds. For he was taken prisoner, and abandoned by his own, he atone with his head; and so he, who had believed he was allowed to despise the gracious lord, finally got to feel the anger of him. When the Suavas of their ruler saw the downfall, they sent priests of their country pleading for mercy to Theoderid. He received them with the reverence due priests, not only granting them impunity for the Suavas, but in a pious mood even allowing them to make a prince from among their people. That happened, and the Suavs raised the Rimismund to their chief. "

Agilolfinger

Jörg Jarnut regards this Agiulf (loudly, probably * Agil-wulf ) as the progenitor of the Agilolfinger and thus formulates a connection between the Agilolfinger and the warning. The fact that Agiulf appears to others as a “Goth” does not contradict Jarnut's thesis, because the classifications of late antiquity or the early Middle Ages are not to be understood as terms of ethnic origin. Matthias Springer thinks it is striking that Jordanes uses the expression stirpe genitus . Jordanes did not write that Agiulf * e genere * was Varnorum . The word stirpe suggests a ruling family rather than a 'people'.

Remarks

1. ↑ See Jordanes , Getica 44, 234. In: Theodor Mommsen (ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 5.1: Iordanis Romana et Getica. Berlin 1882, pp. 117–118 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ) There it says in Latin: Varnorum stirpe genitus .
2. ↑ See Hydatius , Chronicon 168–170. In: Theodor Mommsen (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 11: Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (II). Berlin 1894, p. 28 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ); see. Jordanes, Getica 44, 229-234. In: MGH Auct. ant. 5.1 pp. 116-118.
3. ↑ Cf. on the events Helmut Castritius , Ludwig Rübekeil , Ralf Scharf :  Sweben (§ 12). In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 30, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018385-4 , pp. 184-212.
4. ↑ See Hydatius, Chronicon 180. In: MGH Auct. ant. 11 p. 29; see. Jordanes, Getica 44, 233. In: MGH Auct. ant. 5.1 p. 117.
5. ↑ See Hydatius, Chronicon 186. In: MGH Auct. ant. 11 p. 30.
6. ↑ See Hydatius, Chronicon 187. In: MGH Auct. ant. 11 p. 30; see. Jordanes, Getica 44, 234. In: MGH Auct. ant. 5.1 pp. 117-118.
7. ↑ Wilhelm Martens: Jordane's history of the Goths with excerpts from his Roman history . In: The historians of the German past. Second complete edition. Sixth century . 3. Edition. tape 1 . Duncker, Leipzig 1913, p. 73-74 ( archive.org ).
8. ↑ See Jörg Jarnut : Agilolfingerstudien: Investigation of the history of a noble family in the 6th and 7th centuries Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7772-8613-3 , pp. 10-11.
9. ↑ Jörg Jarnut : Agilolfingerstudien: Investigation of the history of a noble family in the 6th and 7th century Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7772-8613-3 , p. 37.
10. ↑ See Reinhard Wolters :  Volk (§ 3). In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 32, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018387-0 , pp. 571-575.
11. ↑ See Jordanes, Getica 44, 234. In: MGH Auct. ant. 5.1 pp. 117-118.
12. ↑ Cf. Matthias Springer :  Warning. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 33, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018388-9 , p. 277.

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Relevant editions, although Mommsen's edition is still citable:

• Hydatius : Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum . In: Richard W. Burgess (Ed.): The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana . Clarendon Press, Oxford 1993, ISBN 0-19-814787-2 .
• Jordanes : De origine actibusque Getarum . In: Francesco Giunta , Antonino Grillone (ed.): Iordanis de origine actibusque Getarum (=  Fonti per la Storia d'Italia . No. 117 ). Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, Rome 1991.

literature

• Matthias Springer :  Warn. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 33, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018388-9 , pp. 274-281.
• Otto Seeck : Aiulfus . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, column 1129 f.

Web links

• Hydatius: Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum. In: Theodor Mommsen (Ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 11: Chronica minora saec. IV. V. VI. VII. (II). Berlin 1894 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ).
• The Latin Library: Hydatius, Continuatio Chronicorum Hieronymianorum.
• Jordanes: Romana et Getica. In: Theodor Mommsen (ed.): Auctores antiquissimi 5.1: Iordanis Romana et Getica. Berlin 1882 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version ).
• The Latin Library: Jordanes, De origine actibusque Getarum 44, 229 ff.