Blood court at Cannstatt

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The blood court of Cannstatt was the elimination of the Alemannic duchy by the Carolingian house master Karlmann in 746.

background

After the death of Karl Martell (714–741), the Merovingian caretaker , who had taken over government in the Franconian Empire , a succession plan led to the division between his two sons Pippin and Karlmann. There were uprisings in both sub-empires and in AlamanniaTheutbald , the son of Lantfrid , who was subject to Karl Martell , also tried to regain his freedom of action and to renew the duchy. [...] The dukes of Alemannia and Bavaria rose in 741 only because they knew that the throne was vacant and because they saw themselves as equal in rank to the Carolingians. "

The process

The Alemannic resistance was stubborn and after several campaigns “Karlmann prevailed with violent measures and had part of the Alemannic nobility killed in the criminal court of Cannstatt. Alemannia was then divided into two counties, which were entrusted to the Frankish nobles Warin and Ruthard . With Ruthard, the later famous family of the Welfen settled in Alemannia. "

Lore and Research

According to the records of the Metz Annals , the Annales Petaviani and a report by Childebrand , Karlmann had many thousands of rebel tribal leaders (with followers) arrested and executed for high treason . Almost the entire ruling class of the Alemanni was wiped out and the independence of the Alemanni duchy ended.

The assumption found in older research that a bloodbath had occurred is assessed in more differentiated fashion in more recent research due to a more critical examination of the sources. The executions may have been preceded by a trial. The exact number of those killed remains a matter of dispute.

literature

  • Wolfgang Müller: On the history of the Alemanni . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1975, ISBN 3-534-03457-0 ( Paths of Research 100).
  • Rainer Christlein : The Alemanni. Archeology of a Living People . Theiss, Stuttgart et al. 1978, ISBN 3-8062-0190-0 .
  • Rudolf Rohrbach: The crime of Cannstatt and other additions to the historical picture . Reimer Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-496-00726-5 .
  • Pierre Riché : The Carolingians. One family makes Europe. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1987. ISBN 3-421-06375-3 . Original edition: Les Carolingiens. Une famille qui fit l'Europe. Hachette, Paris 1983. Quotations from the paperback edition, 2nd edition, Munich 1992.
  • Karlheinz Fuchs, Martin Kempa, Rainer Redies: The Alamanni . Exhibition catalog. 4th edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8062-1535-9 .
  • Dieter Geuenich : History of the Alemanni . 2nd revised edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018227-7 ( Kohlhammer-Urban-Taschenbücher 575).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pierre Riché : The Carolingians. One family makes Europe. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2nd edition, Munich 1992, pp. 75 and 77.
  2. ^ Pierre Riché: The Carolingians. Munich 1992, p. 75.