Brodulf

Brodulf , also Brunulf , (* around 596 ; † 630 ) was a Frankish nobleman under the rule of the Merovingians .

Life

The origins of Brodulf gave cause for speculation since the High Middle Ages - for example, scholars like Jacques de Guyse assumed, based on the conspicuous accumulation of the lead name Brunulf , that Brodulf came from the family of the Salfränkischen Ardennes counts with Chlodio as ancestor; However, this assumption has been refuted by modern source research and will therefore not be pursued further.

On the other hand, Brodulf's close family ties to the Merovingian dynasty are historically secured - both his sister Sichildis (from Chlothar II. ) And his sister Gomatrud (from Dagobert I ) were the wives of Franconian kings and he was therefore her brother-in-law.

The first mention of Brodulf can be found in the Chronicle of Fredegar for the year 629 ; furthermore he mentions him within the Liber Historiae Francorum the Gesta Dagoberti I , the life story of Dagobert I, which was probably written around 835 in the abbey of Saint-Denis by Abbot Hilduin and Hinkmar of Reims .

Dagobert I had taken over after the death of his father Clotaire rule the Franks and his half-brother Charibert II. , Who as simple ( simplex described), 629 in the usual of Frankish inheritance inheritance passed over. As Fredegar reports, under pressure from a minority of Neustrian nobles around Brodulf, who openly supported his nephew Charibert's claims to the throne, the king was forced to cede the sub-kingdom in Aquitaine to him . He then seems to have held the function of a housekeeper in Aquitaine . In order to prevent the enforcement of Neustrian particular interests against imperial unity in the Frankish Empire for the future, Dagobert finally decided to have his influential brother-in-law eliminated. In 630 Brodulf, who was en route to Aquitaine in Scrooge's entourage during his imperial journey, was at the instigation of the Frankish king during a stay in the Burgundian Saint-Jean-de-Losne jointly by the confidants of the king, the Duces Amalgar and Arnebert as well as the Patricius Willibad , murdered.

Brodulf left a daughter, Theodetrudis or Theodila, who was mentioned in documents in 629 when the property was divided in the Limousin .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Settipani: La Préhistoire des Capétiens (Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'auguste maison de France, vol. 1), éd. Patrick van Kerrebrouck, Villeneuve d'Ascq 1993, ISBN 978-2-95015-093-6 , p. 97.

Source editions

• Bruno Krusch (Ed.): Chronicarum quae dicuntur Fredegarii Scholastici libri IV. Cum Continuationibus. In: Bruno Krusch (ed.): Fredegarii et aliorum chronica. Vitae sanctorum (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores. 2: Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum. Vol. 2, ISSN  0343-7574 ). Hahn, Hanover 1888, ( digitized version )
• Bruno Krusch (Ed.): Gesta Dagoberti I. Regis francorum. In: Bruno Krusch (ed.): Fredegarii et aliorum chronica. Vitae sanctorum (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores. 2: Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum. Appendix Tomus II. Gesta Dagoberti I. regis, ISSN  0343-7574 ). Hahn, Hanover 1888, ( digitized version )

literature

• Eugen Ewig : The Merovingians and the Franconian Empire. 4th supplemented edition, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-017044-9 , pp. 146-149.
• Patrick J. Geary: The Merovingians. Europe before Charlemagne. CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-49426-9 , pp. 158, 186-187.
• Martina Hartmann : Departure into the Middle Ages. The time of the Merovingians. Primus-Verlag, Darmstadt 2003, ISBN 3-896-78484-6 , p. 72f.