Chagnulf

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Chagnulf , also Chainulfus , (* around 598 , † 641 in Augers-en-Brie ) was a Frankish nobleman and under the rule of the Merovingian Comes in the Pagus Meldensis around the main town of Meaux .

Life

The existence of Chagnulf is not only mentioned by name in the Chronicle of Fredegar and the Vita Faronis of Hildegar von Meaux, but also by several Merovingian documents .

Chagnulf was born in the Franconian part of Austrasia , probably on the Villa Pipimisiacum estate , today's Poincy . He was a son of Chagnerich , Comes in the Pagus Meldensis around the capital Meaux and his wife Leudegundis. Chagnulf came from the noble family of the Burgundofarones , which are considered to be an outstanding family of the Austrasian ruling class until the rise of the Pippinids and Arnulfingers and who were related to the clans of the Agilolfinger and Waltriche .

Due to a privilege granted by the Frankish King Dagobert I , Chagnulf can be evidenced as an official in the Pagus Meldensis on October 1, 635 - but it can be assumed that he took over the office of Comes shortly after his father's death in 633. With the Comitat Chagnulf got into a fierce opposition to the Neustrian house Meier Aegas , the Abbey Faremoutiers hard-pressed that of his sister Burgundofara was founded. One of the reasons the attacks of Aegas on ownership and monks of the abbey is in their narrow religious connection to the Luxeuil Abbey to seek - the Vita Sancti Columbani of Jonas of Bobbio names Aegas expressly as one of the main opponents of the Burgundian monastic community. The main reason for the feud between the aristocratic parties, however, is likely to be found in the fact that Chagnulf's father Chagnerich was transferred in the Brie by King Chlothar II . Aegas tried to revise this takeover of Neustrian property by the Austrasian clan of the Burgundofarones through his repeated attacks on the family abbey of Faremoutiers.

Since the attacks by the Neustrian housekeeper on the abbey did not subside in the course of the following years, Chagnulf used a meeting of the Neustrian nobility in Augers-en-Brie in 641 to file a lawsuit against Aegas. In the course of this court hearing called Mallus , Chagnulf and Aega's son-in-law Ermenfred clashed so much that the Comes was slain by his adversary with the sword as a result of the bloody conflict.

The murder of Chagnulf during the Mallus then led to a serious argument between Ermenfred and the Burgundofarones. Since his father-in-law Aegas died in the same year, Ermenfred no longer had any noteworthy support among the neustrian greats. This circumstance and the open support of the relatives of Chagnulf by Nantechild , the widow of King Dagobert I, finally led to the fact that the murderer of Chagnulf had to flee to the nearby Austrasian Reims in order to avoid the blood revenge by the Burgundofarones.

siblings

Chagnulf had four brothers and sisters:

  • Chagnoald (before 627 - before 633/34 Bishop of Laon )
  • Burgundofaro (trainee lawyer Dagoberts I. After 633 - around 672 Bishop of Meaux and there founder of the monastery of St-Faron)
  • Burgundofara (founder of Faremoutiers Abbey, † after 633/34)
  • Agnetrade († after 633/34)

Source editions

literature

  • Yaniv Fox: Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul: Columbanian Monasticism and the Formation of the Frankish Aristocracy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-58764-9 , pp. 68-69, 206, 213, 217.
  • Jo Ann McNamara, John E. Halborg, E. Gordon Whatley (Eds.): Sainted Women of the Dark Ages Duke University Press, Durham 1992, ISBN 978-0-822-31216-1 , pp. 157, 159.
  • Margarete Weidemann: Noble families in the Chlotharreich. Relationships of the Frankish aristocracy in the first third of the 7th century in: Beihefte der Francia, Volume 15, Paris 1987, pp. 844, 849.
  • Horst Ebeling: Prosopography of the officials of the Merovingian empire from Chlotar II (613) to Karl Martell (741) (= supplements of Francia. Volume 2). Fink, Munich 1974, pp. 97-98.
  • Horst Ebling: Burgundofarones in: Lexicon of the Middle Ages , Volume II, Column 1098/99.
  • Eugen Ewig: The Merovingians and the Franconian Empire . Verlag W. Kohlhammer Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne, 1993, p. 124.
  • Martin Heinzelmann: L'aristocratie et les évêchés entre Loire et Rhin, jusqu'à la fin du VIIe siècle , in: Revue d'histoire de l'Église de France, tome 62, n ° 168, 1976. La christianisation des pays entre Loire et Rhin (IVe-VIIe siècle) p. 88.
  • Alexander O'Hara: Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus - Sanctity and Community in the Seventh Century . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-085801-8 .
  • Frans Theuws, Mayke B. de Jong, Carine Van Rhijn: Topographies of Power in the Early Middle Ages , in: Transformation of the Roman World Volume 6. Brill, Leiden 2001, ISBN 978-9-004-11734-1 , pp. 253.
  • Erich Zöllner: The origin of the Agilulfinger. In: Communications from the Institute for Austrian Historical Research, 1951 p. 3
  • John Michael Wallace-Hadrill: The Long-Haired Kings: And Other Studies in Frankish History . Routledge, London 2019, ISBN 978-0-429-58887-7 , p. 142.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Ebeling: Prosopography of the officials of the Merovingian Empire from Chlotar II. (613) to Karl Martell (741) (= supplements of Francia. Volume 2). Fink, Munich 1974, pp. 38-40.
  2. ^ Yaniv Fox: Power and Religion in Merovingian Gaul: Columbanian Monasticism and the Formation of the Frankish Aristocracy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014, ISBN 978-1-107-58764-9 , pp. 250-255.
  3. ↑ Georg Waitz: The old law of the Salian Franks: a supplement to the German constitutional history. Schwers'sche Buchhandlung, Kiel 1846, pp. 143–154.
personal data
SURNAME Chagnulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chainulfus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Frankish nobleman and comes
DATE OF BIRTH at 598
DATE OF DEATH 641
Place of death Augers-en-Brie