Desiderius of Aquitaine

Desiderius († 587 near Carcassonne ) was a Gallo-Roman duke in Aquitaine during the reign of the Franconian Merovingian kings Chilperich I and Guntram I. He served Chilperich as his leading general.

biography

When Sigibert I of Austrasia was assassinated in 575, Chilperich sent Desiderius to conquer Austrasia , but Guntram, King of Burgundy, sent the patrician Mummolus to meet him , and Desiderius was defeated and forced to retreat, giving Childebert II the throne of his Father could take over. In the following year Desiderius, together with Bladast and Berulf, devastated the area around Bourges .

Officially, he and Bladast Chilperich then awarded the Duchy of Aquitaine in 583. In addition, an army was equipped to pull against the Basques. However, they were decisively beaten by them.

After Chilperich's murder in 584, his widow Fredegunde placed herself under the protection of Guntram. Thereupon Desiderius turned to Tholosen to conquer Chilperich's treasure, which his daughter Riguntha , betrothed to Reccared the king of Visigothic Spain, had received as a bride's treasure , but Gundowald ran for the pretender Gundowald when he took the ship from Byzantium to Provence arrived. However, Riguntha's escort teams had already looted the treasure and Gundowald's campaign was unsuccessful.

In the following year Desiderius made peace with Guntram, but he died in 587. His widow Tetradia , daughter of a noblewoman and a farmer, was charged by her first husband Eulalius for separating from him and taking a large part of his property. The stolen property had to be returned and the children she had with Desiderius declared illegitimate.

literature

Archibald R. Lewis: The Dukes in the Regnum Francorum, AD 550-751 , in: Speculum 51,3 (1976) 381-410.

Web links

Medieval Sourcebook: Gregory of Tours (539-594): History of the Franks. Books I-X. on fordham.edu (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Biographie universelle ou Dictionnaire historique . tape 2 : Cha-Ger . Furne et cie, Paris 1841, p. 371 ( books.google.de ).
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ferdinand Lot: Naissance de la France . Librairie Arthème Fayard, Paris 1948, OCLC 750861301 , p. 864 (French, classiques.uqac.ca ).
^ Jean-Mamert Cayla, Perrin-Paviot: Histoire de la ville de Toulouse depuis sa fondation jusqu'a nos jours . Ed .: Administration de l'histoire générale des villes du midi de la France. Bon et Privat, Toulouse 1839, p. 101 (French, books.google.fr ).
↑ Louis-Hector Chaudru de Raynal: Histoire du Berry depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'en 1789 . Vermeil, Vermeil 1845, pp. 173 (French, books.google.fr ).
^ Georg Scheibelreiter: The barbaric society. Darmstadt 1999, p. 289.
^ Jean-Mamert Cayla, Perrin-Paviot: Histoire de la ville de Toulouse depuis sa fondation jasqu'à nos jours . Ed .: Administration de l'histoire générale des villes du midi de la France. Bon et Privat, Toulouse 1839, p. 107 ( books.google.fr ).

personal data
SURNAME	Desiderius of Aquitaine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duke of Aquitaine
DATE OF BIRTH	6th century
DATE OF DEATH	587
Place of death	at Carcassonne

[1] Biographie universelle ou Dictionnaire historique . tape 2 : Cha-Ger . Furne et cie, Paris 1841, p. 371 ( books.google.de ).

[Lot-2] Ferdinand Lot: Naissance de la France . Librairie Arthème Fayard, Paris 1948, OCLC 750861301 , p. 864 (French, classiques.uqac.ca ).

[3] Jean-Mamert Cayla, Perrin-Paviot: Histoire de la ville de Toulouse depuis sa fondation jusqu'a nos jours . Ed .: Administration de l'histoire générale des villes du midi de la France. Bon et Privat, Toulouse 1839, p. 101 (French, books.google.fr ).

[4] Louis-Hector Chaudru de Raynal: Histoire du Berry depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'en 1789 . Vermeil, Vermeil 1845, pp. 173 (French, books.google.fr ).

[5] Georg Scheibelreiter: The barbaric society. Darmstadt 1999, p. 289.

[6] Jean-Mamert Cayla, Perrin-Paviot: Histoire de la ville de Toulouse depuis sa fondation jasqu'à nos jours . Ed .: Administration de l'histoire générale des villes du midi de la France. Bon et Privat, Toulouse 1839, p. 107 ( books.google.fr ).