Eudo of Aquitaine

Duchy of Aquitaine at the time of Eudos

Eudo of Aquitaine , (also Odo ; French: Eudes) († 735) was referred to in contemporary sources as dux (duke) or princeps (prince) of Aquitaine .

biography

Its origin is not certain; Boggis is given as a possible father . Eudo had two sons, Hunoald and Ato (Hatto), and possibly a daughter named Lampegia.

Eudo was nominally dependent on the Frankish king . His reign is likely to have started around 700 as the successor to Lupus . After their defeat by Karl Martell at Vincy on March 21, 717, Chilperich II and his caretaker Raganfrid turned to Eudo and asked him for an alliance; in return they offered him recognition as rex, i.e. legal independence from the Franconian Empire. However, Karl could not be beaten. After a lost battle near Soissons in 719 , Eudo delivered Chilperich to Karl. Eudo then signed a friendship treaty with Karl and received hereditary rights to the duchy.

Eudo defeated the Moors advancing across the Pyrenees in 721 at the Battle of Toulouse . The Liber Pontificalis , the story of the bishops of Rome, mentions this success and explains it with the gifts - pieces of consecrated sponges - that were sent to the duke and his "Franks". This news shows that the Duke of Aquitaine , like that of Bavaria , already had his own relations with the Curia. An alliance with the Berber prince Uthman ibn Naissa ("Munuza") Munnuz, who had fallen away from the Arabs and married the daughter of Eudos, is said to have served to protect against further Arab attacks . This historically unproven prince is said to have been defeated in 731 by Abd ar-Rahman , the governor of Al-Andalus . Then ar-Rahman marched with his Moorish troops towards Tours and inflicted a heavy defeat on Eudo at Poitiers in 732 . In the end, however, the troops under Karl Martell and Eudo won the battle on the Roman road from Tours to Poitiers near Châtellerault on the Vienne , which stopped the advance of the Muslims in Western Europe.

See also

• History of Spain: Al-Andalus
• False Merovingians

literature

• Eugen Ewig : The Merovingians and the Franconian Empire. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-017044-9 .
• Pierre Riché : The Carolingians. One family makes Europe. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-04559-0 ( dtv 4559).
• Karl Ferdinand Werner : History of France. Volume 1: The origins of France up to the year 1000. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-423-04653-8 ( dtv Wissenschaft 4653).

Web links

• Certificate of Karl Martell's "decisive victory over the Neustrians" at Vinciago "in pago Cameracensi" on March 21, 717, RI I n. 30r, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http://www.regesta-imperii.de/ id / 0717-03-21_1_0_1_1_0_112_30r (accessed on January 15, 2015).
• Document about Karl Martell's military expedition against King Chilperich II., Raganfrid and Eudo of Aquitaine from 719, RI I n.31b, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/0719-00 -00_1_0_1_1_0_118_31b ( Accessed January 15, 2015).
• Certificate of the victory of Karl Martell "over the opponents ... ad Suessionis civ." von 719, RI I n.31c, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http://www.regesta-imperii.de/id/0719-00-00_2_0_1_1_0_119_31c (accessed on January 15, 2015).
• Document about Karl Martell's pursuit of the "Eudo via Paris; Eudo escapes over the Loire and leads Chilperich and his treasures with" from 719, RI I n. 31d, in: Regesta Imperii Online, URI: http: //www.regesta-imperii .de / id / 0719-00-00_3_0_1_1_0_120_31d (accessed on January 15, 2015).

predecessor	Office	successor
Lupus I.	Duke of Aquitaine 700–735	Hunold