Fritigil

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Fritigil was a queen of the marcomanni who lived at the end of the 4th century . She is known only through her correspondence with Ambrosius of Milan , mentioned in Paulinus of Milan .

In this correspondence, Bishop Ambrose recommended Fritigil to persuade her husband to make peace with the Romans and to submit himself and his people to the Romans. The successfully concluded treaty is the last known treaty between Rome and the Marcomanni. In their role as federal government , the Romans granted the Marcomanni land for building and defense in the Vienna Basin in Pannonia in 397 . In the same year Fritigil traveled to Milan to visit Ambrosius. However, this was already dead when she got there.

The hilltop settlement of Oberleiser Berg , built by Roman craftsmen around 400, could possibly have been Fritigil's residence.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paulinus of Milan, Vita Ambrosii 36.
  2. ↑ Peter Kehne, Jaroslav Tejral: Marcomanni. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . 2nd edition Volume 19. de Gruyter, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3110171635 , p. 299.
  3. ↑ a b Friedrich Lotter: Displacements of peoples in the Eastern Alps-Central Danube region between antiquity and the Middle Ages: (375-600) . de Gruyter, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3110898667 , pp. 46, 100.
  4. ↑ What was left of the Romans? atlas-burgenland.at.
  5. ↑ a b c A manorial seat of the migration period on the Oberleiserberg, Lower Austria. sciencev1.orf.at.
personal data
SURNAME Fritigil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of the Marcomanni
DATE OF BIRTH 4th century
DATE OF DEATH 5th century