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Gibuld (Latin Gibuldus ) was an Alemannic king around 470 . It could be identical to the Gebavult (Latin Gebavultus ) mentioned at the same time .

Eugippius reports in his Vita Sancti Severini XIX that King Gibuld's men, in the second half of the 5th century, constantly haunted the city of Passau . Thereupon there was an encounter between Gibuld and the abbot Severin in front of Passau , in which Severin asked that the Roman prisoners of war be released. The meeting with Severin must have impressed Gibuld, since he gave the servant of God the choice to ask what he wanted . He then released about 70 prisoners. According to Eugippius, this is said to have happened in the years 469/470.

According to the Vita of St. Lupus, Bishop Lupus of Troyes is said to have succeeded , almost at the same time, in freeing King Gebavult's prisoners; this may be the same event. So whether there were two kings from the same clan with similar names or the same person is unclear.

It is not known whether Gibuld ruled over all the Alemanni or was only king of a small sub-tribe. If Gibuld and Gebavult were the same person, the vast extent of the area in which Gibuld / Gebavult ruled suggested that the Alemanni, who had previously split into small kingdoms, had come to a union around 450 AD.

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• Eugippius : Vita Sancti Severini = The life of St. Severin . Reclam, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-15-008285-4 , chap. 19 (Latin / German)
• Vita of St. Lupus

literature

• Dieter Geuenich : History of the Alemanni (= Kohlhammer Urban pocket books. 575). 2nd, revised edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018227-7 .
• Dieter Geuenich:  Gibuld. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 12, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1998, ISBN 3-11-016227-X , pp. 69-71. ( online ).