Gundeperga
Gundeperga (also Gundiperga, Gundeberga, Gunperga ; * 591 , † after 653 ) was the wife of King Arioalds, Queen of the Longobards . She was the daughter of the Longobard king Agilulf and his wife Theudelinde .
Life
First marriage
Like her mother, Gundeperga was a Catholic and married to the Arian dux ( Duke ) Arioald of Turin . Her brother Adaloald was deposed in 626 and Arioald was made king. Arioald was tolerant on religious issues. Arioald accused his wife Gundeperga of adultery and murder conspiracy against him and imprisoned her for three years in Laumellum ( Lomello ), but then released her on the intervention of the Merovingian Chlothar II .
Second marriage
After Arioald's death, Gundeperga married Rothari , Duke of Brescia . Allegedly she had him called over to her and asked him to repudiate his then wife in order to marry Rothari himself. It is more likely, however, that Rothari took the widow of the previous king as his wife in order to legitimize his rule.
Gundeperga was also held by Rothari for a total of five years. This may have happened because of her Catholic faith, as Rothari was herself an Arian . Only after the intervention of Aubedo, an envoy of the Frankish king Clovis II , did she regain her freedom in 641.
Third marriage
After Rothari's death, Gundeperga married Rodoald , his successor to the throne , her stepson in 652 . She was accused of infidelity one more time. Rodoald refuted the accusation through camfio (judgment of God through duel) and restored Gundeperga's honor. Gundeperga had the church of San Giovanni Domnarum in Ticinum (Pavia) , where she was buried after her death, built and splendidly decorated. The sources did not record her further life.
The third marriage of Gundeperga is doubted by most historians and considered to be a mistake.
swell
- Paulus Diaconus , Historia Langobardorum , ed. Ludwig Bethmann and Georg Waitz , in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum saec. VI – IX , Hahn, Hanover 1878
- Fredegar : Chronik IV, 49-70, Monumenta Germaniae Historica : MGH SS rer Merov II, p. 145ff
literature
- Martina Hartmann : The queen in the early Middle Ages . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-018473-2 , p. 47ff ( online )
- Jörg Jarnut : History of the Longobards . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1982, ISBN 3-17-007515-2 , ( Kohlhammer-Urban-Taschenbücher 339).
- Wilfried Menghin : The Lombards. Archeology and history . Theiss-Verlag, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8062-0364-4 .
Web links
- Paulus Diaconus: History of the Langobards (English)
- Fredegar: Chronicle IV, chap. 49-70
- Ludo Moritz Hartmann : History of Italy in the Middle Ages, Vol. II Part 1, Wigand, Leipzig 1900, p. 207ff, (partially outdated)
- Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders Vol VI , Oxford 1895, p. 160ff (partially outdated)
- Italy, Emperors & Kings (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martina Hartmann, The Queen in the Early Middle Ages , p. 215
- ↑ Martina Hartmann, The Queen in the Early Middle Ages, p. 47
- ↑ a b Fredegar, IV, 49-51, MGH SS rer Merov II, p. 145
- ^ Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum IV, 41
- ↑ Hartmann, History of Italy in the Middle Ages, Vol. II Part 1, p. 209
- ↑ Hartmann, History of Italy in the Middle Ages, Vol. II Part 1, p. 239f
- ↑ Fredegar Chronicle, chap. 71
- ↑ Historia Langobardorum IV, 47
- ↑ see Martina Hartmann, The Queen in the Early Middle Ages, p. 188; Ludo Moritz Hartmann, History of Italy in the Middle Ages, Vol. II Part 1, p. 274; Thomas Hodgkin, Italy and her Invaders Vol VI, p. 241
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gundeperga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gundiperga; Gundeberga; Gunperga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Queen of the Lombards |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 591 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 653 |