Gunzo

This article deals with the Alemannic Duke Gunzo. For other people named Gunzo see Gundekar and for the Japanese literary magazine see Gunzō .

Gunzo (* in the 6th century) was an Alemannic duke in the early 7th century, based in villa Iburinga , today's Überlingen on Lake Constance .

Live and act

His exact life and reign dates are not passed down. Gunzo was the father of Fridiburga , who lived with the Frankish King Sigibert III. got engaged.

Duke Gunzo invited the clergy and bishops of the area to a synod in Constance in 635 and presided over the election of the deacon John as Bishop of Constance as the successor to the deceased Bishop Gaudentius .

It remains questionable whether Gunzo is identical with Duke Gundoin , the founder of the Moutier-Grandval Monastery , who was attested at the same time , or with his predecessor, Duke Uncilin of the Alemanni . It is possible that Gunzo only ruled the eastern half of the Alamannia.

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• Vita of Saint Gall
• Fredegar

literature

• Otto Feger : Duke Gunzo and the introduction of Christianity to the Alemanni. In: Montfort. Vol. 12, No. 1/2, 1960, ISSN  0027-0148 , pp. 144-148 .
• Dieter Geuenich : History of the Alemanni (= Kohlhammer Urban pocket books. 575). 2nd, revised edition. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-17-018227-7 .