Hunimund (Danube-Sueben)

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Hunimund Filius Hermanarici (* around 395 in Pannonia; † after 469 in Suavia ) was a Danube-Suebian prince of the Quads and son of King Ermenrich (Hermanaricus) of the Suebi (Quads) († 441).

Hunimund founded a short-lived Sueben kingdom around 454 in the old settlement area of ​​the Marcomanni and Quadi, which he won against Attila's son Ellac in Pannonia in 454 with the support of the German coalition around Ardarich in the Battle of Nedao . There he ruled as king until 469, at the same time as his ally Edekon , who also founded a short-lived ski empire . In 469 he suffered in alliance with the Skiren a defeat in the battle of bolia in Theißebene against the kings Valamir (Widemer) and Thiudimir (Theodemer) of the Ostrogoths who claimed the conquered territory of Skiren and Quaden for themselves.

Escape to Suavia

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Hunimund fled to “Suavia”, which means the original home area of ​​the Quaden princes near Quedlinburg an der Bode in the Harz Mountains. This area is referred to as Gau Suavia in various medieval maps and shows the relevant archaeological finds, especially on the Moosberg. Suavia is viewed as part of the Thuringians or Saxons, depending on the representation. In the meantime it was also ruled by the Longobards, making the Quedlinburg princely family now the Longobard nobility. The family later became part of the Saxon nobility and became part of the Saxon-Franconian nobility.

Agilolfinger

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Hunimund is also said to be the father of Agilulf († 457), who was briefly appointed by the Visigoths as ruler of the Galician Suebi and was the leader of a Suebi revolt against the foreign rule of the Visigoths. This warnische Agilulf is by Jorg Jarnut as the progenitor of the Agilolfinger viewed Agilulf was probably the ancestor of Agilolfinger the father of the Duke Theodo I the Swabians / Quaden (* around 455, † to / from 530) 490-530 to Neustamm who formed the Bavarians. However, this Agilulf is said to have been born around 420 and only died around 482. That Agilulf threatened Passau and could have been an Arian.

Due to the unusually long dates of life (at the time), there may have been two Hunimunds. The same conjecture applies to Hermanarici.

Remarks

1. ↑ See Jörg Jarnut : Agilolfingerstudien: Investigation of the history of a noble family in the 6th and 7th centuries Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7772-8613-3 , p. 10 f .

literature

• Helmut Reimitz:  Hunimund. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 15, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016649-6 , pp. 245–246. (on-line)

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literature

• Helmut Reimitz:  Hunimund. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 15, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016649-6 , pp. 245–246. (on-line)
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• Hans J. Hummer: The fluidity of barbarian identity: the ethnogenesis of Alemanni and Suebi, AD 200-500 . In: Early Medieval Europe 7. 1998, pp. 1-29.
• Hans J. Hummer: Franks and Alemanni: A Discontinuous Ethnogenesis . In: Ian Wood (eds.): Franks and Alemanni in the Merovingian Period: An Ethnographic Perspective . 1998, pp. 9-32.
• Hagen Keller : Alamanni and Suebi based on written sources from the 3rd to 7th centuries . In: Frühmittelalterliche Studien Volume 23, 1989, pp. 89–111.
• Friedrich Lotter : On the role of the Danube River in the migration period . In: Communications of the Institute for Austrian Historical Research (MIÖGF) Volume 76. 1968, pp. 275–299.
• Arnold Hugh Martin Jones , John R. Martindale, John Morris: Hunimundus 1 . In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire . Volume 2: AD 395-527. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, pp. 573-574. ( books.google.de ).
• Walter Pohl : The Gepids and the Gentes on the central Danube after the collapse of the Attila Empire . In: Herwig Wolfram , Falko Daim (ed.): The peoples on the middle and lower Danube in the fifth and sixth centuries . Munich 1980, pp. 239-305.
• Walter Pohl : Die Germanen (= Encyclopedia of German History. Volume 57). Munich 2000, ISBN 3-486-55705-X .
• Herwig Wolfram : The Goths and their history. (= Beck's knowledge series .). 3rd edition, Munich 2010.