Huoching

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Huoching (* around 675; † 744 ) was a member of the ducal house of the Alemanni . According to the published in the 9th century Vita Hludowici of Thegan Huoching was the son of Alemanni Duke Gotfrid (around 650-709). Huoching's son Hnabi (or Nebi) played a role in founding the St. Gallen Monastery .

reception

In 1976, Hans Jänichen discussed whether the historical Alemanni Huoching and Hnabi could have been the godfather of the Germanic tribes Hoc and Hnæf (which appear in the old English heroic poem Beowulf , in the Finnsburg fragment and the poem Widsith ). Jänichen followed an earlier consideration from 1849, which John Mitchell Kemble made in his History of the Saxons in England .

literature

  • Michael Borgolte : The Counts of Alemannia in Merovingian and Carolingian times. A prosopography . In: archeology and history . Volume 2, Freiburg research on the first millennium in southwest Germany, Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1986, ISBN 3-7995-7351-8 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c Cf. Michael Borgolte : The Counts of Alemannia in Merovingian and Carolingian times. A prosopography . In: archeology and history . Volume 2, Freiburg research on the first millennium in southwest Germany, Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1986, ISBN 3-7995-7351-8 , p. 184
  2. ↑ See John Mitchell Kemble: History of the Saxons in England . New edition 1876; German by Heinrich Bernhard Christian Brandes, Leipzig 1853, p. 419, p. 419
  3. ↑ Hans Jänichen: The Alemannic princes Nebi and Berthold and their relationships with the monasteries of St. Gallen and Reichenau , Blätter für deutsche Landesgeschichte (1976), pp. 30-40 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Huoching
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Huochingus; Huocin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alemannic prince
DATE OF BIRTH at 675
DATE OF DEATH 744