Lethinger
The Lethingers were a Lombard noble family or royal family. This family is traced back to the legendary third king of the Lombards, Letho or Lethuc , mentioned by Paulus Deaconus . They were able to consolidate their position through the marriage relationships of the Lethingen to non-Lombard royal families.
Wacho († around 540), the eighth king of the Lombards from the Lethinger family , is clearly attested . His daughters were Wisigard († 537), married to the Merovingian Frankish king Theudebert I , and Walderada († after 570), the latter had a row with the Franks Kings Theudebald and Clotaire I. married. After the divorce from Chlothar, a great uncle of Theudebald, she married the Agilolph Bavarian Duke Garibald I. Both women were considered to be special "salvation carriers". The son of Walthari († 546) of the Wacho was the last ruler of the Longobards from the Lethinger dynasty.
He was succeeded as King of the Lombards by Audoin from the Gausen family .
One of the grandchildren of Wachos is Theudelinde († around 627), who became another Lething queen of the Lombards through her marriages with Authari and Agilulf . Her daughter Gundeperga († around 653) was also able to rise to Queen of the Lombards through her marriages with Arioald and subsequently with Rothari and (controversial) with her stepson Rodoald . These marriages were able to consolidate their legitimacy base.
literature
- Joachim Jahn : Ducatus Baiuvariorum: The Bavarian Duchy of the Agilolfinger , p. 11f. (= Monographs on the history of the Middle Ages). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7772-9108-0 .
- Jörg Jarnut: History of the Longobards. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3170075152 .
- Paulus Deacon : History of the Longobards: Historia Langobardorum . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2009, ISBN 9783534222582 .
- Karin Priester : History of the Longobards: Society - Culture - Everyday Life. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 380621848X .
Web links
- Paulus Diaconus , Historia Langobardorum , ed. Ludwig Konrad Bethmann and Georg Waitz , in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum et Italicarum saec. VI – IX , Hahn, Hanover 1878
- Medieval Genealogy, accessed July 15, 2019
- Longobards
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paulus Deacon : Historia Langobardorum . (Ed. And translated by Wolfgang F. Schwarz: History of the Longobards.) Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft , Darmstadt 2009. ISBN 978-3-534-22258-2 . 1st book, 21.