Odilo (Bavaria)

Duke Odilo (* before 700; † January 18, 748 ) was Duke of the Bavarians in Baiern from 736 until his death .

Life

Odilo, a son of Gotfrid , came from the Bavarian ducal dynasty of the Agilolfinger on his mother's side . The Duke, however, who presides over the people, has always been on the Agilolfinger line and must be ... , determined the Bavarian tribal law, the Lex Baiuvariorum .

In 736 Duke Odilus took office as Hugbert's successor . Odilo realized the Bavarian diocesan division in 739. The dioceses of Regensburg , Freising , Passau and Salzburg were founded under canon law and their boundaries were determined; the duke remained head of the church.

In 742 Odilo married Hiltrud, a daughter of the Frankish housekeeper Karl Martell , with whose sons Karlmann and Pippin the Younger there was a conflict in the following year (743). Odilo was defeated in the battle of Epfach am Lech, fled and then had to confirm the Franconian sovereignty over Baiern with the peace treaty of 744. Odilo kept his duchy. Later that year Karlmann carried out a punitive expedition against the East Saxons, which had gone into battle with Odilo.

Duke Odilo died in 748. After his death, Grifo tried to free Baiern from the sovereignty of the Franconian Empire. Together with Count Swidger, he kidnapped the widow Odilus and his son, who later became Tassilo III.

Pippin had to move again against the Bavarian tribal duchy in 749 . After his victory, Odilos was the son of Tassilo III. , born 741, appointed his father's successor under the tutelage of his mother Hiltrud.

Odilo is considered to be the founder of the Benediktbeuern monasteries in 739, Niederaltaich (with Pirmin ) in 741 and Mondsee in 748 in what is now Upper Austria and a number of other monasteries, including the cell at Chammünster .

Duke Odilo was buried in the Gengenbach monastery in the Ortenau district, which was founded by Pirmin in 727.

Lex Baiuvariorum

Duke Odilo also had the Lex Baiuvariorum written down, the oldest collection of laws in the Bavarian tribal duchy. The text is in Latin.

literature

Benno Hubensteiner : The Bavarian History . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3475537561 .
Wilhelm Störmer : The Baiuwaren. From the Great Migration to Tassilo III . 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-47981-6 .
Peter Landau : The Lex Baiuvariorum. Date, place and character of Bavaria's oldest legal and historical source. Publishing house of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7696-1627-8 .
Sigmund Ritter von Riezler : Oatilo . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, p. 83 f.
Jörg Jarnut : Odilo. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 419 ( digitized version ).
Wilhelm Blum: ODILO (Oatilo). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 6, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-044-1 , Sp. 1110-1112. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Individual evidence

^ Joachim Jahn : Ducatus Baiuvariorum: The Bavarian Duchy of the Agilolfinger , p. 216/217. (= Monographs on the history of the Middle Ages). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991. ISBN 3-7772-9108-0 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugbert	Duke of Baiern 736-748	Tassilo III.

personal data
SURNAME	Odilo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Oatilo; Uatilo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ruler of the tribal duchy of Baiern
DATE OF BIRTH	before 700
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 748

[1] Joachim Jahn : Ducatus Baiuvariorum: The Bavarian Duchy of the Agilolfinger , p. 216/217. (= Monographs on the history of the Middle Ages). Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1991. ISBN 3-7772-9108-0 .