Suavegotta

Suavegotta (name variants Suavegotha , Suavegotho ; * after 495; † after 549) was probably the name of a wife of the Frankish King Theuderich I.

According to the testimony of the bishop and historian Gregor von Tours (died presumably in 594), Theuderich I married the daughter of the Burgundian king Sigismund , but without giving her name. This wife of Theuderich is often identified with Queen Suavegotta, mentioned by the West Franconian chronicler Flodoard von Reims , who wrote in the 10th century and who bequeathed a third of the “ville Virisiaci” to the church of Reims during the tenure of Bishop Mapinius (around 549 to 573) . According to Flodoard, Suavegotta had a daughter named Theudechild . The equation of Suavegotta with the wife of Theuderich I is not completely certain.

Eugen Ewig put forward the thesis that Suavegotta was Theuderich's first wife. He then took Sigismund's daughter as his second wife, whose name would therefore remain unknown.

literature

• Martina Hartmann : The queen in the early Middle Ages . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-018473-2 , p. 66.
• Matthias Springer :  Theuderich I. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 30, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018385-4 , pp. 459-463 (here: 461).

Remarks

1. ^ Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands - Merovingians , Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
2. ^ Gregory of Tours, Historiarum libri decem 3, 5.
3. ↑ Flodoard von Reim, Historia Remensis ecclesiae 2, 1.
4. ^ Matthias Springer :  Theuderich I. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 30, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005, ISBN 3-11-018385-4 , pp. 459-463 (here: 461).
5. ↑ Eugen Ewig, The naming of the oldest Franconian kings and the Merovingian royal family , in: Francia 18, 1 (1991), p. 50f.