Tassilo I.

Tassilo I († 610) was Duke of the Bavarians in Baiern . He ruled from AD 591 to AD 610.

Life

Duke Tassilo I comes from the Agilolfinger dynasty . Tassilo was the son of the first Bavarian Duke Garibald I known by name and succeeded him in office. He was related to the Lombards through his mother Walderada , a daughter of King Wachos .

In the year 591 Tassilo was installed as rex (king) by the Frankish king Childebert over Baiern (Paulus deacon).

Shortly after his inauguration and in the mid-590s, he waged campaigns against the Slavs , who had migrated westward from their eastern homeland and became neighbors of the Bavarians ( Carantans , Czechs ). Paul Diaconus describes the first campaign with the following sentence: He (Tassilo I) immediately moved to the land of the Slavs with lordship and returned victorious and with great booty back to his own country.

After his victorious campaign against the advancing Slavs in the Alpine region, Tassilo I made another incursion into the land of the Slavs around 595. This campaign ended in defeat, as the Avars came to the aid of the Slavs . Duke Tassilo I lost about 2000 warriors in this campaign.

Tassilo I was able to consolidate his rule in the foothills of the Alps in around 20 years.

The reports on the Slav battles are, however, for a long time the last written sources that report on the Bavarians and the Bavarian duchy.

Tassilos I was succeeded by his son Garibald II.

literature

• Wilhelm Störmer : The Baiuwaren. From the Great Migration to Tassilo III . 2nd Edition. Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-47981-6 .
• Rudolf Reiser : Tassilo I. In: Karl Bosl (Hrsg.): Bosls Bavarian Biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 771 ( digitized version ).
• Rudolf Reiser: Agilolf or The Origin of Bavaria . Ehrenwirth, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-431-01894-7 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Garibald I.	Duke of Baiern 593–610	Garibald II