Theodo II

Theodo II (* before 665 ; † October 15 around 717 ) was Duke of the Bavarians in Bavaria from around 680 to 717 .

Sometimes he is also called Theodo V to the legendary dukes Theodon I to III. - all before the year 570 - to be included. With Theodo II, on the other hand, the time of the dukes of Bavaria begins, whose rule is almost always well documented.

Life

Duke Theodo II on a fresco in the parish church of St. Vitus in Kirchweidach

Duke Theodo II comes from the house of the Agilolfingers , as prescribed by Bavarian tribal law, the Lex Baiuvariorum . His parents are unknown. He is considered a grandson of Garibald II. Theodo ruled Bavaria and the entire settlement area of ​​the Bavarians around the year 700 like an independent prince. He was married to Folchaid . Duke Theodo II intervened in the Lombard throne dispute. He allied himself again with the Lombards and granted asylum to King Claimant around the year 702 . Like an independent prince, Theodo II was able to divide his duchy among his sons without the consent of the Merovingian Franconian kings.

Theodo undertook a trip with a Bavarian embassy over the Alps to Rome in 715, where he worked with Pope Gregory II to establish a diocese organization and the establishment of a Bavarian church province. In the same year (715) he also married his daughter Guntrud to Liutprand, the son of Ansprand. Throughout his life he could not come to terms with the strengthening of the Franconian housekeepers ( Pippin the Middle ). So he planned together with Pope Gregory II the establishment of an independent Bavarian church province. The division into the four dioceses of Regensburg, Freising, Passau and Salzburg was probably already carried out at that time. Under Boniface and Duke Odilo , the four dioceses were canonized in 739.

His son Theudebert was co-regent from around the beginning of the 8th century . Theodo divided the tribal duchy of Baiern between his sons Theudebert, Theudebald , Tassilo and Grimoald .

The complete succession of Bavarian rulers begins with Duke Theodo II.

literature

• Benno Hubensteiner : The Bavarian History . Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-475-53756-1 .
• 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 .
• Albert Lehner: Sacerdos = bishop. Clerical hierarchy in the Emmeramsvita , Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2007.
• Wilhelm Störmer: Theodo . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 8, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-89659-908-9 , Sp. 626.
• Sigmund Ritter von Riezler :  Theodo, Duke of Baiern . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, p. 713 f.
• Regina Holzinger:  Theodo. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 9, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-058-1 , Sp. 858-859.
• Erika Bosl: Theodo, Duke of Bavaria. In: Karl Bosl (ed.): Bosls Bavarian biography. Pustet, Regensburg 1983, ISBN 3-7917-0792-2 , p. 774 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Theodo II.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: MedLands. Bavaria, Dukes: Ch. 1 Dukes of Bavaria. Agilolfing Family

predecessor	Office	successor
Lantpert	Duke of Baiern 680–717	Theudebert and his three brothers Theudebald , Tassilo II and Grimoald II.