Wisigarde

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Wisigarde (also Wisigardis ) was a Frankish queen in the 6th century .

Life

Only a few data from Gregory of Tours have come down to us from the life of Wisigarde . She was born as the daughter of King Wacho at the Langobardenhof on the central Danube . As a grown woman, after an unusually long engagement period of seven years, she married the Australian King Theudebert I and came to the Merovingian royal court in Cologne . The engagement was for political reasons by Theodoric I. been arranged around 531, but came because of a liaison between Theudebert and Romanin called Deoteria only 537/538 about. Wisigarde died only a short time after the wedding.

Burial place in Cologne Cathedral

A richly decorated women's grave from the first half of the 6th century under the Cologne Cathedral is associated with Wisigarde , which was discovered on April 10, 1959 during archaeological investigations in the course of the construction of a new crypt . The head of the cathedral excavation at that time, Otto Doppelfeld , interpreted the grave as the burial place of the Wisigarde due to its furnishings and dating. However, this interpretation is neither documented nor documented by sources.

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  • Gregory of Tours, Historiarum III, 20, 27

literature

  • Ulrich Back: About the differences in the burial equipment of the Merovingian queens. in: Kölner Domblatt 78, Cologne 2013. pp. 261–269.
  • Carl Dietmar, Marcus Trier : COLONIA - City of Franconia: Cologne from the 5th to the 10th century. DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne 2011. P. 90ff.
  • Otto Doppelfeld: The Franconian women's grave under the choir of Cologne Cathedral. Germania 38. Frankfurt 1960. pp. 89-113.
  • Otto Doppelfeld: The two Franconian graves under Cologne Cathedral. In: Otto Doppelfeld, Renate Pirling : Franconian princes in the Rhineland. The graves from Cologne Cathedral, from Krefeld-Gellep and Morken. Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1966. pp. 30-49.
  • Werner Eck , Hansgerd Hellenkemper , Heribert Müller :  Cologne. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 17, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2000, ISBN 3-11-016907-X , pp. 88-102.
  • Eugen Ewig : Studies on the Merovingian Dynasty. In: Frühmedalterliche Studien 8, 1974, pp. 39-41.
  • Eugen Ewig: The Merovingians and the Franconian Empire. Stuttgart 2001. ISBN 978-3-17-017044-5 , p. 34.
  • Egon Wamers, Patrick Périn: Queens of the Merovingians. Noble graves from the churches of Cologne, Saint-Denis, Chelles and Frankfurt am Main. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2689-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregory of Tours, Historiae III, 20, III, 27.
  2. ↑ Dietmar / Trier 2011. p. 100.
personal data
SURNAME Wisigarde
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wisigardis; Wisigard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Longobard princess
DATE OF BIRTH at 510
DATE OF DEATH at 540
Place of death Cologne