Zwentibold

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King Zwentibold, fountain figure by Theo Heiermann , (1982) in Bad Münstereifel

Duke Zwentibold (* 870/871; † 13 August 900 ), also Zwentibald , from the noble family of Carolingians, was King of Lotharingia from May 895 to 900 .

Life

He got his name from his godfather , the Moravian Knjazen Svatopluk I. (Zwentibold is the franked form of Svatopluk).

Zwentibold was the first-born, but illegitimate, son of the Roman-German Emperor Arnolf of Carinthia and initially intended as his successor. However, after Arnolf had been born a legitimate son with Ludwig the child in 893, Arnolf instead pushed through the election of Zwentibold as King of Lotharingia against the resistance of the local nobility. Zwentibold was still rejected by the nobility. After Arnolf's death, the leading nobles of Lotharingia fell away from Zwentibold, called his half-brother Ludwig, who was only seven years old at the time and who had been made King of Eastern Franconia in Forchheim on February 4, 900 , and paid homage to him, thereby preserving the nobility of his own interests.

Between March 27 and June 13, 897 he married Oda (* 875/880; † July 2 after 952), a daughter of Duke Otto the Illustrious from the Liudolfinger family .

In contemporary sources Zwentibold is portrayed as untalented and uninhibited, but he promoted the building of churches and monasteries. As the second and last king of an independent Lorraine, he is venerated there as a local saint.

His feast day is August 13, the day on which he was killed near Susteren in a battle against Counts Gerhard, Matfrid and Stephan from the Matfriden family . His grave is in the local abbey .

After Zwentibold's death, his wife Oda married Gerhard († June 22, 910), who had defeated her husband, in the same year.

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  • Libellus de rebus Trevirensibus, MGH SS 14 Supplementum, p. 104.

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predecessor Office successor
Arnolf of Carinthia King of Lorraine
895–900
Ludwig IV the child