Agilolfing Nobility in Early Bavaria

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Bavaria and Lombardy
Surname/tag: Agilolfing

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The Agilolfings were a noble family who ruled the Duchy of Bavaria in the time of the Merovingians.

Contents 1 Early Legends 2 Recorded Rulers 3 Links to individual persons 3.1 Agilolfings on WikiTree 4 Projects on Internet 5 Sources 5.1 Thank you to James LaLone 5.2 Thanks to Helmut Jungschaffer

Early Legends

Concerning the Agilolfing Dukes of Bavaria, Charles Cawley writes, "There is considerable uncertainty about the early dukes of Bavaria, not only their relationship to each other but even their names and order of succession. The mid-13th century Series Ducum Bavariæ lists, in order, the dukes from 514 as Theodo "dux primus", Theodo II, "Garibaldus rex", Tassilo [I] dux, Theodo III "quem sanctus Ruodbertus baptizavit", Theodebertus, Theodo IV "qui cum filiis sanctum Corbiniacum locavit Frisinge", Theodaldus dux, Grimoaldus dux "fratris filius", Hugpertus dux, Udilo dux "cum Theodone frater", Thassilo dux II "cum filio eius Theodone". This listing is not consistent with earlier sources. ^[1]

Recorded Rulers

Wikipedia has lists of recorded Agilolfing rulers in both Bavaria and Lombardy. ^[2]

Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Database records early Agilolfing rulers in Bavaria ^[1]

Links to individual persons

• Queen Hildegard, Charlemagne's wife.

• Tassilo

• Huoching

Agilolfings on WikiTree

The following profiles on WikiTree are arranged by estimated birth year and contain added commentary as available.

Supposedly Reigned Before 514 and Possibly Legendary

• Hunno Velphio Not listed by Cawley ^[1] Said to be father of Aldager Agilofinges. He and unknown wife marked Uncertain Existence 3/15/2019.

• Aldager Agilofinges 23 Nov 0415 Agilolfingien, Germany - 7 May 0508. Said to be son of Hunno Velphio. Not listed by Cawley ^[1] He and unknown wife marked Uncertain Existence 3/15/2019.

• Agilulf (Agilofing) Agilofinges of Bavaria abt 0470 Swabia, Present Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - abt 0512 Not listed by Cawley ^[1]

• Théodebald (Agilofing) Agilofinges 0500 Bayern, Germany. Not listed by Cawley ^[1]

• Agivald (Agilofing) Agilofinges abt 0503 Bayern, Germany - abt 0537. Not listed by Cawley ^[1]

Known to have Reigned

• Garibald (Agilofing) von Bayern abt 0530 Bayern (Lower Bavaria), Germany - abt 0593. Listed by Cawley ^[1]

• Agivald (Agilofinges) de Agilofing 0545 Bayern, Traunstein, Bayern, Germany - 0627

• Gertrude (Agilofing) Agilofinges 0555 Landen, Liege, Belgium - 17 Mar 0645

• Gundoald (Agilofing) di Asti aft 0555 Bavaria - 0612. Listed by Cawley ^[1]

• Uncilien (Agilofing) Agilofinges abt 0568 Alamannia, Frankish Empire - aft 0607

• Theodelinda (Agilofing) di Lombardia abt 0570 Asti, Piedmont, Italy - 0628. Listed by Cawley ^[1]

• Theodon (Agilofing) von Bayern 0630 Schwaben, Chemnitzer Land, Sachsen, Germany - 11 Dec 0718

• Unknown (van Beiernen) Agilolfings 0640

• Guntrut (Agilofing) di Lombardia abt 0695

• Theodebert (Agilofing) von Bayern - 0724 Listed by Cawley ^[1]

• Theodo (Bavaria) Agilolfings - aft 0739

• Swanahild (Agilolfing) von Bayern Bayern - 0742 Listed by Cawley ^[1]

• Odilo Agilofing abt 0718 Bavaria - abt 18 Jan 0748 Listed by Cawley ^[1]

Projects on Internet

• Geni has an Agilolfing Dynasty Project.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12} Charles Cawley. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Medieval Lands: A Prosopography of Medieval European Noble and Royal Families, Bavaria Dukes Accessed 3/15/2019 jhd
2. ↑ Wikipedia: Agilolfings Accessed 3/12/2019 jhd

See also:

• Christian Settipani The Ancestors of Charlemagne (Addenda)

• Bill. Medieval and Ancient Lines

Thank you to James LaLone

I do not have these books nor do I read German but here is a list of books on the subject plus some discussion (in English) on them. Maybe this will give someone a start:

[1] K A Eckhardt *Merowingerblut II: Agilolfinger und Etichonen* (Witzenhausen, 1965) pp.105, 153 [2] E Zoellner 'Das Geschlecht der Agilolfinger' in *Mitteilungen Oberoestereichischen Landesarchivs* (Linz, 1978) vol.2 pp.83-110

[3] M Werner *Adelsfamilien im Umkreis der fruehen Karolinger: Die Verwandschaft Irminas von Oehren und Adelas von Pfalzel* (Sigmaringen, 1982)

4] E Hlawitswchka 'Die Vorfahren Karls des Grossen' in *Karl der Grosse, Lebenswerk und Nachleben I* (1965) ed. W Braunfels

[5] J Jarnut 'Beitraege zu den fraenkisch-bayerisch-langobardischen Beziehungen im 7. und 8. Jahrhundert (656-783)' in *Zeitschrift fuer bayerische Landesgeschichte* 39 (1976), pp.331-352.

[6] B Behr *Das alemannische Herzogtum bis 750* (Frankfurt, 1975) pp.184ff]

[7] K A Eckhardt *Merowingerblut I: Die Karolinger und ihre Frauen* (Witzenhausen, 1965)

[8] "ES": D Schwennicke (ed) *Europaeische Stammtafeln: Stammtafen zur Geschichte der Europaeishen Staaten - Neue Folge* Band XII (Marburg, 1992)

[9] M Borgolte *Die Grafen Alemanniens in merowingischer und karolingischer Zeit: Eine Prosopographie* (Sigmaringen, 1986)

[10] K F Werner 'Important noble families in the kingdom of Charlemagne - a prosopographical study of the relationship between king and nobility in the early middle ages' in T Reuter (ed) *The Medieval Nobility* (Amsterdam/New York/Oxford, 1978, 137-202. Translated from the German by T Reuter.

https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/gen-medieval.rootsweb.com/thread/16260103/

Thanks to Helmut Jungschaffer

Additional literature online but not free:

Reinhard Wenskus: Agilulfinger, (Abb. 11 Stammtafel der A. Nach Karl August Eckhardt 1965). In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2. Auflage. Band 1, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 1973, ISBN 3-11-004489-7, pp. 96–98. (Germanische Altertumskunde Online bei de Gruyter) Roman Deutinger: Wer waren die Agilolfinger? In: Steffen Patzold, Karl Ubl (Hrsg.): Verwandtschaft, Name und soziale Ordnung (300-1000). (= Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde – Ergänzungsbände, Band 90). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2014, pp. 177–194 (Germanische Altertumskunde Online bei de Gruyter). Ders.: Agilolfinger. In: Heinrich Beck, Sebastian Brather, Dieter Geuenich, Wilhelm Heizmann, Steffen Patzold, Heiko Steuer (Hrsg.): Germanische Altertumskunde Online. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2015