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Tassilon DE BAVIERE-DE LOMBARDIE I Agilolfinger dynasty
- Preferred Name: Tassilon DE BAVIERE-DE LOMBARDIE I Agilolfinger dynasty[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Gender: M
- FSID: L8RB-R2Q
- MilitaryService: 2,000 Bavarians were slain when invading the lands of the Slavs whose resistance was helped by the Kaghan (chief) of the Avars.595
- Clan Name: with note: Description: House of Agilofing
- Birth: um 0560 in Stammesherzogtum Baiern at LATI: N7.9622 LONG: E1.9122
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Duke of BavariaBET 591 AND 609
- MilitaryService: moved into the lands of the Slavs (probably the recently conquered eastern Tyrol and Carinthia), and returned victorious with much plunderABT 592
- Relationship+to+Garibald: with note: Description: Assumed to be the son or a close relation to Garibald although not treated as such by FMG
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Duc de Bavière590
- Death: 610 in Salzberg, Herzogtum Baiern at LATI: N7.5649 LONG: E3.6312 with note:
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: According to Paul the Deacon, 8th century historian of the Lombards, he was appointed Bavarian "rex" by Childebert II, Frankish king of Austrasia, ending the war with the Franks.591 with note: But there is no other source and he was called later as DUC
citation moved to sources with full text
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Duke Tassilo I comes from the Agilolfinger dynasty. Tassilo was a relative of the first known Bavarian duke Garibald I and succeeded him as duke.
In the year 591, Tassilo I was appointed as a rex by the Frankish king Childebert II. Tassilo was thus given a comparatively strong position, equal to the Merovingian kings in Neustria, Austrasia and Burgundy
=== THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 ===
THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.8;
=== SOURCE: Ancestral File. ===
SOURCE: Ancestral File.
=== Hg. v. Bayern um 591 ===
Hg. v. Bayern um 591
=== Name Prefix: Duke Name Suffix:
Name Prefix: Duke Name Suffix: Of Bavaria
=== Acceded: 592, Died: Cir 598 ===
Acceded: 592, Died: Cir 598
=== Tassilo I (or Tassilon) (560 – 610) was ===
Tassilo I (or Tassilon) (560 – 610) was King of Bavaria from 591 to his death. According to Paul the Deacon, he was appointed as Bavarian rex by Childebert II, Frankish king of Austrasia, according to Paul the Deacon in 591, ending the war with the Franks. The war began during the reign of Tassilo's predecessor, Garibald I, when Garibald concluded a marriage alliance with the Langobards. We do not know whether Garibald died or was deposed. Nor do we know Tassilo's exact relationship to Garibald, though we can assume Tassilo was a close relation if not his son. The fact that Childebert named Tassilo king shows frankish control over the Bavarian state.
Paul the Deacon also tells us that Tassilo soon moved into the lands of the Slavs (probably the recently conquered eastern Tyrol and Carinthia), and returned victorious with much plunder. This victory proved to be short-lived as Paul tells us of 2000 Bavarians, who were slain to a man in 595 when invading the lands of the Slavs to help the Kakan (chief of the Avars).
Tassilo died in 610 and was succeeded by his son Garibald II.
=== [Greene.FTW] [INDIV2.DAT] Duke of Bavar ===
[Greene.FTW] [INDIV2.DAT] Duke of Bavaria (591-610) Source: Charlemagne's Ancestors; Ahnentafel for Edward III of England
=== Tassilo VON BAVARIA Given Name: Tassilo ===
Tassilo VON BAVARIA Given Name: Tassilo Surname: Von BAVARIA Sex: M Birth: ABT. 560 in BAVARIA? Death: BEF. 630 in ?? Father: (Duke) Garibaldi Agilofinges OF LOWER BAVARIA b: ABT. 540 in ?? Mother: (Princess) Waldrada (Walderade) OF THE LOMBARDS b: ABT. 520 in LOMBARDY? Marriage 1 ?? ?? Children (Duke) Garibaldi II VON BAVARIA b: ABT. 585 in BAVARIA?
=== #Générale# Duc de Bavière de 591 à 610 ===
#Générale# Duc de Bavière de 591 à 610
=== research notes ===
This may not have been the father of Theodo IV, Duke of Bavaria.
From Wikipedia - Tassilo I of Bavaria :
Tassilo I (or Tassilon) (560 - 610 ) was King of Bavaria from 591 to his death. According to Paul the Deacon , he was appointed as Bavarian rex by Childebert II , Frankish king of Austrasia , according to Paul the Deacon in 591, ending the war with the Franks. The war began during the reign of Tassilo's predecessor, Garibald I , when Garibald concluded a marriage alliance with the Langobards . We do not know whether Garibald died or was deposed. Nor do we know Tassilo's exact relationship to Garibald, though we can assume Tassilo was a close relation if not his son. The fact that Childebert named Tassilo king shows frankish control over the Bavarian state.
Paul the Deacon also tells us that Tassilo soon moved into the lands of the Slavs (probably the recently conquered eastern Tyrol and Carinthia ), and returned victorious with much plunder. This victory proved to be short-lived as Paul tells us of 2000 Bavarians, who were slain to a man in 595 when invading the lands of the Slavs to help the Kakan (chief of the Avars ).
Tassilo died in 610 and was succeeded by his son Garibald II .
=== Duke of Bavaria ===
Duke of Bavaria
=== Note: Duke of Bavaria ===
Note: Duke of Bavaria
=== Father: Garibald I DE BAVARIA b: 525 in ===
Father: Garibald I DE BAVARIA b: 525 in Bavaria Mother: Waldrada DE LOMBARD
=== Profession : Duc de Bavière de 591 à 610 ===
Profession : Duc de Bavière de 591 à 610
=== !FTM Vol 5, tree #1330. ===
!FTM Vol 5, tree #1330.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Garibald I. Herzog der Bajuwaren in Baiern, b. ABT 525 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Kelheim, Niederbayern, Bavaria, Germany d. 590 in Schwaben, Kelheim, Kelheim, Niederbayern, Bavaria, Germany
Mother: Waldrada Herzogin von Baiern, b. 535 in Lething, Lombardia, Italy d. 26 JUN 572 in Vexin, Normandy, France
Family 1: Gertrude DE BAVIERE, b. 560 in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany d. 627
- Garibaldi de Bayern II MEROVINGIEN, b. 585 in Stammesherzogtum Baiern d. 625 in Stammesherzogtum Baiern
Sources:
- Title: Lt-Col. W. H. Turton: "The Plantagenet Ancestry" Genealogic Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, 1993 (Orig 1928)
Author: Genealogic Publishing Company, Inc. Baltimore, 1993 (Orig 1928)
Note: relationships, dates
- Title: The History Files
Publication: Name: https://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsEurope/GermanyBavarians.htm;
Note: Bavaria (Bavarii)
Indo-Europeans - Germanic Tribes (Intro)
Anatolian Tribes Balkans Tribes Baltic Tribes Celtic Tribes Germanic Tribes Italic Tribes Indo-Aryan Tribes Indo-Iranian Tribes Slavic Tribes Tocharians (Intro)
The Germanic tribes seem to have originated in a homeland in southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, with the Jutland area of northern Denmark, along with a very narrow strip of Baltic coastline). They had been settled here for over two thousand years following the Indo-European migrations. The Germanic ethnic group began as a division of the western edge of late proto-Indo-European dialects around 3300 BC, splitting away from a general westwards migration to head towards the southern coastline of the Baltic Sea. By the time the Germanic tribes were becoming key players in the politics of Western Europe in the last two centuries BC, the previously dominant Celts were on the verge of being conquered and dominated by Rome. They had already been pushed out of northern and Central Europe by a mass of Germanic tribes which were steadily carving out a new homeland.
When the Romano-German general and emperor, Odoacer, destroyed the Rugii in AD 487, a new confederation of Germans formed in their place, perhaps partly from the Rugian survivors themselves, but perhaps also from migrants filling the vacuum that had been created. The confederation was the Bavarians (Latinised as Bavarii or Baiovarii). The territory in which they finally settled became the land of Bavaria, located in what is now south-east Germany.
More recent theories postulate that the Celtic Boii tribe formed part of this new confederation. It is due to ethnic mixing between Germans and Celts that the German Bavarii name is actually Celtic in origin. The best explanation for the first element, 'Baio', is that it is a miswritten or mispronounced form of 'Boio', which itself may actually have contained an 'h', as 'Bohio'. The second element, 'vari' ('warioz' in conjectural proto-Celtic), is a Celtic word borrowed into Germanic languages. It means 'men', and is only used as 'dwellers' by forced extension of its meaning. So the Baiovarii name would translate as 'men of the Boii'. This would imply that an event in history occurred where a German military elite took over a part of the Boii tribe, retaining the name, itself not that rare an occurrence. This implication seems to be borne out by the Marcomanni takeover of the Boii in the first century BC. This makes the Bavarii not only the descendants (in part) of the Boii, but also of the Marcomanni.
Initially a powerful duchy in the Holy Roman empire, Bavaria became a moderately powerful kingdom under the reforms of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in 1805, and played its part in Central European politics until the conclusion of the First World War saw the kingdom abolished and a federal Germany formed, of which it was a constituent part. Today Bavaria is a strongly Catholic region of Germany, seen perhaps as a little old fashioned in the eyes of northern Germans, and sometimes having more in common with its south-eastern neighbour, Austria.
(Additional information by Edward Dawson.)
c.500
The Germanic tribe of the Rugians seem to be the same people as the Rugii of the first century who had settled on the southern shore of the Baltic. They had later migrated into Austria where they founded a kingdom which was soon subjugated by the Huns. Throwing in their lot with the Ostrogoths after being defeated in 487 by the Romano-German general and emperor, Odoacer, they migrate into Italy about 493 and soon became indivisible from the Ostrogoths. The Bavarii confederation forms in their place.
Bavarian Confederation
The Bavarian confederation formed in the territory that would later become Bohemia, immediately following the exodus of the Langobards towards Italy. The confederation was unusual in that it did not migrate from elsewhere but was made up from local elements, which included possible Celtic Boii descendants and Roman settlers, along with elements of the Germanic Alemanni, Buri, Heruli, Marcomanni, Ostrogoths (following the fall of their own kingdom), Quadi, Rugii, Scirii, and Thuringians. Within a few decades the Bavarii also migrated (or expanded) southwards to occupy a larger territory which later formed Bavaria and parts of Austria. There, they were subjugated by the Franks around 555, but may not have remained fully under Frankish domination, if at all. It was not until the Carolingian conquest of 788 that independence was definitely lost.
The ancient Celtic name for Bohemia was the Boiohæmum, which emerged after the Slavic incursions as Bojoheim, Baiheim, or Beheim. The Bavarian name was derived from Baioarii, Bajuvarii, and Bajjawarjos, literally meaning the 'inhabitants of the Boiic land'.
- Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BAVARIA.htm#_Toc489003160;
Note: TASSILO, son of --- (-609). TASSILO I Duke of Bavaria 591. Paulus Diaconus records that "Tassilo" was ordained as "Baioarium rex" by "Childeberto rege Francorum"[44]. This passage is included in the text after the accession of Agilulf King of the Lombards, which is dated to [590], but before the report of the death of Evin Duke of Trentino. The Annales Ducum Bavariæ record that "Tassilo dux" reigned in Bavaria in 593[45]. m ---. The name of Duke Tassilo's wife is not known. Duke Tassilo I & his wife had one child:
a) GARIBALD (-640). Paulus Diaconus names "Tassilone duce Baiorariorum, filius eius Garibaldus" when recording that he was defeated by the Slavs "in Agunto" after his father died[46]. GARIBALD II Duke of Bavaria 609.
Page: Ancestry
- Title: History - Lex Baioariorum
Author: Lex Baioariorum. The right of Bavaria, ed. u. trans. by Roman Deutinger (Editio Bavarica 3), Regensburg 2017. Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum, in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores rerum Langobardicarum, ed. by Ludwig Bethmann / Georg Waitz, Hanover 1878, 12-187. Fredegar, Chronicon, ed. by Bruno Krusch (Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum 2), Hanover 1888, 1-193. Annales Petaviani, in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica SS 1, ed. by Georg H. Pertz, Hannover 1826, 3-19.
Publication: Name: https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Agilolfinger#Herz.C3.B6ge_oder_K.C3.B6nige.3F;
Note: Agilolfinger
Page from the Ingolstadt manuscript of Lex Baioariorum from approx. 800-825 with the stipulation that the duke must always come from the Agilolfinger family. Here line 8/9: "de genere Agiloluingarum". (Munich University Library, Cim. 7, fol.63r)
by Roman Deutinger
The Bavarian dukes until the fall of Duke Tassilos III. 788 are known as Agilolfinger. The basis for this is the provision of the Lex Baioariorum that the dukes must always belong to this sex. However, there are no confirming sources. Also, due to the gaps in the tradition, by no means all the early dukes are known. The question of the origin of the Agilolfinger can hardly be answered, since the social elite in the early Middle Ages was networked and related across national borders. The fact that the Agilolfingers belonged to these highest circles is made clear by their "family name". In the early Middle Ages, names of this kind, probably derived from a top ancestor, mostly only belonged to royal families. With such, especially the Lombards and Franconian empires, the Agilolfingers entered into various marriage associations and provided Lombard kings themselves. Individual early sources, which assign the Bavarian dukes themselves the title of king, cannot be verified in terms of their real content, but founded a historical picture that was still based on 1806 Elector Max IV Joseph (r. 1799-1825, from 1806 as King of Bavaria ) when he was proclaimed king.
Family table of the Agilolfinger. (Graphic: Roman Deutinger)
Historians have been calling the Bavarian dukes of the early Middle Ages Agilolfinger since the 17th century. The basis for this is a provision of the Lex Baioariorum(III, 1) with the following content, formulated from the point of view of the Frankish king: "But the duke, who is at the head of the people, was always from the family of the Agilolfinger and must be because our predecessor kings assured them that they appoint one of their lineage, who was faithful and wise to the king, to be a duke in order to rule this people ”. However, this statement should not be taken at face value: The Lex Baioariorum was, as its handwritten tradition shows, known and widespread in Bavaria up to the 13th century, and during this time there were numerous dukes who clearly did not belong to the Agilolfinger family . Legal entitlement and reality obviously diverged here, and this possibility must also be expected in the early Middle Ages. For the Bavarian dukes of the 6th to 8th centuries there is not a single source besides the Lex that would confirm that they belong to a family called "Agilolfinger". In addition, the genealogical connection between them can only be reconstructed with great gaps and uncertainties. That the dukes all came from the same dynasty and that this with theDeposition of Tassilos III. (Reg. 748-788) or came to an end with the forced entry of his children into the monastery, is therefore a plausible assumption based on the regulation of the Lex, which, however, ultimately cannot be secured. The delimitation of the family from the outside world and the individual self-image remain unknown, i.e. the question of whether all people who are usually referred to as Agilolfingers have considered themselves as such. One would therefore do well to understand the name "Agilolfinger" merely as a practical auxiliary term with which one can terminologically summarize the Bavarian dukes.
origin
The noble Agilolfinger (Ch) rodoald comes into conflict with King Dagobert. (Chronicle of the so-called Fredegar for the year 624; Heidelberg University Library, Cod. Pal. Lat. 864, 121r )
The name is derived, as one may assume, from an actual or even supposed top-class man named Agilolf (or similar). There have already been made various proposals to identify this person, about the Suebenkönig Agilulf (d. 457) or by Lombard Agilulf (r. 591-615 / 16), but all these attempts remain highly uncertain. In any case, the name does not appear among the representatives of the family known to us. In view of the fluctuating conditions during the migration period, the ethnic allocation of gender cannot be clearly defined, especially since marriages across national borders were common practice in the higher aristocratic circles. The first known Bavarian Duke Garibald I.(died around 590) belonged to the retinue of the Frankish king ("unus ex suis": Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum I, 21), and it is expressly said of his daughter Theudelinde (died 627) that she came "from a Frankish family "(" ex genere Francorum ": Fredegar, Chron. IV, 34)). Outside Bavaria, the nobles Chrodoald (d. 624) and Fara (d. 640) , who are active in the Franconian Rhineland, are named "from the noble Agilolfinger family" ("de gente nobile Ayglolfingam": Fredegar, Chron. IV, 52), and in the year 756 Abbot Wicpert diesof St. Martin in Tours, of whom it is said that he was a bishop from Bavaria and "by descent an Agilolfinger" ("genere Heilolvingus": Ann. Petaviani, 18). How these men, known as Agilolfingers, are related to the simultaneously known Bavarian dukes remains uncertain, because "where we have news about the early Bavarian dukes there is no Agilolfinger, and where we have news about Agilolfinger there is no Bavarian duke" (Carl I . Hammer).
High rank
Wedding of the Bavarian princess Theodelinde with the Lombard king Authari 589. Fresco by the painters Gregorio Zavattari (mentioned 1444-1481) and Ambrogio Zavattari (died 1512), around 1444, in the Theodelinden chapel of the Monza Cathedral. (© Museo e Tesoro del Duomo di Monza / Photo: Piero Pozzi)
The mere fact that they are named with a common "family name" (which is very rare in the early Middle Ages) is a sign of the outstanding position of the Agilolfinger. The Bavarian dukes who are counted among them have belonged to the highest nobility in Europe from their first known appearance in the 6th century, as can be seen particularly in their marriage connections with other princely families. The Bavarian Duke Garibald I married the Longobard princess and former Frankish queen Waldrada, their daughter Theudelinde should initially have been married to the Frankish king Childebert II (r. 575-596), but then married the Lombard kings Authari (r. 584 -590) andAgilulf (590-615). The Lombard king Liutprand (712-744) took the Bavarian duke's daughter Guntrud (born 690) as his wife, Duke Tassilo III. the Lombard princess Liutpirg . The dukes Theobald (d. Around 720) and Grimoald (d. 728) married the noble West Franconian noblewoman Pilitrud , Duke Odilo (r. 736 / 37-748) the daughter of the Franconian housekeeper Karl Martell named Hiltrud(died 754). All of this shows that the Agilolfingers have been viewed as equals by these high-ranking families over the generations; At the same time, it shows her intense involvement in European politics from the 6th to the 8th centuries.
Dukes or kings?
Proclamation on the elevation of Elector Maximilian IV. Joseph (ruled 1799-1825) to King of Bavaria, from the Royal Bavarian Government Gazette from 1806. (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, BHS VIII D 4-1806)
In Bavaria, the Agilolfingers never got above the rank of duke, even if they were able to fill their office in phases with quasi-royal independence. The Lombard chronicler Paulus Diaconus (d. 799) dubbed Garibald I and Tassilo I (d. Around 610) as "rex" (king), but elsewhere the same Tassilo as "dux" (duke), and the subordination of the two officials under the Frankish kings is evident both with him and in the contemporary Frankish sources. That Tassilo III. Is said to have risen from ducal to royal dignity is only a late medieval legend. The appointment of Elector Maximilian IV Joseph(reigned 1799-1825, from 1806 as Bavarian King) in his proclamation as King of the "Nation entrusted to us by Providence" on January 1, 1806 to "the title of King of Bavaria" which was ancestral to the former ruler of the same, was based on this historical image . After all, a grandson of Duke Garibald I. called was Aripert (d. 661) 653 raised to the Lombard king and founded a dynasty that long to 712 four generations Lombard prevailed. However, it remains uncertain whether this branch of the family still considered itself to be Agilolfinger. Politically, the last king from this dynasty, Aripert II (r. 701-712) belonged in any case to the opponents of the Bavarian dukes.
"Wrong" Agilolfinger
Since the 12th century, imaginative source interpretation and generous combinations have been used to "invent" further alleged Agilolfingers, so that in some cases up to eight different dukes named Theodo were counted, while in reality there was probably no more than one, at best two. These fictions could be identified and eliminated from the scientific source criticism of the 19th century. However, our knowledge of family relationships remains extremely vague and incomplete. There are various assumptions in the literature where alleged Agilolfinger can be found not only in Bavaria, but also in Alemannia, on the Moselle, on the Middle Rhine, in Thuringia and in Saxony. There may well have been family ties to the Bavarian dukes.
Page: Ancestry
- Title: Wikipedia - Tassilo of Bavaria
Author: Störmer, Wilhelm. "Die Baiuwaren: Von der Völkerwanderung bis Tassilo III." pp 64 – 66, Verlag C. H. Beck, 2002, ISBN 3-406-47981-2. Paul the Deacon, History of the Lombards: Book 4, Chapter VII
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tassilo_I_of_Bavaria;
Note: Tassilo I (or Tassilon) (560 – 610) was Duke of Bavaria from 591 to his death. According to Paul the Deacon, he was appointed as Bavarian rex by Childebert II, Frankish king of Austrasia, in 591, ending the war with the Franks. The war began during the reign of Tassilo's predecessor, Garibald I, when Garibald concluded a marriage alliance with the Lombards. We do not know whether Garibald died or was deposed. Nor do we know Tassilo's exact relationship to Garibald, though we can assume Tassilo was a close relation if not his son. The fact that Childebert named Tassilo duke shows Frankish control over the Bavarian state.
Paul the Deacon also tells us that Tassilo soon moved into the lands of the Slavs (probably the recently conquered eastern Tyrol and Carinthia), and returned victorious with much plunder. This victory proved to be short-lived as Paul tells us of 2,000 Bavarians, who were slain to the last man in 595. They had invaded the lands of the Slavs, who received help from the Kaghan (chief) of the Avars.
Tassilo died in 610 and was succeeded by his son Garibald II.
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