- Garibald I of Bavaria
Garibald I (also "Garivald") (born 540) was Duke (or King) of Bavaria from 555 until 591. [
Paul the Deacon (1907), [http://www.northvegr.org/lore/langobard/ "History of the Langobards (Historia Langobardorum)",] William Dudley Foulke, trans. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania), [http://www.northvegr.org/lore/langobard/014.php III, x,] calls him "king of the Bavarians". The mid-thirteenth-century "Series Ducum Bavariæ " calls him "Garibaldus rex", see [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BAVARIA.htm#_Toc145648120 FMG] .] He stands at the head of theBavarian Dynasty .After the death of the
Merovingian kingTheudebald , Theudebald's successorClotaire I married his widowWaldrada (531 – 572), daughter of the Lombard kingWacho . Clotaire's bishops objected, so he gave Waldrada to Garibald to marry in 556. Not only did this grant Garibald prestige, but it created lasting political ties between theBavarii and the Lombards ofPannonia andBohemia . This would have consequences after the Lombards moved intoItaly in 568.Some time before 585, the Merovigian court attempted to bind Garibald more closely to their interests by arranging a marriage between Garibald's daughter
Theodelinda and kingChildebert II . At the same time the Merovigians were attempting to normalise relations withAuthari , the Lombard king, by arranging a marriage between Childebert's sister and Authari. Both these proposals fell through. The offended Authari was engaged to Theodelinda in 588. Fearing an anti-Frankish axis, the Franks sent an army into Bavaria. Garibald's childrenGundoald and Theodelinda fled to Italy. Authari married Theodelinda in May 589 and named his brother-in-law, Gundoald, Duke ofAsti . In 590, the Franks invadedLombardy with help fromByzantium , but were defeated.In 591, Childebert normalised relations with the Lombards and Bavarii. After Authari died in 590, the Lombard dukes asked Theodelinda to marry again. She chose
Agilulf as her husband, and he was accepted as the next king. They then negotiated a peace with Childebert which lasted for decades. A according toPaulus Diaconus , peace with Bavaria was restored when Childebert named Tassilo "rex" (king). It is unknown whether Garibald was deposed or died. Nor is it clear what Tassilo's relationship to Garibald was; though if not his son, he was certainly a close relation.ources
* [http://gw.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=frebault&lang=fr;p=garibald;n=de+baviere GeneaNet.]
*Gregory of Tours , [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gregory-hist.html "History of the Franks: Books I-X"] , Book IV, Chapter 9
*Störmer, Wilhelm. "Die Baiuwaren: Von der Völkerwanderung bis Tassilo III." pp 59 – 64. Verlag C. H. Beck, 2002, ISBN 3-406-47981-2.Notes
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