- Cadolah of Friuli
Cadolah or Cadalaus (also "Chadalhoh" or "Chadolah"; died 819) was the
Duke of Friuli from 817 to his death. He was a son of Count Berthold (Pera [h] told) and anAhalolfinger .He was a patron of the monastery of
Saint Gall . With his brother Uuago, he donated property in the village ofWanga to the monastery by charter dated23 October 805 . He also donated property in17 November 817 , at which time he bore the title "count" ("comis") and directed his son, Berthold, to make donations in his name after his death.By then he had been put in charge of
Dalmatia , where he was the local ruler at the time when an embassy fromConstantinople passed through on their way to the court ofLouis the Pious (816). Sometimes after that, probably in 817, he was created Duke of Friuli.Einhard calls him "Cadolaum comitem et marcæ Foroiuliensis præfectum" ("Cadolah, count and prefect of the Friulian march") in 818. Einhard later calls him "dux Foroiuliensis" when recording his death after returning from a campaign againstLjudevit Posavski in 819. According to the "Vita Hludowici imperatoris", "Cadolach dux Foroiuliensis" was replaced by Baldric.ources
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Thegan of Trier . " [http://www.intratext.com/X/LAT0459.HTM Vita Hludowici Imperatoris] ".
*Einhard . " [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/einhard.html Life of Charlemagne] ".
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