Stelle …accepit Autari uxorem Theudelenda,...; (Origo Gentis Langobardorum (640 - 680), MGH, Scriptores rer. Lang. et Ital., 1, 1878 (L. Bethmann & G. Waitz), p. 6) [5598]

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Text Origo Gentis Langobardorum (640 - 680) Anonymous - Other
Quotation …accepit Autari uxorem Theudelenda, filia Garipald et Walderade de Baiuaria. Et venit cum Theudelenda frater ipsius nomine Gundoald, et ordinavit eum Autari rex ducem in civitatem Astense.
Translation …Autari took as his wife Theudelenda, a daughter of Garipald and of Walderada from Bavaria. And with Theudelenda came her brother named Gundoald, and king Autari appointed him duke in the city of Asta. (W.D. Foukes, trans., E. Peters, ed., Origo gentis langobardorum (1974), p. 320)
Summary Here the Origo recounts that after the interregnum when the dukes of the Langobards had ruled, Authari was then made king and that he married Theudelenda, daughter of Walderada and Garipald of Bavaria, and when Theudelenda came to the Lombard kingdom she brought her brother, Gundoald, with her, and the king then made him the duke of the city of Asta.
Quotation source MGH, Scriptores rer. Lang. et Ital., 1, 1878 (L. Bethmann & G. Waitz), p. 6
Temporal Coverage 574 - 590
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