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Godefried OF ALEMANIA ( -709)
Name: | Godefried OF ALEMANIA 1 |
Sex: | Male |
Father: | - |
Mother: | - |
Individual Events and Attributes
Occupation | frm 0687 to 0709 | Duke of Alemania |
Death | 0709 |
Marriage
Spouse | (unknown) | |
Children | Houching OF ALEMANIA (675?-744) |
Individual Note
Gotfrid, Gotefrid, or Gottfried (Latin: Gotfridus or Cotefredus; died 709) was the Duke of Alemannia in the late seventh century and until his death. He was of the house of the Agilolfing, which was the dominant ruling family in Bavaria.
In a document dated to the year 700 in Cannstatt, Gotfrid at the request of a priest named Magulfus donated the castle of Biberburg to the monastery of Saint Gall.
Gotfrid fought a war over his de facto independence with the mayor of the palace Pepin of Heristal. The war was unfinished when Gotfrid died in 709. His sons, Lantfrid and Theudebald, had the support of Pepin and succeeded him.
Gotfrid married a daughter of Theodo of Bavaria and his third son, Odilo, later ruled in Bavaria. From his son Huoching (Huocin, Houchi, or Hug) came the later stock of the Ahalolfings. His daughter Regarde married Hildeprand of Spoleto, and he left a youngest son named Liutfrid.
SOURCES:
Geuenich, Dieter. Geschichte der Alemannen. Verlag Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, 2004. ISBN 3170182277
Gotfrid at Mittelalter-Geneaolgie2
Sources
1 | Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 172, 182-1. |
2 | "Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotfrid. |