Bladast or Bladastes was a
Frankish
Frankish may refer to:
* Franks, a Germanic tribe and their culture
** Frankish language or its modern descendants, Franconian languages
* Francia, a post-Roman state in France and Germany
* East Francia, the successor state to Francia in Germany ...
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dux
''Dux'' (; plural: ''ducēs'') is Latin for "leader" (from the noun ''dux, ducis'', "leader, general") and later for duke and its variant forms (doge, duce, etc.). During the Roman Republic and for the first centuries of the Roman Empire, '' ...
'' during the reigns of
Chilperic I and
Chlothar II
Chlothar II, sometime called "the Young" (French: le Jeune), (May/June 584 – 18 October 629), was king of Neustria and king of the Franks, and the son of Chilperic I and his third wife, Fredegund. He started his reign as an infant under the ...
.
In 583 or 581,
Chilperic I gave the province of
Aquitaine
Aquitaine ( , , ; oc, Aquitània ; eu, Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Aguiéne''), archaic Guyenne or Guienne ( oc, Guiana), is a historical region of southwestern France and a former administrative region of the country. Since 1 Janu ...
to Bladast and
Desiderius
Desiderius, also known as Daufer or Dauferius (born – died ), was king of the Lombards in northern Italy, ruling from 756 to 774. The Frankish king of renown, Charlemagne, married Desiderius's daughter and subsequently conquered his realm. Des ...
and sent them into
Vasconia
The Duchy of Gascony or Duchy of Vasconia ( eu, Baskoniako dukerria; oc, ducat de Gasconha; french: duché de Gascogne, duché de Vasconie) was a duchy located in present-day southwestern France and northeastern Spain, an area encompassing the m ...
with the Aquitainian army. They were defeated.
[Gregory, I.vi.12, says ''Bladastes veri dux in Vasconiam abiit maximamque partem exercitus sui amisit''.]
Notes
Sources
*
Gregory of Tours''Historia Francorum''.translated Earnest Brehaut, 1916.
*Lewis, Archibald R.
The Dukes in the Regnum Francorum, A.D. 550-751. ''Speculum'', Vol. 51, No 3 (July 1976), pp 381–410.
*Collins, Roger. "The Basques in Aquitaine and Navarre: Problems of Frontier Government." ''War and Society in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honour of J. O. Prestwich''. edd. J. Gillingham and J. C. Holt. Cambridge: Boydell Press, 1984. Reprinted in ''Law, Culture and Regionalism in Early Medieval Spain''. Variorum, 1992. .
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