Leudesius (assassinated 676) was the son of
Erchinoald,
Mayor of the Palace of
Neustria
Neustria was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks.
Neustria included the land between the Loire and the Silva Carbonaria, approximately the north of present-day France, with Paris, Orléans, Tours, Soissons as its main cities. It la ...
, and his wife Leutsinde.
Leudesius inherited his father's properties on his death in 658. In 659, there was a dispute between the
Archdiocese of Rouen and
Abbey of Saint-Denis
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over his property.
When, in 673, the
Burgundians under
Leodegar
Leodegar of Poitiers ( la, Leodegarius; french: Léger; 615 – October 2, 679 AD) was a martyred Burgundian Bishop of Autun. He was the son of Saint Sigrada and the brother of Saint Warinus.
Leodegar was an opponent of Ebroin, the Frankish Mayo ...
defeated the mayor
Ebroin and king
Theuderic III
Theuderic III (or Theuderich, Theoderic, or Theodoric; french: Thierry) (c. 651–691) was the king of Neustria (including Burgundy) on two occasions (673 and 675–691) and king of Austrasia from 679 to his death in 691. Thus, he was the king of ...
, they exiled Ebroin to a monastery. The
Austrasia
Austrasia was a territory which formed the north-eastern section of the Merovingian Kingdom of the Franks during the 6th to 8th centuries. It was centred on the Meuse, Middle Rhine and the Moselle rivers, and was the original territory of th ...
n mayor
Wulfoald took over the power in Neustria, but fled back to Austrasia on the assassination of
Childeric II in 675. The Neustrians turned to Leudesius to replace him. The next year, Ebroin returned. Leudesius and Theuderic III fled with the royal treasure to
Baizieux
Baizieux () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.
Geography
Situated northeast of Amiens
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,
[''Liber Historiæ Francorum'', p 139, calls the place ''Bacivo villa''.] where Ebroin overtook them and had Leudesius murdered.
Notes
Sources
Primary sources
*''Liber historiae Francorum'', edited by B. Krusch, in ''
Mon. Germ. hist. script. rer. Merov.'' vol. ii.
*''Vita sancti Leodegarii'', by
Ursinus, then a monk of St Maixent (
Migne, ''Patrilogia Latina'', vol. xcvi.)
*''Vita metrica'' in ''Poetae Latini aevi Carolini'', vol. iii. (''Mon. Germ. Hist.'')
*''Diplomata Regum Francorum''. ''
Mon. Germ. hist.'' DD Mer (1872), no. 37, p. 34.
*''Chronicon Ebersheimense'' 4, ''
Mon. Germ. hist.'' SS XXIII, pp. 433–4.
*''Cronica Hohenburgensis'' 664, ''Annales Marbacenses'', ''
Mon. Germ. hist.'' SS in Usum Scholarum
p. 3.
*
Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., translator.
The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations'. Greenwood Press: Connecticut, 1960.
Secondary sources
*
Pitra, J. B. ''Histoire de Saint Léger''.
Paris
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, 1846.
*Friedrich, J. "Zur Geschichte des Hausmeiers Ebroin." ''Proceedings of the Academy of Munich''. 1887, pp 42–61.
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676 deaths
Mayors of the Palace
Assassinated nobility
Year of birth unknown
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