Radulf or Ratolf (died before 880) was the
Duke of Thuringia
Thuringia is a historical and political region of Central Germany.
Kings of Thuringia
*500?–507 Bisinus
*507–529 Baderich
*507–525 Berthachar
*507–532 Herminafried
:''Conquered by the Franks.''
Frankish dukes of Th ...
(or the
Sorbian March
The Sorbian March (, , , ) was a frontier district on the eastern border of East Francia in the 9th through 11th centuries. It was composed of several counties bordering the Sorbs. The Sorbian March seems to have comprised the eastern part of Th ...
) from 874 until his death. Radulf was the successor and possibly son of
Thachulf.
On Thachulf's death in August 873, the
Sorbs
Sorbs (; ; ; ; ; also known as Lusatians, Lusatian Serbs and Wends) are a West Slavs, West Slavic ethnic group predominantly inhabiting the parts of Lusatia located in the German states of Germany, states of Saxony and Brandenburg. Sorbs tradi ...
,
Siusli, and their neighbours revolted. Radulf and
Liutbert, Archbishop of Mainz, crossed the
Saale
The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale ( ) and Thuringian Saale (), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Fränkische Saale, Franconian Saale, a right-bank tributary of the M ...
in January 874 and through a campaign of pillage and fire brought the Slavs into submission without a battle.
Sources
*
The Annals of Fulda'. (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II.)
Reuter, Timothy
Timothy Alan Reuter (25 January 1947 – 14 October 2002), grandson of the former mayor of Berlin Ernst Reuter, was a German-British historian who specialized in the study of medieval Germany, particularly the social, military and ecclesiastical ...
(trans.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.
Dukes of Thuringia
9th-century dukes in Europe
870s deaths
Year of birth unknown
Carolingian dynasty
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