Adalgisel Grimo

Adalgisel Grimo ( † after 634) was a deacon and member of the Austrasian nobility. Historic significance, he is primarily authored by its December 30, 634 Testament, the oldest known early medieval deed between the Meuse and the Rhine, which gives important information about the settlement, constitutional, economic and social history of this region.

Adalgisel Grimo is named with a double name as it appears occasionally in early medieval sources; " Grimo " is the diminutive of a larger, polysyllabic names form. He was educated at the Cathedral of Verdun and trained. He was a deacon under Bishop Paul of Verdun and founded the abbey Tholey. He had a large free float between the Meuse and the Rhine, which he bequeathed in his will, inter alia, the Abbey of St. Maximin in Trier and the Monastery of Longuyon.

There is evidence in his will to his family relationships. Accordingly, his sister was a deacon named Ermengundis. He further mentioned that his aunt, whose name is not mentioned, is buried in the Saint Georges church of Amay. In 1977, the grave of St. Chrodoara plate was found in this church. Chrodoara was married to a Duke called Bodegisel, the members of a nordaquitanischen noble clan. For elderly suspicions about a membership of Adalgisel to this clan could be confirmed, whose members are identified by a name ending in " - gisil ".

The written in Latin Testament of Adalgisel Grimo is present in a transcript from the 10th century and is preserved in the State Archives in Koblenz. The authoritative edition of the text was presented in 1932 by Wilhelm Levison.