Secundus of Non

Secundus of Trent ( † 612) was a living in the late 7th century 6./frühen abbot and historian.

The living in the 8th century historian of the Lombards, Paul the Deacon mentions Secundus of Trent, which he referred to as " servant of Christ " ( servus Christi ). This had a brief history of the Lombards wrote, which is called Historiola, but we is not obtained. Secundus was as abbot in front of a monastery in the Val di Non and performed 603 baptism of the Lombard princes Adaloald in Monza. Secundus himself died in March 612.

Paul has used the work of Secundus as a source and, probably literally taken over numerous events in his work. The extent of Historiola can hardly say anything with certainty. She handed well until shortly before the death of Secundus. The Theodor Mommsen's view that the work of the Origo Gentis Langobardorum 've contains, so to speak, representing only a section of the work of Secundus, is rejected by modern research. In general, the current research assumes that the Historiola was drafted relatively scarce and in annalistischer form and Paul has used them for the time after Alboin, as the plant probably also acted mainly on the history of the Lombards in Italy and less of their early days.

Most likely, the historian with that Secundus identical, the correspondence with Pope Gregory the Great was commissioned by the Queen Theodelinda. If so, then the theologically and historically erudite Secundus was presumably as an important church policy advisor to the Queen.