Tassilo I of Bavaria

Tassilo I. († 610) was duke of the Bavarians in Bavaria. He reigned in the years 591-610 AD

Life

Duke Tassilo I. comes from the dynasty of Agilolfinger. Tassilo was the son of the first names are known Bavarian Duke Garibald I. and followed this in office. About his mother Walderada, a daughter of King Wachos, he was related to the Lombards.

In the year 591 Tassilo was used by the Frankish king Childebert about Bavaria as rex (king) ( Paul the Deacon ).

He introduced shortly after his inauguration as well as the mid- 590er years campaigns against the Slavs who migrated westward in those years from their eastern homeland and become neighbors of the Bavarians were ( Carantanians, Czechs ). Paul the Deacon describes the first campaign with the following sentence: He ( Tassilo I. ) soon attracted with Herre power into the land of the Slavs and returned victorious and with great booty back to his own country.

After his victorious campaign against the advancing Slavs in the Alps Tassilo I made ​​again by 595 to invade the land of the Slavs. This campaign ended in defeat, as the Slavs, the Avars to help. Duke Tassilo I lost about 2000 warriors in this campaign.

The reports of the Slavs fighting, however, are for a long time, the last written sources, the report on the Bavarians and the Bavarian duchy.

Tassilo I. successor was his son Garibald II

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