Theodo of Bavaria

Theodosius II ( * before 665; † 15 October at 717) was around the years 680-717 Duke of the Bavarians in Bavaria.

Sometimes it is also called Theodosius V. to the more legendary Dukes Theodon I. to III. - All before the year 570 - the calculation.

Life

Duke Theodosius II comes from the house of Agilolfinger as prescribed the Bavarian tribal law, the Lex Baiuvariorum. His parents are not known. He ruled Bavaria and the entire settlement area of ​​the Bavarians around the year 700 as an independent prince. He married Folchaid. Duke Theodosius II intervened in the Lombard throne dispute. He allied himself again with the Lombards and granted about the year 702 King Ansprand asylum. As an independent prince could Theodosius II divided his duchy among his sons, without the consent of the Merovingian Frankish kings.

Theodosius undertook in the year 715 to travel with a Bavarian Legation over the Alps to Rome, where he held a bishopric organization and the establishment of a Bavarian church province developed in collaboration with Pope Gregory II. In the same year ( 715) he married his daughter Guntrud with Liutprand, the son of Ansprand. He could not reconcile his life with the rise of the Frankish house Meier ( Pippin the Middle ). So he planned together with Pope Gregory II the establishment of an independent Bavarian ecclesiastical province. Arguably the division was at that time already carried out in the four dioceses of Regensburg, Freising, Passau and Salzburg. Under Boniface and Duke Odilo, the four dioceses were canonized in 739.

Since about the beginning of the 8th century, was his co-regent son Theudebert. Theodosius divided the tribal duchy of Bavaria on his sons Theudebert, Theudebald, Tassilo and Grimoald.

With Duke Theodosius II starts the unbroken succession of Bavarian rulers.