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Personal data Grasulfo "Grasulph" di Friuli duca di Friuli 

• Nickname is Grasulph.
• He was born about 532 TO ABT 570 in Friuli.
• Profession: .

  {geni:job_title} Duc, de Frioul, 581

• He died about 590 in Friuli, Germany.
• A child of Gisulfo di Friuli and N.N. of the Lombards
• This information was last updated on March 30, 2012.

Household of Grasulfo "Grasulph" di Friuli duca di Friuli

He has/had a relationship with Romhilde d'Austrasie.

Child(ren):

1. Gisulfo di Friuli  ± 552-± 611 

Notes about Grasulfo "Grasulph" di Friuli duca di Friuli

[Ahnentafel by Philippe Houdry, from various sources, ver. 3 (Aug. 31,
1994) posted by Tom Camfield]: Grasulf I de Frioul, Duke of Frioul 581.

#Générale##Générale#Profession : Duc de Frioul en 581

{geni:occupation} Duke of Friuli, Duc, de Frioul, 581, duc de Frioul, Duc de Frioul (2e, 581-vers 594)

{geni:about_me} From the Wikipedia page on Grasulf I of Friuli:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasulf_I_of_Friuli

Grasulf I (died after 571) was a brother of Alboin, the first Lombard King of Italy, and possibly the first Duke of Friuli. Grasulf's son, Gisulf, is the other candidate for first Duke of Friuli. Paul the Deacon names Gisulf, but some scholars have favoured Grasulf based on a diplomatic letter which refers to him as duke.

This letter was written by Gogo, Frankish mayor of the palace of Austrasia under Sigebert I and Childebert II, sometime between Gogo's rise to power in 571 and his death in 581. Sadly it is undated and unattached to the name of either king he served. It has traditionally been assigned to around the year of his death (581), but an alternative solution put forward by Walter Goffart places it as early as 571–572 around the time of Sigebert's embassy to Constantinople. In it Gogo urges Grasulf to ally himself with the Franks to oust the infestantes (presumably the Lombards) from Italy in league with the Byzantine Empire and the Papacy. Ambassadors were waiting in Austrasia for Grasulf's reply in case he wished to delay his response to the emperor.

While the exact location of Grasulf's seat of power is unknown, if he did rule, the letter from Gogo is evidence that the "Friulian court" was capable of handling sophisticated imperial correspondence less than a decade after the Lombard arrival on Italian soil.

Sources

Bachrach, Bernard S. The Anatomy of a Little War: A Diplomatic and Military History of the Gundovald Affair (568–586). Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.

Everett, Nicholas. Literacy in Lombard Italy, c. 568–774. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0 521 81905 9.

Nelson, Janet L. "Queens as Jezebels: Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian History." Medieval Women: Essays Dedicated and Presented to Professor Rosalind M. T. Hill, ed. D. Baker. Studies in Church History: Subsidia, vol. 1 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1978), pp. 31–77. Reprinted in Politics and Ritual in Early Medieval Europe. London: Hambledon Press, 1986. ISBN 0 907628 59 1.

SOURCE NOTES:
http://www.american-pictures.com/genealogy/persons/per02774.htm#0
http://www.claude.barret.net/html/dat104.htm#4
http://www.afn.org/|lawson/d0002/g0000055.html\I8718

RESEARCH NOTES:
Duke of Friuli 581

DUKE OF FRIULI ca. 589

DUKE OF FRIULI ca. 575

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