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Birth:          ABT  550 
Death:           588 Carthage, Africa
Cause of Death: murdered

Notes
appears to have been Governor of Aquitaine
murdered at Carthage while returning from an embassy at Constantinople
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodegisel
Bodegisel (died 585 or 588) was a Frankish duke (dux). He was the son of Mummolin, 
duke of Soissons, and served the kings Chilperic I and Childebert II.[1] According to 
Hans-Walter Herrmann and Ulrich Nonn, confusion between Bodegisel and a later 
duke named Bobo is responsible for the semi-legendary duke Boggis who appears in 
sources from the ninth century on.[1] Bobo was a member of an illustrious Austrasian 
family and a nephew of the deacon Adalgisel Grimo (died 634), but where his dukedom 
was located is unknown.[2]

In 584, Bodegisel accompanied Rigunth, the daughter of Chilperic, to Spain for her 
marriage to Reccared, the son of the Visigothic king Liuvigild, although the marriage 
never took place.[1] After his return, he was sent on an embassy to Constantinople 
(capital of the Byzantine Empire) on behalf of Childebert, who had succeeded 
Chilperic in the interim. Bodegisel stopped at Carthage on the return trip, and he was 
murdered there, being torn to pieces by a mob.[1]

The bishop and contemporary historian Gregory of Tours records that Bodegisel was 
able to accomplish the unusual feat of passing on his estate to his heirs 
undiminished.[3] He was celebrated in song by the contemporary poet Venantius 
Fortunatus.[4]

According to the thirteenth-century Vita sanctae Odae viduae, Saint Chrodoara was 
married to a certain duke Boggis and became a nun after his death. According to 
Herrmann and Nonn, Chrodoara may have been the wife of Bodegisel.[1] Writing in the 
eleventh century, Sigebert of Gembloux named Boggis a duke of Aquitaine and 
misplaces his life towards 711.[5] The Vita Landberti episcopi Traiectensis, a life of 
Bishop Lambert of Maastricht, refers to "Chrodoara ... widow of the recently deceased 
Boggis, duke of Aquitaine" as a "friend" of Lambert's.[6] A spurious charter of king 
Charles the Bald dated 30 January 845 and the Charte d'Alaon, a modern fabrication, 
give Bodegisel/Boggis a genealogy that makes him a son of king Charibert II and 
gives him a brother named Bertrand who succeeded him.

Parents
____ Gandolfus "Saint" (ABT  525 - AFT  599)
----- ----- ()

Siblings
____ Bodegeisel II "Dux" (ABT  550 -  588)

Marriage To ____ Oda (ABT  550 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Oda ABT  550 - 
DE HERISTAL Arnulf "Saint" (13 Aug  582 - 16 Aug  640)

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