Adalgisos 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitM/L VIII
Dates773 (taq) / 788 (tpq)
PmbZ No.7943
Variant NamesAdalgisus;
Adalgis;
Adelgis;
Theodotos
EthnicityLombard
LocationsTicinum (N. Italy) (residence);
Constantinople (residence);
Ticinum (N. Italy);
Rome;
Greater Longobardia;
Italy;
Constantinople;
Verona (N. Italy)
TitlesPatrikios (dignity);
King of the Lombards (office)
Textual SourcesAnnales Regni Francorum, ed. F. Kurze, MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 6 (1895; repr. 1950) (annals);
Liber Pontificalis, ed. L. Duchesne, Le liber pontificalis. Texte, introduction et commentaire, 2 vols. (Paris, 1886-92); re-issued with 3rd vol. by C. Vogel, (Paris, 1955-57) (chronicle);
Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle)

His name was Adalgisos 1, but he is called Theodotos in the Greek sources. The Latin sources also call him Adelgis and Adalgis (see below).

Adalgisos 1 was the son of the Lombard king Desiderius (Desiderios 3); he accompanied his father when Desiderius (Desiderios 3) assembled his army and set out from his palace (in Ticinum) to Rome: Lib. Pont. 97. 23 ("cum Adalgisi proprio filio"). Adalgisos fled to Verona for refuge, with Autchar 1 and the wife and children of Carloman (Karoulomannos 2), when Charlemagne (Karoulos 1) advanced on Pavia (in 773): Lib. Pont. 97. 31. During the siege of Pavia, Charlemagne (Karoulos 1) learned that Adalgisos was in Verona and hastened there with a portion of his troops; Autchar 1 and the wife and children of Carloman (Karoulomannos 2) surrendered to Charlemagne (Karoulos 1) voluntarily and Charlemagne (Karoulos 1) returned to Pavia; what became of Adelgis (sic) is not here mentioned: Lib. Pont. 97. 34.

The son of the Lombard king Desiderios 3; when the Lombards submitted to Charlemagne (Karoulos 1) in 774, Adalgis fled by sea to Constantinople, where he is said to have received the dignity of patrikios and remained into old age: Annales Regni Francorum s.a. 774. In 775 the king of the Lombards Theodotos (i.e. Adalgisos 1) fled to Constantinople for refuge (ὁ τῶν Λογγιβάρδων ρὴξ Θεόδοτος): Theoph. AM 6267. Former king of Greater Longibardia (τοῦ ποτε ρηγὸς τῆς μεγάλης Λογγιβαρδίας), in 788 Adalgisos accompanied a Byzantine expedition under Ioannes 522 to counter the activities of Charlemagne (Karoulos 1) in Italy (and cf. also Theodoros 13): Theoph. AM 6281.

Perhaps father of Grimoald 1 (called Argouses, = Aregis, in Vita.S. Philareti).

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