Wachilap 1

Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire
SexM
FloruitL VII/E VIII
Dates703 (taq) / 703 (tpq)
Variant NamesWachilapus;
Wacchilappus;
Wacchilipus;
Wacchilapus;
Wachilaphus;
Vachilapus;
Vulchilla
EthnicityLombard
LocationsSpoletium (Umbria) (officeplace);
Spoletium (Umbria) (residence);
Spoletium (Umbria)
Textual SourcesPaulus Diaconus, Historia Gentis Langobardorum, ed. L. Bethmann and G. Waitz, MGH, Scr. Rer. Lang., pp. 12-187; also in MGH, Scr. Rer. Ger. 48, pp. 49-242 (history)

Wachilap 1 was brother of the Lombard dux of Spoletium Transamundus (Trasimund 2); he ruled the ducatus together with his brother ("cum fratre pariter eundem rexit ducatum"); Trasimund died (in 703) and was succeeded by his son, Wachilap's nephew, Faroald 1: Paul. Diac., Hist. Lang. VI 30.

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