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Tassilo III (c. 741 – c. 796) was the duke of Bavaria from 748 to 788, the last of the house of the Agilolfings. He was the son of Duke Odilo of Bavaria and Hitrud, daughter of Charles Martel.
Tassilo III was the duke of Bavaria from 748 to 788, the last of the house of the Agilolfings. He was the son of Duke Odilo of Bavaria and Hitrud, daughter of Charles Martel.
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Thus the wife of the last Agilolfing duke, Tassilo III (748-88) was daughter of the Lombard king Desiderius (757-74) and thus brother-in-law of the exiled claimant Adelchis.
- Roger Collins
- 1998
From these familial connections, he was appointed Prefect of Bavaria following the deposition of Duke Tassilo III in 788. Gerold was heralded as a superb military commander, giving rise to his promotion to Prefect as a defender of the eastern border of the Frankish Kingdom.
May 30, 2021 · Tassilo II (742- 11 Dec or 5 Jan after 794) was the Duke of Bavaria after the death of his father, Odilo, and a takeover by Frankish invaders. The Frank usurper Grifo was deposed by his own brother, King Pepin, and Tassilo restored to the duchy, with his mother as regent until his majority.
It is probably no coincidence that immediately after the apparent resolution in 787 of all remaining military and political problems in Italy, with the submission of duke Arichis II of Benevento and the reception of envoys from Byzantium, that Charles turned his interest towards Bavaria.
