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About a Lombard of the family of Gausus
- NOT a known king of the Lombards
- NOT a known son of Zucchilon, king of the Lombards
- NOT a known BRO of Waccho, king of the Lombards
- NOT born in Lombardy, Italy: the Lombards invaded Italy in 568 and founded the Lombard-Italian Empire.
- PLZ source for: "general" for the Ostrogoths
- NOT the 1st husband of Ménia :
His name is given as Bysinus, Bessinus or Bissinus in Frankish sources,
and as Pissa, Pisen, Fisud or Fisut in Lombard ones.[1]
Menia war die Gattin des ersten namentlich bekannten Thüringerkönigs Bisin (oder Basin).[2] Mit ihm hatte sie drei namentlich bekannte Söhne, Herminafried, Berthachar und Baderich, die nach dem Tod ihres Vaters das Reich unter sich aufteilten, sowie eine Tochter, Raicunda,[2] die um 510 den lethingischen Langobardenkönig Wacho heiratete, aber bald darauf starb und kinderlos blieb.[2] Menia ging, wohl nach dem Tod Bisins, zusammen mit ihrer Tochter in Wachos Langobardenreich an der mittleren Donau und heiratete dort etwa um 510 in zweiter Ehe einen Langobarden aus Gausus’ Geschlecht. Aus dieser Ehe ging Audoin hervor, der spätere König des pannonischen Langobardenreichs an der unteren Donau.[3] Unter Audoins Sohn Alboin fielen die Langobarden im Jahr 568 in Italien ein und begründeten das italienische Langobardenreich.
-http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HUNGARY.htm#AlboinLombardsdied572A
[---] . King of the Pissa.
m MENIA ---. The Historia Langobardorum names "mater…Audoin…Menia uxor fuit Pissæ regis"[149]. This wording suggests that "Pissæ regis" was not the father of Audoin, presumably Menia's second husband. It is assumed that "Pissæ" indicates that he was king of a tribe of that name.
his wife had one child:
- 1. AUDOIN (-in Pannonia 560). ... ... ... ....
m firstly RODELINDA [Roddenda], daughter of ---. ... ...
m secondly --- of the Thuringians, daughter of HERMINAFRID King of the Thuringians & his wife Amalaberga the Ostrogoth. ... ...
King Audoin & his first wife had [two] children:
By a relationship with an unnamed man of the Gausian family—a Gausus, perhaps a Geat, according to the Historia Langobardorum—she was the mother of Audoin, king of the Lombards from 546.[1]
Menia went, probably after Bisin's death, together with her daughter to Wacho's Lombard kingdom on the central Danubeand married there around 510 in her second marriage to a [Lombard] from Gausus' family. From this marriage came Audoin
After the death of her husband Bizin, she went with her daughter Radegunda to the Lombard Kingdom of Wacho on the middle Danube, and around 510 she married for the second time a [Lombard] an unknown name of the Gaussian family (Gauss). From this marriage she has a son: Audoin († ca. 560),
Menia herself married a second time to an unknown by name member of the noble Lombard family of Gauss.
References
- https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~havens5/genealogy/p34643.htm
- http://fabpedigree.com/s028/f295412.htm
Notes from Sharon Elizabeth Richards user:
<<Menia herself married a second time to an unknown by name member of the noble Lombard family of Gauss; >>.
I don't know if it is the translation or just ingnorance but this is completely wrong. The Gaussi became an important ruling clan of the Lombards in the late 6th century...probably after Audoin's son, Alboin led them into Italy:
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Count Pitzia was a valuable military asset of King Theodoric I -Ostrogothic King of Italy. He served in many battles in Pannonia and the hinterlands of the Eastern Empire. As a Gausi, or Geat, he was a Goth by birth.
He married Menia and they had Audoin. Interestingly, Amalaberga, the wife of Hermenfried was the daughter of Amalafrida and Thrasamond of the Vandals; Amalafrida was the daughter of Theodomir and the sister of Theodoric "the great" Ostrogoth king of Italy, making Amalaberga his niece. Given these connections it is highly likely that Count Pitzia knew the family and would have been accepted as the second husband of Menia.
Unfortunately late in the career of Theodoric "the great", he murdered Count Pitzia over some dispute involving perceived disloyalty and it is said that he lived to regret his actions.- Wolfram, Herwig, "The History of the Goths"
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The Gausi traced their lineage back to the Goths and they were a prominent family when, in 539, the tribe came under the rule of a minor, Walthari of the Lethings clan, and a Gausian, Audoin, was elected his regent. In 547, Audoin succeeded Walthari, who died young of natural causes, and assumed the royal mantle by usurpation. Audoin's son and successor, Alboin, led the Lombards into Italy in 569 and died without male heirs in 572 or 573. He had made the Lombard kings into kings of Italy. His successor was Cleph of the Beleos clan.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Gausian_dynasty
Om a Lombard of the family of Gausus (Norsk)
Kongen av Pissa.
m gift med Menia moren til Audoin --.Historia Langobardorum Codicis Gothani 5, MGH SS rer Lang I, p. 9".
"mater... Audoin... Menia uxor fuit Pissæ regis.
"Denne ordlyden antyder at "Pissæ regis" ikke var far til Audoin, antagelig Menias andre ektemann. Det antas at "Pissæ" viser at han var konge av en stamme av navnet.
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