Bisinus [Pissa by Lombards] of Thuringia

Personal and Family Information

Bisinus was born about 0453, the son of unknown parents. The place is not known.

He died about 0510. The place is not known.

His wife was Menia. They were married, but the date and place have not been found. Their three known children were Bertachar (c0478-c0525), Baderic (c0480-c0529) and Hermanafrid (c0482-?).

Events

Notes

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!StyleName: of Thuringia, King Bisinus [Pissa by Lombards] [~453 - ~510]

!Source: Bisinus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisinus

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Bisinus was the king of Thuringia in the 5th century AD or around 500. He is the earliest historically attested ruler of the Thuringians. Almost nothing more about him can be said with certainty, including whether all the variations on his name in the sources refer to one or two different persons. His name is given as Bysinus, Bessinus or Bissinus in Frankish sources, and as Pissa, Pisen, Fisud or Fisut in Lombard ones.[1]

History

Bisinus was the first husband of Menia,[2] a fact attested only in the 9th-century Historia Langobardorum codicis Gothani.[3][4] He had a daughter, Raicunda, who became the first wife of the Lombard king Wacho ,[5] a fact attested in all three of the main Lombard chronicles .[6][7][8] Menia later married a man of the Gausus family and became the mother of Audoin, who in 540 became the regent of Wacho's son by his third wife, Walthari, and then succeeded him to the throne in 546.[2]

Bisinus was also the father of the three brothers who ruled Thuringia in the 520s and 530s: Hermanafrid, Bertachar and Baderich.[9] Bertachar had a daughter, Radegund, who founded Holy Cross Abbey in Poitiers and was recognised as a saint. She died in 587. Two hagiographies of her were produced by her friends Baudovinia and Venantius Fortunatus.[10][11] Fortunatus specifies that she was "from the Thuringian region", a daughter of King Bertachar and granddaughter of King Bisinus.[12]

While most scholars accept that the Thuringian kings called Bisinus in the Frankish sources and Pissa in the Lombard ones are one and the same, Martina Hartmann rejects the identification and points out that the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire makes no such identification either.[13]

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Location of kingdom

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The location of Bisinus' kingdom is a matter of some debate. Usually it is located in the place of present-day Thuringia, well to the east of the Rhine. An artefact that may be associated with Basina was found in the vicinity of Weimar: a silver ladle engraved with the name Basena that may date to the 5th century.[21] The heartland of 5th-century Thuringia, however, may have initially been west of the Rhine, with the kingdom only expanding eastward in the decades after Bisinus' reign. The 12th-century Liber de compositione castri Ambaziae et ipsius dominorum gesta records that Bisinus' territory lay on the banks of the Saône between Toul and Lyon. It also refers to Bisinus as a dux only and not as a king.[22]

Note: If he were a duke that would mean there was a King over him, and that is doubtful.