- Lupus I of Aquitaine
Lupus I (also "Lupo", "Loup", "Lobo", "Otsoa", or "Otxoa") was the
Duke of Gascony and Aquitaine from about670 . His reign may have lasted a few years (to676 ) or longer (to710 [ [http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/38128 Estornés.] ] ). He is often considered the progenitor of the Gascon dynasty of Lupus II and the Aquitainian dynasty the Eudonians.Lupus was the successor of Felix, whose duchy seemed to encompass almost an identical territory to the kingdom of
Charibert II . Sometime after658 , Lupus rebelled against Felix and later succeeded him. ["Miracula". The rebellion was recorded to occur during the mayorship ofEbroin .] He heldToulouse andBordeaux in673 , at which time he allied withFlavius Paulus againstWamba , the king of theVisigoths , and attackedBéziers . [Lewis, p 400 and n127. Julian of Toledo, p 524-5, calls him "princeps".] He convoked the important synod ofBordeaux between 673 and 675. [Ibid. Higounet, p 20 and n43. "viro inlustri Lupone duce" was faithful toChilderic II .] In675 , he attempted to seizeLimoges , to his own destruction. He was assassinated in the process, the author of the Miracle ofSaint Martial writing "in sedem regam se adstare". ["Miracula". This reference to his "kingdom" or "realm" is often taken as evidence of his "de facto" independent status (as in Lewis), which was certainly the status of his next known successor,Odo the Great .] Thereafter, the sources are silent about him and his successor(s).Notes
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*Estornés Lasa, Bernardo. [http://www.euskomedia.org/aunamendi/38128 Auñamendi Encyclopedia: Ducado de Vasconia] .
* [http://home.yawl.com.br/hp/sedycias/historia2_04d.htm Sedycias, João. "História da Língua Espanhola".]
* [http://books.google.com/books/pdf/Histoire_de_la_Gascogne.pdf?id=sHW_kCR87l8C&output=pdf&sig=KDJUp8tgj00AvnNhQuhkFl1Daow Monlezun, Jean Justin. "Histoire de la Gascogne". 1846.]
* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/GASCONY.htm Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: Gascony.]
*Lewis, Archibald R. " [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28197607%2951%3A3%3C381%3ATDITRF%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 The Dukes in the Regnum Francorum, A.D. 550-751.] " "Speculum", Vol. 51, No. 3. (Jul., 1976), pp. 381-410.
*Higounet, Charles. "Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age". Bordeaux, 1963.
*Julian of Toledo . "Historia Wambæ regis". MGH SS rer Merov V.
*"Miracula Sancti Martialis Lemovicensis". MGH SS XV.
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