Adalrich | |
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 A mosaic of Adalrich, from his tomb in Mont Sainte-Odile | |
| Duke | |
| Died | 20 November 690 |
| Honored in | Catholic Church |
| Feast | 20 November |
Adalrich (Latin: Adalricus; reconstructed Frankish: *Adalrik; died after c. 683 AD), also known as Eticho,[a] was the Duke of Alsace, the founder of the family of the Etichonids and an important and influential figure in the power politic of late-seventh-century Austrasia. He may possibly be a progenitor of the House of Habsburg.[1]
Adalrich's family originated in the pagus Attoariensis[2] around Dijon in northern Burgundy. In the mid-seventh century, they began to be major founders and patrons of monasteries in the region under a duke named Amalgar and his wife Aquilina.[3] They founded a convent at Brégille and an abbey for men at Bèze, installing children in both abbacies. They were succeeded by their third child, Adalrich,[4] who was the father of Adalrich, Duke of Alsace.
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- ^ "Karl von Habsburg: Die Anfänge". www.karlvonhabsburg.at. Retrieved 2023-10-07.
- ^ The placename survived in the ninth-century title of Isembard, comte d'Attuyer/Atuyer son of Adalard, comte de Chalon. ("Les comtes de Chalon-sur-Saône")
- ^ The duke Amalgar and his wife Aquilina, said to be the daughter of Waldelenus, dux in the region between the Alps and the Jura, and Flavia, feature in a reconstructed genealogy linking the Etichonids of Alsace with a Gallo-Roman ancestry through Flavia, were noted in Christian Settipani, "La transition entre mythe et réalité", Archivum 37 (1992:27-67); Settipani speculates on Flavia's connections with Felix Ennodius and Syagria.
- ^ He is referred to as Liutheric, a mayor of the palace, in the Life of Odilia.