# Bodegisel

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'''Bodegisel''' (also spelled '''Bodygisil''', died 585 or 588) was a [Frankish](/source/Franks) duke (''dux''). He was the son of [Mummolin](/source/Mummolin_of_Soissons), duke of Soissons, and served the kings [Chilperic I](/source/Chilperic_I) and [Childebert II](/source/Childebert_II).{{sfn|Stiennon|1979|p=24}}

Bodegisel was ''dux'' of Provence. He was celebrated in song by the contemporary poet [Venantius Fortunatus](/source/Venantius_Fortunatus),{{sfn|Lewis|1976|p=386 n. 21}} who praised the education and eloquence he displayed as ''rector'' of Marseilles under [Sigebert I](/source/Sigebert_I), a position Bodegisel held until about 565.{{sfn|Reimitz|2015|p=92}}

In 584, Bodegisel accompanied [Rigunth](/source/Rigunth), the daughter of [Chilperic I](/source/Chilperic_I), to Spain for her marriage to [Reccared](/source/Reccared_I), the son of the [Visigothic king](/source/Visigothic_Kingdom) [Liuvigild](/source/Liuvigild), although the marriage never took place.{{sfn|Stiennon|1979|p=24}} After his return, he was sent on an embassy to [Constantinople](/source/Constantinople) (capital of the [Byzantine Empire](/source/Byzantine_Empire)) on behalf of [Childebert II](/source/Childebert_II). Bodegisel stopped at [Carthage](/source/Carthage) on the return trip, and he was murdered there, being torn to pieces by a mob.{{sfn|Stiennon|1979|p=24}} A. C. Murray, paraphrasing [Gregory of Tours](/source/Gregory_of_Tours), says he was struck with a sword as he stepped outside their lodging when a crowd gathered in response to the murder of a merchant committed by one of their retainers.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=W11IOczARWUC&dq=Mummolin&pg=PT302 Murray, Alexander Callander. ''Gregory of Tours: The Merovingians'', University of Toronto Press, 2005], {{ISBN|9781442604148}}</ref>

The bishop and contemporary historian Gregory of Tours records that Bodegisel was able to accomplish the unusual feat of passing on his estate to his heirs undiminished.{{sfn|Lewis|1976|p=393}} However, this history does not explicitly identify Bodegisel's heirs—notably, it does not prove that he was the father of [Arnulf of Metz](/source/Arnulf_of_Metz).

According to Hans-Walter Herrmann and Ulrich Nonn, confusion between Bodegisel and a later duke named '''Bobo''' is responsible for the semi-legendary (and conflated) duke '''Boggis''' who appears in sources from the ninth century on.{{sfn|Stiennon|1979|p=24}} Bobo was a member of an illustrious [Austrasia](/source/Austrasia)n family and a nephew of the deacon [Adalgisel Grimo](/source/Adalgisel_Grimo) (died 634), but where his dukedom was located is unknown.{{sfn|Wickham|2005|p=189}}

According to the thirteenth-century ''Vita sanctae Odae viduae'', Saint [Chrodoara](/source/Chrodoara) was married to a certain duke Boggis and became a nun after his death. According to Herrmann and Nonn, Chrodoara may have been the wife of Bodegisel.{{sfn|Stiennon|1979|p=24}} Writing in the eleventh century, [Sigebert of Gembloux](/source/Sigebert_of_Gembloux) named Boggis a [duke of Aquitaine](/source/duke_of_Aquitaine) and misplaces his life towards 711.{{sfn|Stiennon|1979|p=25}} The ''[Vita Landberti episcopi Traiectensis](/source/Vita_Landberti_episcopi_Traiectensis)'', a life of Bishop [Lambert of Maastricht](/source/Lambert_of_Maastricht), refers to "Chrodoara ... widow of the recently deceased Boggis, duke of Aquitaine" as a "paternal aunt" of Lambert's.<ref>(''Oda ... Bohggis Aquitanorum ducis recens defuncti vidua'') and (''amita'') in ''Vita Landberti episcopi Traiectensis auctore Nicolao'', [MGH](/source/Monumenta_Germaniae_Historica), Scriptores rerum Merovingicarum, VI, p. 415 .</ref> A spurious charter of king [Charles the Bald](/source/Charles_the_Bald) dated 30 January 845 and the ''[Charte d'Alaon](/source/Charte_d'Alaon)'', a modern fabrication, give Bodegisel/Boggis an erroneous genealogy that claims he was a son of king [Charibert II](/source/Charibert_II) and gives him a brother named Bertrand who succeeded him.

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==References==
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*{{cite journal |title=The Dukes in the Regnum Francorum, A.D. 550–751 |author-link=Archibald R. Lewis |first=A. R. |last=Lewis |journal=[Speculum](/source/Speculum_(journal)) |volume=51 |issue=3 |year=1976 |pages=381–410 |doi=10.2307/2851704 |jstor=2851704 |s2cid=162248053 }}
*{{cite book |last=Reimitz |first=Helmut |title=History, Frankish Identity and the Framing of Western Ethnicity, 550–850 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2015 }}
*{{cite journal |last=Stiennon |first=Jacques |title=Le sarcopharge de Sancta Chrodoara à Saint-Georges d'Amay: Essai d'interprétation d'une découverte exceptionnelle |journal=Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres |year=1979 |issue=1 |volume=123 |pages=10–31 |url=http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/crai_0065-0536_1979_num_123_1_13555 }}
*{{cite book |last=Wickham |first=Chris |year=2005 |author-link=Chris Wickham |title=Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400–800 |publisher=Oxford University Press }}
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