# Gombald

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'''Gundobald''' or '''Gombald'''<ref>[French](/source/French_language): ''Gombaud'', [Latin](/source/Latin_language): ''Gunbaldus'' and ''Gomboldus''.</ref> (died after 998) was the [Archbishop of Bordeaux](/source/Archbishop_of_Bordeaux) from 989 to his death. He was the ''episcopus Gasconum'', bishop of the [Gascons](/source/Gascons), from 978, holding the episcopal dignity in all the Gascon sees. He was the third son of [Sancho IV of Gascony](/source/Sancho_IV_of_Gascony) and thus a brother of [Sancho V](/source/Sancho_V_of_Gascony) and [William II](/source/William_II_of_Gascony), successive [dukes of Gascony](/source/dukes_of_Gascony).

In 977, he refounded the monastery of [La Réole](/source/La_R%C3%A9ole). He and his brother William together had complete control of the ecclesiastical and secular administration of Gascony, which allowed the duchy to prosper and reenter history after a period of obscurity during their rule. Gundobald was eventually elevated to the archiepiscopal dignity of Bordeaux. He dedicated the monastery at [Maillezais](/source/Maillezais).

In June 989, he led the [synod of Charroux](/source/synod_of_Charroux), at which the [Peace of God](/source/Peace_of_God) was first proclaimed. He pronounced excommunication on all those who plundered churches, assaulted the clergy, or robbed the rustic poor.<ref>Jordan, 26.</ref>

==Sources==

*Higounet, Charles. ''Bordeaux pendant le haut moyen age''. Bordeaux, 1963.
*[Jordan, William Chester](/source/Jordan%2C_William_Chester). ''Europe in the High Middle Ages''. London: Viking, 2003.

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Category:Archbishops of Bordeaux
Category:10th-century archbishops
Category:Bishops of Bazas

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