Bladast
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bladast or Bladastes was a Frankish dux during the reigns of Chilperic I and Chlothar II.
In 583, Chilperic I gave the province of Aquitaine to Bladast and Desiderius and sent them into Vasconia with the Aquitainian army. They were defeated.[1]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Gregory, I.vi.12, says Bladastes veri dux in Vasconiam abiit maximamque partem exercitus sui amisit.
[edit] Sources
- Gregory of Tours. Historia Francorum. translated Earnest Brehaut, 1916.
- Lewis, Archibald R. "The Dukes in the Regnum Francorum, A.D. 550-751." Speculum, Vol. 51, No 3 (July 1976), pp 381–410.
