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Gontran Boson
Duke
A duke, from a ninth-century manuscript.
Borncirca 545
Died587
ReligionChristians

Gontran Boson or Gontran The Cunning, born around 545 and died in 587, was a Frankish duke in the service of the Merovingian kings Sigebert I and Childebert II.

Close to royal power, Gontran Boson was closely involved in the civil war (568-613) between the three parts of the Frankish kingdom: the eastern part ruled by Sigebert and then his son Childebert, the western part ruled by Chilperic, and the former Burgundian kingdom ruled by King Guntram. He first fought against Thibert, Chilperic's first son, then became a companion in the adventures of Meroveta, the king's second son. He then introduced Gondoald, a pretender to the kingdom of the Franks. Hated for this by King Gontran, he was eventually handed over to the latter when the latter came to terms with his nephew Childebert. He was stripped of his possessions and put to death.

Historians remember him particularly for his military skills and superstitious nature. They portray him as a volatile schemer, particularly hated by the main source of his story, Bishop Gregory of Tours.

Context

Source

Gontran Boson (Latin: Gunthchramn Boso, German: Gounth'khramn Bosso[1]) or Gontran the Cunning[2][3][note 1] is best known from Bishop Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks (538/539-594), completed in the summer of 591[4]. The bishop also mentions him in another of his works, The Book of Saint Martin's miracles[5]. Gontran appears more marginally in another source: the second part of the Burgundian Chronicle known as “Frédégaire's” (c. 643)[6][note 2].

The kingdom of the Franks in the 2nd century

Gaul in 561, after the division of the Frankish kingdom between Clotaire's sons.

Unchallenged masters of Gaul since the end of the 5th century, the Franks were ruled by the Merovingian dynasty. In 511, on the death of King Clovis, his four surviving sons, Thierry (or Theodoric), Clodomir, Childebert and Clothar (or Chlothaire) shared his kingdom[7][8][9]. In 558, after the death of his brothers and their male descendants, Clotaire succeeded in reunifying the kingdom[10]. However, the king died a few years later in 561, and the kingdom was divided between four of his sons: Caribert (or Charibert), Guntram, Sigebert (or Sighebert) and Chilpéric (or Chilperich)[11]. The first was in the west, the second in the southeast, the third in the northeast and the last in the north[11]. At the end of 567, Caribert, Clotaire's eldest son, died without a male heir. His brothers shared his domain[12][13][14].

Chilperic's first queen was the Frankish Audovera, from whom he had three sons, Thibert (or Théodebert), Mérovée (or Mérowig), Clovis and a daughter Basine[15][16]. In the spring of 566, his brother Sigebert made a more prestigious marriage by obtaining the hand of Brunhilda (or Brunehaut), daughter of the Visigoth king of Spain[17][18]. After abandoning Audovère for a servant named Frédégonde, Chilpéric asked Brunehilde's sister Galswinthe to marry him in the summer of 568[19][20]. The marriage was not a happy one, and a few months later Chilperic had Galswinthe's throat slit by a slave. Shortly afterwards, he married his mistress, Frédégonde[21][22]. Brunehilde then demanded revenge, leading to civil war between the kingdoms of Chilperic and Sigebert[21][23].

Biography

Princes Thibert and Mérovée

In the spring of 575, Chilperic I decided to attack his brother Sigebert's kingdom for the second time. Leading an army, he seized Soissons and Reims. His eldest son Thibert, commanding a second force, took Cahors and Limoges[24][25]. As Sigebert set out against his brother, he chose two military dukes from his staff to oppose the prince: Godegisel and Gontran Boson[26][27][24][25]. The dukes assembled an army and marched against the prince. Near Angoulême, the two armies met, but Thibert's troops quickly fell apart. Thibert even loses his life in the battle[26][27][28][24][25]. Once the battle was over, the two dukes returned to Tours, the main city under Sigebert's rule in the region[29].

Shortly afterwards, in the autumn of 575, King Sigebert was assassinated while besieging Chilperic in the city of Tournai[30][27][31][32][33]. Queen Brunehilde (or Brunehaut) was captured in Paris and exiled to Rouen. However, Chilperic was unable to get his hands on his five-and-a-half-year-old nephew Childebert. Childebert was then proclaimed king by the great men of the kingdom in Metz for Christmas 575[34][27][35][36]. One of Sigebert's followers, Gogon (or Gogo), governed the country for the child, with the title of “king's nurse”[37][38][36].

In the spring of 576, Chilperic sent Count Roccolène du Mans to seize the surrounding strongholds, including the city of Tours. Duke Godegisel managed to escape before the Manceaux arrived, but Gontran Boson, who had brought his family to the city, was unable to do so. He is forced to take refuge in the city's basilica, under the protection of Bishop Gregory of Tours. Roccolène wanted to get him out so that he could be tried for Thibert's death, but Grégoire refused by virtue of the church's right of asylum[29][39]. Roccolène then left the city to continue his conquest. He then went to Poitiers, where he died a few days later[29][40][41].

The Basilica of Saint-Martin de Tours (rebuilt in the early 20th century), home of Gontran Boson in 576.

Chilperic sent his son Mérovée (or Mérowig) to continue the Roccolène campaign. Arriving in Tours on Easter 576, Mérovée left his army and headed for Rouen. Having fallen in love with Queen Brunehilde, he went to see her and asked his godfather, Bishop Pretextatus, to marry them. King Chilperic was quickly informed and arrived in Rouen to separate the two lovers[42][43][40][41]. He then stripped his son of his arms[44][45] and had him tonsured and ordained a priest in the summer or autumn of 576[46][43][47][48]. The queen was sent back to her son in Metz[49][38][50]. On hearing of the prince's misadventures, Gontran Boson sent the sub-deacon Ricou to tell him to take refuge in the Basilica of Saint-Martin in Tours[46][3]. Meroveius, finding the idea interesting, returned to Tours under the protection of Bishop Gregory[51]. Chilperic then mobilized an army and marched towards Tours. Meanwhile, Gontran Boson consults a fortune-teller who predicts Chilperic's death, Merovee's accession to the throne and a dukedom for himself, followed by a bishopric. Gregory scoffed at his belief in divination, advising him instead to direct his attentions to God[46].

At the beginning of 577, aware that his future in Touraine was limited, Mérovée decided to join his wife in Metz, accompanied by Gontran Boson and their respective men. And, to avoid his father's army, Meroveve passed through the kingdom of his uncle Gontran[46][47][52][51]. At Auxerre, one of the latter's dukes captured the prince, but he managed to escape and eventually joined Gontran Boson at Metz[46][3][47]. Fearing open war with Chilperic, the other great rulers of the kingdom refused to protect him. However, Brunehilde helped him find refuge in a villa in Champagne[46][47][51]. Later in the year, Meroveve was lured into a trap by Queen Frédégonde. Rather than be captured, he asked one of his companions to end his life[53][43][3][54][55]. Gontran Boson and Bishop Gilles of Reims are accused by some of having been involved in this plot with Frédégonde[53][3][56].

At the end of 577, Gontran Boson, accompanied by a few men, returned to Tours to collect his daughters, whom he had left in the Basilica of Saint-Martin. He sheltered them in Poitiers, a town belonging to Childebert. Unfortunately for him, a few days later, Chilperic seized the city. Gontran had just enough time to leave his daughters in the safety of the Church of Saint-Hilaire before fleeing in a hurry[57][58]. Early the following year, Gontran and his men returned to Poitiers to get the girls out, but were spotted by Duke Dracolene, the city's new governor. Gontran Boson tries to negotiate, but to no avail. Dracolène draws his spear and sword, but misses. Boson and his friends swoop down on him and eliminate him. Gontran takes back his daughters and leaves Poitou[59][58].

The suitor Gondovald

In 581, Gogon (or Gogo), King Childebert's fosterer, died. He was replaced by Waldalenus (or Wandelin), a close associate of Bishop Gilles of Reims[60]. From then on, Wandelène was the shadow ruler of the kingdom of Metz. Very close to King Chilperic (or Chilperich), Gilles concluded an alliance between their two kingdoms against that of Gontran[61][62]. To bolster his hold on power, the bishop took care of the kingdom's leading figures. He offered Gontran Boson a position of great responsibility[63].

At the beginning of 582, Gontran Boson was sent by Gilles on a diplomatic mission to Constantinople on behalf of the kingdom's leaders. He came to the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire in search of Gundoald (or Gondowald), the bastard son of King Chlothar (or Chlothaire). Emperor Tiberius and Childebert's grandees needed a suitor to destabilize King Gontran's territory. Gontran Boson and Gondovald landed in Marseille in the summer of 582 with a rich treasure provided by the emperor64,[64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71]. The next step was to place Gondovald under the protection of the former patrician Mummolus in Avignon. He was then to raise a powerful army and conquer Gontran's kingdom in the pretender's name. However, at the beginning of 583, the nobles made a pact with Chilperic against Gontran, and abandoned the Gondovald option. The pretender withdrew to an island in Provence, while Gontran Boson and Duke Dynamius of Marseille shared part of the imperial treasury. Boson then left Marseille to return home to Auvergne[64][67][68][69][note 3].

In the spring of 583, Gontran Boson went to Metz to report on his embassy to Constantinople. Once this mission was completed, he and his family headed back to Auvergne. As he crossed Gontran's kingdom, he was arrested and sent before the king at Chalon[72]. The king accused him of having introduced the usurper Gondovald into Gaul. To clear his name, Boson accused Mummol of being solely responsible for the affair. He even offers to bring the traitor before the king. The king accepts the deal, but keeps one of Boson's sons as a hostage. Gontran Boson recruited a small troop of Auvergnats and Vellavii and set off for Avignon via the road to Uzès[72]. Boson undertook the siege. But when the matter reached the ears of the great men of Metz, they immediately sent Duke Gondoulf to stop the blockade of one of their cities by one of their dukes. However, Gondoulf forces Mummol to follow Gontran Boson to the King of Chalon. But as soon as he arrived in Auvergne, the former patrice returned home[72][73].

“You, lord and king, you sit on a royal throne, no one dared to answer you when you spoke. Now I declare that I am not responsible for this thing. If, then, there is anyone of similar condition to myself who is secretly accusing me of this crime, let him come now and speak out in the open. Then, O most pious King, you will entrust the matter to God's judgment to be decided when he sees us fighting on the field in a field.”

—Gontran Boson to King Gontran

In September 584, King Chilperic was assassinated at Chelles[74][67][75]. The throne fell to his four-month-old newborn son Chlothar, under the regency of his mother Fredegund[76][77]. In 580, Frédégonde had eliminated Prince Clovis, the last surviving son of the former queen Audovera[78]. King Gontran thus became the strongman of the Frankish kingdoms[79][80]. To counter this, Queen Brunhilda (or Brunehaut) and the great men of Metz approached the former patrician Mummolus to recruit the pretender Gundoald once again. With a small army, Gondovald seized several territories in Aquitaine[81][67][82]. In December 584, King Gontran organized a plea in Paris to divide with his nephew Childebert the lands that Chilperic had illegally conquered from their two kingdoms. Childebert did not attend in person. Instead, he sent several grandees, including Bishop Gilles and Gontran Boson. As soon as they arrived, King Gontran inveighed his namesake, accusing him of having brought Gondovald from the East to dethrone him. Gontran Boson declares his innocence before the assembly and proposes to settle the matter by a judicial duel. No one dared question his word[83][1][69][note 4].

Disqualification and death

In March 585, King Gontran launched an army against Gundoald (or Gondowald), who was eliminated after being besieged in the stronghold of Comminges[84][85][86][87]. In the autumn of 585, Gontran le Boson sent his servants to plunder the tomb of a wealthy relative of his wife, in order to recover her jewels. Unfortunately, the servants are spotted by monks. So they decide to return the goods and denounce their sponsor. Gontran is then summoned to a plea at Basbellain in the Ardennes. King Childebert summons him to come and explain himself. The duke, aware that he was risking his life, preferred to flee. His property in Auvergne was seized by the royal tax authorities[88][89][90]. At the end of 585, Waldalenus (or Wandelin), Childebert's foster father, died. Queen Brunhilda (or Brunehaut) did not have him replaced, and was thus able to seize the real power[91][92][93].

Gontran Boson, who had repeatedly inveighed against the queen during Wandelene's regency, found himself in a bad position[94][95][96]. He was now politically expendable, and his arrest could be a sign of reconciliation to send to King Gontran[97]. In early 587, he tried to win back King Childebert's favor through the intermediary of bishops, but was unsuccessful and the king ordered his death[94][95][96]. Gontran took refuge in the church of Verdun and begged for help from bishop Agericus (or Agherich), the king's own godfather. Agherich gets his godson to allow Gontran Boson to come and explain himself to him. The duke prostrates himself at the king's feet and asks for clemency. Childebert agreed to lift the death sentence and authorized Agéric to keep Boson with him until he was judged by King Gontran himself[94][95][68][96].

Gaul in 587, after the official reconciliation between King Gontran and his nephew Childebert.

In October 587, envoys from King Gontran arrived at the home of his nephew Childebert and asked him to meet them on the borders of the two kingdoms. The chosen location was Pont-de-Pierre, on the road between Toul and Langres. In November 587, King Childebert was accompanied by his mother Brunehilde, his sister Chlodosinda (or Clodosinde) and his wife Faïléouba (or Faileuba). He is also accompanied by Magnéric, bishop of Trier, Agéric, bishop of Verdun, and Duke Gontran Boson[98][99][100]. The latter was then tried by the two kings without defense, and sentenced to death. On learning of this, Gontran Boson took refuge in the house where Magnéric was staying. King Gontran orders the house to be set on fire. Magnéric is exfiltrated by his clerics. Gontran le Boson is forced out. Exposed, he is pierced by several spears and dies. His wife and sons were sent into exile and his property confiscated[98][101][99][100].

In 588, Bishop Agéric took his children to Verdun. Feeling guilty of having orphaned them, he died of starvation some time later[102][68].

Character

Bishop Gregory of Tours, who spent several months with Gontran Boson, passed judgment on him in his Histoire des Francs. He criticized him for being “light in his conduct, inclined to avarice, inordinately greedy of other people's goods, swearing his faith to everyone and keeping his promises to no one”[98]. After his death, King Childebert's men discovered his treasures buried underground[98]. The historian Bruno Dumézil believes that Grégoire “has only an aesthetic fascination for Gontran Boson, the kind one might feel for the baroque figure of the pathological traitor”[103]. Grégoire admits that, although Gontran is a worthy man, he is “too accustomed to perjury, and to none of his friends has he sworn an oath that he has not immediately violated”[46]. The historian Constantin Zuckerman also finds that the duke “was one of the characters most hated by Gregory of Tours”[104].

Modern historians, such as Professor Pierre Riché, portray him as a schemer[68]. Riché, on the other hand, has no doubts about his friendship with the rebellious prince Mérovée[68]. Biographer Georges Bordonove, on the other hand, believes that Gontran Boson “came to terms” with Frédégonde and delivered Merove to her[3]. Historian Robert Latouche finds him of “dubious morality” and “notoriously inconstant in his conduct”[105]. Dumézil confirms that Gontran was “a man whose intelligence was far more famous than his loyalty”[106]. Historian Ferdinand Lot calls Gontran “one of the most restless and ambitious characters of the time”[66]. Historian and numismatist Maximin Deloche described him as a “sad and odious character”[107]. Journalist and historian Roger-Xavier Lantéri concedes that, while his versatility is mocked, he is nonetheless a seasoned leader and “has proved his boldness many times over"[1]. Dumézil suggests that Gontran Boson rallied around him a pro-Byzantine party in opposition to Gogon's faction in favor of alliance with King Gontran and Gilles’, who preferred Chilperic's friendship[108].

Gregory also resented Gontran's use of soothsayers and spells[98]. Although superstitious, Gontran Boson was a Christian[109]. In 577, during his battle against Duke Dracolene, Gregory reports that Gontran, “seeing death ready to fall upon him, invoked the name of God and the great virtue of Blessed Martin”[59]. On another occasion, as he crossed the floating bridge linking Tours to the town of Amboise, the wind blew away the boats carrying the bridge. Gontran calls out loudly for help from Martin de Tours. The wind dies down and Gontran reaches the shore. Gregory uses this anecdote as a chapter in his Livre des miracles de saint Martin[110]. Aimoin de Fleury's Histoire des Francs (1004) also indicates that Gontran made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land before his embassy to Constantinople[111].

Bibliography

  • Frédégaire (trans. from Latin by Olivier Devillers and Jean Meyers), Chronique des temps mérovingiens, Turnhout, Brepols, coll. "Miroir du Moyen ge", 2003 (ISBN 978-2-503-51151-1).
  • Grégoire de Tours (trans. from Latin by Robert Latouche), Histoire des Francs, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, coll. "Les Classiques de l'histoire de France au Moyen ge", 1995 (ISBN 978-2-251-34047-0).
  • Grégoire de Tours (trans. from Latin by Henri Bordier), Le Livre des miracles de saint Martin, Clermont-Ferrand, Éditions Paléo, coll. "Sources de l'histoire de France", 2003, 236 p. (ISBN 978-2-84909-029-9).
  • Georges Bordonove, Clovis et les Mérovingiens, Paris, Pygmalion, coll. "Les Rois qui ont fait la France", 1988, 318 p. (ISBN 978-2-7564-0244-4).
  • Christine Delaplace, "L'affaire Gondovald et le dispositif défensif de l'Aquitaine wisigothique et franque", Aquitania, no 25, 2009, p. 199-211 (read online).
  • Maximin Deloche, "Deuxième mémoire sur le monnayage en Gaule au nom de l'empereur Maurice Tibère", Mémoires de l'Institut de France, vol. 30, no 2, 1883, pp. 439-464 (read online).
  • Bruno Dumézil, La reine Brunehaut, Paris, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 2008, 560 p. (ISBN 978-2-213-63170-7).
  • Sébastien Filion, Histoire et rhétorique : Grégoire de Tours et les guerres civiles mérovingiennes, Montréal, Université de Montréal, 2017, 257 p. (read online).
  • Antoine-François Flobert, Brunehault: Etude historique, Colmar, Decker, 1853, 138 p. (read online).
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  • Hervé Inglebert, Atlas de Rome et des barbares : La fin de l'Empire romain en Occident (iiie - vie siècle), Paris, Autrement, coll. "Atlas-mémoires", 2009, 80 p. (ISBN 978-2-7467-1267-6).
  • Roger-Xavier Lantéri, Brunehilde: La première reine de France, Paris, Éditions Perrin, 1995, 416 p. (ISBN 978-2-262-01125-3).
  • Raymond Lizop, "La fin de Gondowald et la destruction de Lugdunum Convenarum en 585", Annales du Midi, 1926, p. 402-423 (read online).
  • Ferdinand Lot, Naissance de la France, Paris, Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1948, 793 p. (read online).
  • Ecaterina Lung, "Barbarian envoys at Byzantium int he 6th century", Hiperboreea Journal, vol. 2, no. 1, 2015, pp. 35-52 (read online).
  • Patrick Périn and Pierre Riché, Dictionnaire des Francs : Les Temps mérovingiens, Paris, Éditions Bartillat, 1996 (ISBN 978-2-84100-008-1).
  • Luce Pietri, La ville de Tours du IVe au VIe siècle : Naissance d'une cité chrétienne, Rome, École française de Rome, coll. "Publications de l'École française de Rome" (no. 69), 1983, 853 p. (read online).
  • Constantin Zuckerman, "Qui a rappelé en Gaule le ballomer Gondovald?", Francia, vol. 25, no 1, 1998, p. 1-18 (read online).

References and notes

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  111. ^ Goubert (1941, p. 417)

Notes

  1. ^ Boson may have been Gontran's nickname. The theologian Antoine-François Flobert translates it as “cunning” or “wicked”. Journalist Roger-Xavier Lantéri translates it as “dreaded”. Writer and biographer Georges Bordonove translates it as “cunning”.
  2. ^ Frédégaire is an imaginary name coined from the names of the chronicle's first two editors in 1598, Marquard Freher and Joseph Scaliger.
  3. ^ In 1998, historian Constantin Zuckerman developed another theory in his article "Qui a rappelé en Gaule le ballomer Gondovald? He believes that Gondovald was recalled to Gaul by the great men of Metz to serve as a possible successor to Childebert and new husband to Brunehilde (or Brunehaut).
  4. ^ Zuckerman demonstrates in "Who recalled the balloonist Gondovald to Gaul?" that Gontran Boson was merely an executor in the Gondovald affair.

See also

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