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Pilithrude

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Pilithrude (8th century – d. between 725 and 730) was a Duchess consort of Asti by marriage to Theobald of Bavaria and Grimoald of Bavaria.[1]

She married her former brother-in-law, Grimoald, in 719. The marriage was extremely controversial in the eyes of the Catholic Church and resulted in the church refusing to acknowledge Grimoald's rule.[citation needed] During Charles Martel's invasions of Bavaria in 725 and 729, Grimoald was killed and Pilithrude was brought to Frankland, where she may have died in poverty.[2]

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  1. ^ Bosl E. Grimoald (Crimolt) // Bosl’s Bayerische Biographie. — Regensburg: Verlag Friedrich Pustet, 1983. — Bd. 1. — S. 275. — ISBN 3-7917-0792-2.
  2. ^ Mann, Horace Kinder (1903). The lives of the popes in the early middle ages. Vol. 1. London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. p. 154.