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campaign to depict Tassilo as an oath-breaker and someone unprepared to carry out the main function of his office, to fight, which would make him unfit for rule. Stuart Airlie has argued that the reason why Charlemagne removed Tassilo from power was the greater power he had in the duchy of Bavaria and the greater independency he displayed, Airlie compares the duchy of Bavaria was similar to Aquitaine in the independent nature and threat to Carolingian rule.
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for that year are particularly scathing of him, saying that he "brushed aside his oaths and all his promises and sneaked away on a wicked pretext". Working on the premise that the annals may have been revised to emphasise Tassilo as a vassal, Roper Pearson suggests that to be the beginning of a
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The incident was the linchpin in Charlemagne and Pope Adrian's argument that Tassilo was not an independent prince but a rebellious vassal, deserving punishment. The punishment was carried out, after much political maneuvering, during a diet in the
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on grounds of ill health way back in 763. Roper Pearson suggests that he left because he felt an obligation to the Aquitanians in light of an earlier alliance, made between Tassilo's father and the Aquitanian duke
210:. He formally handed over to the king all of the rights that he had held. Tassilo died reportedly on the 11th of December in 796 at Lorsch Abbey in which he had been banished to by Charlemagne. 115:. There, he is reported to have sworn numerous oaths to Pepin and, according to reports that may have been written much later, promised fealty to him and his sons, 165:
in Rome on May 19. In 773, Tassilo sent an embassy to the pope, but it was blocked by Charles, who was suspicious of the duke's alliances with
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had tried to seize the duchy for himself. Pepin removed Grifo and installed the young Tassilo as duke, but under Frankish overlordship in 749.
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In 788 Tassilo was accused by the Franks of defaulting on his military obligations to Pepin, leaving the Frankish campaign in
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in 788, when Tassilo was finally deposed and then entered a monastery. In 794, Tassilo was again compelled, at the
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during his conflict with Pepin in 743. Whatever the motivations behind Tassilo's abandonment of the campaign, the
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According to legend, Tassilo discovered the body of his son, Gunther, who had been attacked by a wild
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during a hunt. In grief, he founded the monastery on the site in 777.
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A lost chronicle of Tassilo's reign was kept by his chancellor,
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Tassilo nevertheless undertook such kingly duties as founding
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incorporated some of its material into his Bavarian history.
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Index

Tassilo III

Tassilo Chalice
duke of Bavaria
Agilolfings
Duke Odilo of Bavaria
Hitrud
Charles Martel
Frankish
Carolingian
Mayor of the Palace
Pepin the Short
king
Odilo of Bavaria
Grifo
Royal Frankish Annals
vassal
Compiegne
Charles
Carloman
Liutperga
Lombard
Desiderius
Gars Abbey
Inn River
Bolzano
Innichen Abbey
Kremsmünster Abbey
Pope Adrian I
Saxons

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