{{Unreferenced, date=December 2009
:''The article is about the historical figure. For the Japanese magazine, see
Gunzo {{Unreferenced, date=December 2009
:''The article is about the historical figure. For the Japanese magazine, see Gunzo''.
Gunzo (also ''Cunzo'') was a 7th-century duke of the Alamanni under Frankish sovereignty. His residence was at ''villa Iburni ...
''.
Gunzo (also ''Cunzo'') was a 7th-century duke of the
Alamanni
The Alemanni or Alamanni, were a confederation of Germanic tribes
*
*
*
on the Upper Rhine River. First mentioned by Cassius Dio in the context of the campaign of Caracalla of 213, the Alemanni captured the in 260, and later expanded into pre ...
under
Frankish sovereignty. His residence was at ''villa Iburninga'' (today's
Überlingen) at
Lake Constance
Lake Constance (german: Bodensee, ) refers to three bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, called the Lak ...
. Gunzo was the father of
Fridiburga, who was engaged to Frankish king
Sigibert II :''See Sigeberht II of Essex for the Saxon ruler by that name.''
Sigebert II (601–613) or Sigisbert II, was the illegitimate son of Theuderic II, from whom he inherited the kingdoms of Burgundy and Austrasia in 613. However, he fell under the in ...
(who was murdered in 613).
Gunzo organized a synod in
Konstanz
Konstanz (, , locally: ; also written as Constance in English) is a university city with approximately 83,000 inhabitants located at the western end of Lake Constance in the south of Germany. The city houses the University of Konstanz and was t ...
in 635, which resulted in the election of deacon
John of Grab
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
as bishop of Constance, succeeding the deceased bishop Gaudentius. This event is the earliest certain attestation of Constance as an independent bishopric.
It is disputed whether Gunzo ruled over all of
Alemannia, or only over the eastern part. If the former is the case, he is to be identified either with
Gundoin, the founder of the
Moutier-Grandval
Moutier-Grandval Abbey was a Benedictine abbey near the villages of Moutier and Grandval in today's Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It was founded around 640, when Grandval already existed; Moutier gre ...
monastery, or with the predecessor of the latter, duke
Uncilin.
Alemannic rulers
7th-century rulers in Europe