Waifer of Aquitaine

Deceased Person

– 0768

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Who was Waifer of Aquitaine?

Waifer was the last independent Duke of Aquitaine from 744 or 745 to 768, succeeding his father, Hunold, after the latter entered a monastery. He inherited from his father the conflict with the Franks, who were nominally his suzerains.

Not much is known of him for the first decade after accession to office, but there was a general standoff in the confrontation with the Frankish Pepin the Short. Circa 754, we find Waifer attacking Pepin on his siege of Narbonne with an army of Basques. After conquering Narbonne in 759, Pepin the Short, the King of the Franks, turned his attention towards Aquitaine, which his father had subjected to his authority in 742, after decades of royal neglect. In 760, Pepin ordered Waifer to return some political refugees who had taken shelter at his court, and also to return some lands claimed by the Church. The duke refused. The Frankish king in turn marched against him, ravaging the land of Berry and the Auvergne. Two counts of the contumacious Aquitanian Duke retaliated by rampaging through Burgundy and prompting Pepin to come south again in 761. He took Clermont and Auvergne in that year and, in the following years, Berry and Bourges.

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