Audulf
Sign in to saveAudulf () was a Frisian active , just after the Great Migration Period. He is not mentioned by any historians of the era but several gold coins have been found inscribed with his name, leading to debate as to whether he was a petty king in Frisiathe former lands of the Frisii on the coastline of the northern Netherlands and northwestern Germanyor simply a Frisian moneyer, probably in the employ of the Merovingian Franks.
Person
- Born
- 0600-00-00
- Died
- 0630-00-00
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Key dates
- Born
- 600
- Died
- 630
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Audulf () was a Frisian active , just after the Great Migration Period. He is not mentioned by any historians of the era but several gold coins have been found inscribed with his name, leading to debate as to whether he was a petty king in Frisiathe former lands of the Frisii on the coastline of the northern Netherlands and northwestern Germanyor simply a Frisian moneyer, probably in the employ of the Merovingian Franks.
==Name== The name appears to be an Old Dutch form of the Germanic names related to Adolf, various compounds ultimately derived from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz ("noble") and *wulfaz ("wolf"). It appears in some sources as Adulf () and Aldulf, chiefly as a result of mistaken engravings of his coins and their mistaken attribution to Ealdwulf, king of East Anglia.