Merovingian Dukes and Patricians
During the period of the Merovingian dynasty in Gaul, Provence was a province ruled by duces (dukes), military leaders and district commanders who served as defenders of the frontiers of the kingdom and ruled over vast territories as opposed to the comites (counts), who ruled the cities and their environs. Provence was usually a part of the division of the Frankish realm known as Kingdom of Burgundy, which was treated as its own kingdom. Their title sometimes appears as rector Provinciae.
This is an incomplete list of the known Merovingian-appointed dukes of Provence.
- Gondulf (fl. c. 491)
- Liberius (until 534), Ostrogothic appointee
- Bodegisel (fl. c. 566)
- Adovarius (561–569)
- Lupus (569–570)
- Jovin (570–573)
- Albin (573–575)
- Dinamius (from 575)
- Leudegisel (fl. c. 585), of Burgundian Provence
- Nicetas (from 587)
- Babo (fl. c. 600)
- Aegyla (fl. c. 602)
- Bado (634–641)
- Willibad (641–643), of Burgundian Provence
- Hector (fl. c. 679)
- Nemfidius (fl. c. 700)
- Antenor (fl. c. 697)
- Metrannus (fl. c. 700)
- Maurontus (c. 720 – 739)
- Abbo (fl. c. 739)
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