Duke Tedbald of Spoleto defeats Byzantine forces and lays siege to their castles, captures many of their soldiers and castrates them before releasing them.
Perpetrator (Person) :
Tedbald, Duke of Spoleto Origin: Frankish Gender: Male, Age: adult, Activity: monarch/ruler, Reaction: joking/jesting, Direct Consequence: victory
Tedbaldus etiam heros quidam, proxima Hugoni regi affinitate coniunctus, Camerinorum et Spoletinorum marchio erat. Hic in auxilium Beneventani principis contra Grecos, qui cum graviter obpresserant, abiit. Quibus cum bellum inferret, victoria est potitus. Contigit denique multos Grecorum iamiam non arva, sed castra obtinentium hunc cepisse. Quibus dum virilia amputaret, talia stratigo, qui eis praeerat, nuntiavit : 'Quoniam quidem vestro saneto imperatori spadonibus nil pretiosius esse cognovi, hos studui pauculos sibi verecunde transmittere, plures quantoeius Deo propitio transmissurus'.
Translation :
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Edition :
Liudprandi Liber Antapodoseos, In: A. Bauer; R. Rau, Quellen zur Geschichte der sächsischen Kaiserzeit (FSGA 8), 5th Ed. Darmstadt 2002, 244-495.
Remark :
long-term consequence: Liutprand relates a story of a woman attempting to save her husband from castration, described in: "A woman tears up her face with her nails and cries to get Duke Tedbald of Spoleto's attention, then uses cunning and jokes to convince him and his men to release her captured husband and their animals, saving the former from castration."
