Chucus

Chucus (sometimes anglicized "Hugh") was the mayor of the palace of Austrasia from 617 to 623. He was the predecessor to Pepin of Landen and father of Hugobert.

He is mentioned in the will of Saint Bertechramnus, written on 26 March 616, in which the bishop indicates that shortly before, the property of a certain Aureliana, wife of Dynamus, bishop of Avignon(604-625), had been shared by King Clotaire II between the mayors of the palace, Gonland and Chucus. Hugues is also mentioned in the chronicle of Fredegar:

" The thirty-fourth year of the reign of Clotaire [617] , King Agon sent to this prince three noble Lombard deputies, Agiulf, Pompège and Gauton, to beg him to return to his nation the twelve thousand sous of gold that he paid every year to the Franks; and with address these deputies secretly gave three thousand sous of gold, of which a thousand to Warnachaire, a thousand to Gondeland, and a thousand to Chuc; they offered at the same time to Clotaire thirty-six thousand gold sous. The king remitted the tribute to the Lombards, and united with them by oath of an eternal friendship. "

No document mentions that he had children, but several later aristocrats have the given name of Hugues or derivatives of Hugues, and are considered as descendants.

Among them, there is the Hugobert, a seneschal. The difficulty is that Hugobert is a Neustrian while Hugues is an Austrasian, but Christian Settipani notices that Hugobert has a daughter named Ragentrude, mother of Hugobert, Duke of Bavaria and assumes that the seneschal could be Waldebert's son.

References

• Settipani, Christian (1989). Les ancêtres de Charlemagne. Paris, France: Editions Christian. p. 170. ISBN 2-906483-28-1. OCLC 28323789.
• Settipani, Christian (2014). Les ancêtres de Charlemagne : les 2048 quartiers du premier empereur franc. Occasional Publications / 16 (Deuxième édition, revue et corrigée ed.). [Oxford?]: P & G, Prosopographia et Genealogica. p. 347. ISBN 978-1-900934-15-2. OCLC 908405951.