Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria (741-96) (litho)

Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria, (born about 741, d. 796), on the site of the monastery Kremsmuenster. At the Council of Frankfurt in 794 was the final deposition of Tassilo III, the last Agilolfing Duke of Bavaria. The Duke had refused to aid the Frankish king Pippin the Younger in his campaign in Aquitaine in 763 and had thereby broken his allegiance and at the Hoftag in Ingelheim am Rhein in 788, Tassilo was sentenced to death for these crimes - later commuted to withdrawal to a monastery. He was required to attend the Council of 794 in order to perform atonement once more to Charlemagene. Tassilo renounced all right to rule and all his property and was sent back to the monastery, where he died in 796.