Tassilo
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Tassilo – also spelled Thassilo – is a male name of westgerman origin. It is the diminutive form of the name Tasso/Tazzo.
Tasso/Tazzo itself is the diminutive form of Taginbert, which is of westgerman origin and means "glittering as the day". The components of Taginbert are the celtic word dago (good) and the Old High German
word beraht (glittering).
Tassilo may refer to:
Tasso/Tazzo itself is the diminutive form of Taginbert, which is of westgerman origin and means "glittering as the day". The components of Taginbert are the celtic word dago (good) and the Old High German
Old High German
The term Old High German refers to the earliest stage of the German language and it conventionally covers the period from around 500 to 1050. Coherent written texts do not appear until the second half of the 8th century, and some treat the period before 750 as 'prehistoric' and date the start of...
word beraht (glittering).
Tassilo may refer to:
- Tassilo I of BavariaTassilo I of BavariaTassilo I was King of Bavaria from 591 to his death. According to Paul the Deacon, he was appointed as Bavarian rex by Childebert II, Frankish king of Austrasia, in 591, ending the war with the Franks. The war began during the reign of Tassilo's predecessor, Garibald I, when Garibald concluded a...
(died c. 610) - Tassilo II of BavariaTassilo II of BavariaTassilo II was a ruler in southern Germany.He was the son, probably third, of Theodo of Bavaria and Folchaid. Sometime before 715, Theodo divided his duchy and associated with its rule the eldest two of his four sons. The eldest, Theodbert, was co-ruling as early as 702 and the second, Theobald,...
(died c. 719) - Tassilo III of BavariaTassilo III of BavariaTassilo III was duke of Bavaria from 748 to 788, the last of the house of the Agilolfings.Tassilo, then still an infant, began his rule as a Frankish ward under the tutelage of the Merovingian Mayor of the Palace Pepin the Short after Tassilo's father, Duke Odilo of Bavaria, had died in 747 and...
(died c. 796) - Tassilone (1709), an opera by Agostino SteffaniAgostino SteffaniAgostino Steffani was an Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer.-Biography:Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto. At a very early age he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice...
(1653–1728) - Tassilo von Heydebrand und der LasaTassilo von Heydebrand und der LasaTassilo, Baron von Heydebrand und der Lasa was an important German chess master, chess historian and theoretician of the nineteenth century, a member of the Berlin Chess Club and a founder of the Berlin Chess School .His...
(1818–1899), German chess-master - Tassilo Thierbach (born 1957), German figure-skater
- Prince Tassilo of Bulgaria (born 2002), grandson of would-be Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria