Aldgisl

Aldgisl, also written Aldegisel, Aldegisl or Eadgils, was a ruler of Frisia in the late seventh century and is regarded as the first historically verifiable ruler of the Frisians. Sources disagree on his title: Frankish writers tend to call Frisian rulers dukes, while other sources often call them kings. Almost everything known about him comes from the account of the exiled Northumbrian bishop Wilfrid, who landed in Frisia in 678 on his way to Rome and was received warmly and hosted through the winter, probably at Utrecht. The biography of Wilfrid by Stephen of Ripon says Aldgisl tore up and burned a letter in which the Frankish mayor of the palace Ebroin offered gold for Wilfrid, which some scholars read as defiance of Frankish domination. His successor, and possibly his son, was Radbod.