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search  Genial, Genialis, or Genealis was the Duke of Gascony
(Vasconia) in the early seventh century. He is attested in the
Chronicle of Fredegar.  Genial was probably a Frank or a Gallo-
Roman when Theuderic II and Theudebert II appointed him dux over
the Basques (Vascones) of southwestern Aquitaine:  Theudebert
and Theuderic sent an army against the Wascones and with God's
help defeated them, subjected them to their overlordship, and
made them pay tribute. They appointed a duke named Genialis, who
ruled them well.[1]  Some scholars believe Genial was more of a
tribal leader over whom the Frankish sovereigns exercised a
vague suzerainty than a Frankish court official sent to the
outskirts of the realm to lord it over a subject people.[2]
Sometime around 612, Sisebut, king of the Visigoths, reconquered
the trans-Pyrenean portion of his realm, diminishing Frankish
suzerainty in Vasconia.[3] Genial was succeeded by Aeghyna.
1. ^ Fredegar, 4.21, p 14