Family tree Homs » Chilpéric "King of Burgundy" des Soissons I (± 523-± 584)

Personal data Chilpéric "King of Burgundy" des Soissons I 

• Alternative names: King Chilperic I of the Franks, Chilperic, Chilperic King de Burgundy
• Nickname is King of Burgundy.
• He was born about 523 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France.
• He was christened.
• Occupations:
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  {geni:job_title} Koning van het Frankische deelrijk met als hoofdstad Soissons (10-11-561 tot 09-584); koning van Neustrië (567).<

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  {geni:job_title} Roi de Soissons et de Neustrie (561-584)

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  {geni:job_title} Roi, de Neustrie, 561, de Soissons, Roi, de Paris, 568

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  {geni:job_title} Unknown GEDCOM info: Konge 561 - 84 Unknown GEDCOM info: 0

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  {geni:job_title} Konge av Frankrike

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  {geni:job_title} Konge av Borgund

• in King of Burgundy.
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  {geni:job_title} Konge

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  {geni:job_title} Roi, des Burgondes, de Lyon

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  {geni:job_title} Unknown GEDCOM info: Konge 466 - 76 Unknown GEDCOM info: 0

• in King of Soissons.
• He died about October 584 in St Vincent Abbey, Paris, Ile-de-France, France.
• He is buried about 584 in St. Vincent's, Church, Paris, France.
• A child of Chlothar «le Vieux» de Cologne and Arégonde des Francs
• This information was last updated on May 7, 2012.

Household of Chilpéric "King of Burgundy" des Soissons I

He is married to Frédégonde d'Ardennes.

They got married about 568 at France.

Child(ren):

1. Chlothar "le Jeune" of the Franks  ± 584-± 630 

Notes about Chilpéric "King of Burgundy" des Soissons I

Name Suffix: I, King Of Soissons Name Suffix: I [De La Pole.FTW]

Source: "The Franks" by Edward James. Franks: Had unknown first wife, thenFredegund, who was set aside so he could marry Galswinth (Brunhild's sister).Shortly after the marriage, the couple quarrelled over Fredegund and Galswinth was found strangled in bed. Chilperic then married Fredegund again. Chilperic was assassinated in 584 while hunting at Chelles, near Paris. As Chilpericwas dismounting from his horse, a man stepped forward and stabbed him. Othersources: RC 303; AF; "Women in the Wall" chart. RC: Chilperic I of Soissons, 561. "Women in the Wall" chart says the first wife was Audovera. Wall: Chilperic of Neustria, died 584.

Name Suffix: I [De La Pole.FTW]

Source:"The Franks" by Edward James. Franks: Had unknown first wife, then Fredegund,who was set aside so he could marry Galswinth (Brunhild's sister). Shortly after the marriage, the couple quarrelled over Fredegund and Galswinth was foundstrangled in bed. Chilperic then married Fredegund again. Chilperic was assassinated in 584 while hunting at Chelles, near Paris. As Chilperic was dismounting from his horse, a man stepped forward and stabbed him. Other sources: RC303; AF; "Women in the Wall" chart. RC: Chilperic I of Soissons, 561. "Womenin the Wall" chart says the first wife was Audovera. Wall: Chilperic of Neustria, died 584.

Name Suffix: I [De La Pole.FTW]

Source: "The Franks"by Edward James. Franks: Had unknown first wife, then Fredegund, who was setaside so he could marry Galswinth (Brunhild's sister). Shortly after the marriage, the couple quarrelled over Fredegund and Galswinth was found strangled inbed. Chilperic then married Fredegund again. Chilperic was assassinated in 584 while hunting at Chelles, near Paris. As Chilperic was dismounting from hishorse, a man stepped forward and stabbed him. Other sources: RC 303; AF; "Women in the Wall" chart. RC: Chilperic I of Soissons, 561. "Women in the Wall"chart says the first wife was Audovera. Wall: Chilperic of Neustria, died 584.

NSFX Roi de Neustria TYPE Book AUTH Stuart, Roderick W. PERI Royaltyfor Commoners EDTN 3d PUBL Genealogical Publishing co., Inc, Baltimore, MD (1998) ISB 0-8063-1561-X TEXT 303-49 ACED DATE 0539 DATE 19 MAY 2000

OCCUKing of Soissons

Name Suffix: I [De La Pole.FTW]

Source: "The Franks" by Edward James. Franks: Had unknown first wife, then Fredegund, who wasset aside so he could marry Galswinth (Brunhild's sister). Shortly after the marriage, the couple quarrelled over Fredegund and Galswinth was found strangled in bed. Chilperic then married Fredegund again. Chilperic was assassinatedin 584 while hunting at Chelles, near Paris. As Chilperic was dismounting fromhis horse, a man stepped forward and stabbed him. Other sources: RC 303; AF;"Women in the Wall" chart. RC: Chilperic I of Soissons, 561. "Women in the Wall" chart says the first wife was Audovera. Wall: Chilperic of Neustria, died584.

REFR DATE 0561 PLAC King of Soissons RETO DATE 0584 RELI Reign: 539- 584 OCCU King of SoissonsChilperic I(b. c. 539--d. September or October 584, Chelles, France),Merovingian king of Soissons whom Gregory of Tours, acontemporary, called the Nero and the Herod of his age.Son of Chlotar I by Aregund,Chilperic shared with his threehalf brothers (sons of Ingund, Aregund's sister)in thepartition that followed their father's death in 561, receivingthe poorest region, the kingdom of Soissons. To this was added,however, the best part ofCharibert's lands on the latter'sdeath in 567 or 568, so that Chilperic's kingdom corresponded inlarge part to that later known as Neustria. In 568 he repudiatedhis wives in order to marry Galswintha, sister of theVisigothic princess,Brunhild, who had herself recently marriedhis half brother, Sigebert I;but he soon had Galswinthamurdered and immediat

Name Prefix: King Name Suffix: Ii, Of Burgundy "Third son of Gundioc, King of the Burgundians. After succeeding his father with his three brothers, he was killed by his brother Gundobad, along with his wife, and his two daughters were driven into exile." ________________________________

Sources: RC 349; "The Franks" by Edward James; Kraentzler 1657, 1778, 1780, Pfafman. RC349 continues this line back another five generations, but with the warning that 1980 research does notcarry this line beyond Chilperic. Will add two moregenerations from Kraentzler line 1778, just so they won't get lost. K: Chilperic, King of Bourgogne. K-1657: Chilperich de Bourgogne, King of Geneve, laterof Lyon. Pfafman: Chilperic of (XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)@

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Third son of Gundioc, King of the Burgundians. After succeeding his father with his three brothers, he was killed by his brother Gundobad, along with his wife, and his two daughters were driven into exile.

Murdered by his brother, Gundobad

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King of Soissons 561-584
When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. Whenthe dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he wasdoing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and endedthis year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.
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King of Soissons 561-584
When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. Whenthe dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he wasdoing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and endedthis year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.
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King of Soissons 561-584
When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. Whenthe dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he wasdoing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and endedthis year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.

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Third son of Gundioc, King of the Burgundians. After succeeding his father with his three brothers, he was killed by his brother Gundobad, along with his wife, and his two daughters were driven into exile.

Murdered by his brother, Gundobad

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King of Soissons 561-584
When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. Whenthe dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he wasdoing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and endedthis year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.
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King of Soissons 561-584
When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. Whenthe dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he wasdoing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and endedthis year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.
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King of Soissons 561-584
When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. Whenthe dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he wasdoing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and endedthis year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.

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Third son of Gundioc, King of the Burgundians. After succeeding his father with his three brothers, he was killed by his brother Gundobad, along with his wife, and his two daughters were driven into exile.

Murdered by his brother, Gundobad

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King of Soissons 561-584
When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. Whenthe dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he wasdoing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and endedthis year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.
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King of Soissons 561-584
When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. Whenthe dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he wasdoing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and endedthis year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.
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King of Soissons 561-584
When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. Whenthe dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he wasdoing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and endedthis year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.

Source: Church of JC of the LDS "Ancestral File" CD-Rom database, ver 4.17.

Neustria: a Frankish kingdom to the west of neighboring Austrasia, later
becoming part of western France. Chilperic, a Merovingian king of Siossons
whom historian Gregory of Tours called the Nero and the Herod of his age,
was ambitious, brutal, and debauched, but had pretensions to being a man of
learning. He wrote poor poetry, ordered four letters added to the alphabet,
and regarded the church as a major rival to his wealth, treating the bishops
with contempt and displaying injustice & imposing high taxes on his subjects.

Chilperic I
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Chilperic I (c. 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I, sole king of the Franks, and Aregund.

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1 Life
2 Family
3 References
4 External link
5 See also

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Life

Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he endeavoured to take possession of the whole kingdom, seized the treasure amassed in the royal town of Berny and entered Paris. His brothers, however, compelled him to divide the kingdom with them, and Soissons, together with Amiens, Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne, Tournai, and Boulogne fell to Chilperic's share. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris, the second eldest brother Guntram received Burgundy with its capital at Orléans, and Sigebert received Austrasia. On the death of Charibert in 567, his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris.

Not long after his accession, however, he was at war with Sigebert, with whom he would long remain in a state of—at the very least—antipathy. Sigbert defeated him and marched to Soissons, where he defeated and imprisoned Chilperic's eldest son, Theudebert. The war flared in 567, at the death of Charibert. Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's new lands, but Sigbert defeated him. Chilperic later allied with Guntram against Sigebert (573), but Guntram changed sides and Chilperic again lost the war.

When Sigebert married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera, and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegund. He accordingly dismissed Fredegund, and married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. But he soon tired of his new partner, and one morning Galswintha was found strangled in her bed. A few days afterwards Chilperic married Fredegund.

This murder was the cause of more long and bloody wars, interspersed with truces, between Chilperic and Sigebert. In 575, Sigebert was assassinated by Fredegund at the very moment when he had Chilperic at his mercy. Chilperic then made war with the protector of Sigebert's wife and son, Guntram. Chilperic retrieved his position, took from Austrasia Tours and Poitiers and some places in Aquitaine, and fostered discord in the kingdom of the east during the minority of Childebert II.

He pretended to some literary culture, and was the author of some halting verse, taking for his model Sedulius. He even added letters to the Latin alphabet, and wished to have the manuscripts rewritten with the new characters. The wresting of Tours from Austrasia and the seizure of ecclesiastical property, and Chilperic's habit of appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics, all provoked the bitter hatred of Gregory of Tours, by whom Chilperic was stigmatized as the Nero and Herod of his time (History of the Franks book vi.46).

It was one day in September of 584, while returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles, that Chilperic was stabbed to death.

Chilperic may be regarded as the type of Merovingian sovereigns. He was exceedingly anxious to extend the royal authority. He was jealous of the royal treasury, levied numerous imposts, and his fiscal measures provoked a great sedition at Limoges in 579. When his daughter Rigunth was sent to the Visigoths as a bride for King Reccared, laden with wagonloads of showy gifts, the army that went with her lived rapaciously off the land as they travelled to Toledo. He wished to bring about the subjection of the church, and to this end sold bishoprics to the highest bidder, annulled the wills made in favour of the bishoprics and abbeys, and sought to impose upon his subjects a unique conception of the Trinity, as Gregory of Tours here relates:

At the same time king Chilperic wrote a little treatise to the effect that the holy Trinity should not be so called with reference to distinct persons but should merely have the meaning of God, saying that it was unseemly that god should be called a person like a man of flesh; affirming also that the Father is the same as Son and that the Holy Spirit also is the same as the Father and the Son. "Such," said he, "was the view of the prophets and patriarchs and such is the teaching the law itself has given." When he had had this read to me he said: "I want you and the other teachers of the church to hold this view." But I answered him: "Good king, abandon this belief; it is your duty to follow the doctrine which the other teachers of the church left to us after the time of the apostles, the teachings of Hilarius and Eusebius which you professed at baptism." [1]
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Family
Chilperic's first marriage was to Audovera. They had four children:

Theudebert, died in the war of 575
Merovech (d.578), married the widow Brunhilda and became his father's enemy
Clovis, assassinated by Fredegund in 580
Basina, nun, led a revolt in the abbey of Poitiers
His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children.

His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund produced four more legitimate offspring:

Samson, died young
Rigunth, betrothed to Reccared but never married
Theuderic, died young
Clotaire, his successor in Neustria, later sole king of the Franks
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References
Sérésia, L'Eglise el l'Etat sous les rois francs au VI siècle (Ghent, 1888).
Dahmus, Joseph Henry. Seven Medieval Queens. 1972.
This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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External link
History of the Franks: Books I-X At Medieval Sourcebook.
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See also
Franks (main history of Frankish kingdoms)
List of Frankish Kings
Merovingians
Merovingian Dynasty
Born: 539; Died: 584
Preceded by:
Clotaire I King of Soissons (Neustria)
561–584 Succeeded by:
Clotaire II

Burgundians
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The Burgundians or Burgundes were an East Germanic tribe which may have emigrated from mainland Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr (the Island of the Burgundians), and from here to mainland Europe. In the Thorsteins saga Víkingssonar, Veseti settled in an island or holm, which was called Borgund's holm, i.e. Bornholm. Alfred the Great's translation of Orosius uses the name Burgenda land. The poet and early mythologist Victor Rydberg (1828–1895), (Our Fathers' Godsaga) asserted from an early medieval source, Vita Sigismundi, that the Burgundians themselves retained oral traditions about their Scandinavian origin.

Contents [hide]
1 Early History
1.1 Tribal Origins
1.2 Religion
1.3 Early Relationship with the Romans
2 The Burgundian Kingdoms
2.1 The First Kingdom
2.2 The Second Kingdom
2.2.1 Aspirations to the Empire
2.2.2 Consolidation of the Kingdom
2.3 The Fall of the Second Kingdom
3 The Burgundian Laws
4 Origin of Burgundy
5 See also
6 Notes
7 References
8 External links

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Early History
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Tribal Origins
The Burgundians' tradition of Scandinavian origin finds support in place-name evidence and archaeological evidence (Stjerna) and many consider their tradition to be correct (e.g. Musset, p. 62). Possibly because Scandinavia was beyond the horizon of the earliest Roman sources, including Tacitus (who only mentions one Scandinavian tribe, the Suiones), they don't tell from where the Burgundians came, and the first Roman references place them east of the Rhine (inter alia, Ammianus Marcellinus, XVIII, 2, 15). Early Roman sources thought they were simply another East Germanic tribe.

Ca 300, the population of Bornholm (the island of the Burgundians) largely disappeared from the island. Most gravefields ceased to be used, and those that were still used had few burials (Stjerna, in Nerman 1925:176).

In the year 369, the Emperor Valentinian I enlisted their aid in his war against another Germanic tribe, the Alamanni (Ammianus, XXVIII, 5, 8-15). At this time, the Burgundians were possibly living in the Vistula basin, according to the mid-6th century historian of the Goths, Jordanes. Sometime after their war against the Alamanni, the Burgundians were beaten in battle by Fastida, king of the Gepids and were overwhelmed, almost annihilated.

Approximately four decades later, the Burgundians appear again. Following Stilicho’s withdrawal of troops to fight Alaric I the Visigoth in AD 406-408, the northern tribes crossed the Rhine and entered the Empire in the Völkerwanderung, or Germanic migrations. Among them were the Alans, Vandals, the Suevi, and possibly the Burgundians. The Burgundians migrated westwards and settled in the Rhine Valley.

There was, it seems at times a friendly relationship between the Huns and the Burgundians. It was a Hunnish custom for females to have their skull artificially elongated by tight binding of the skull when the child was an infant. Germanic graves are sometimes found with Hunnish ornaments but also with skulls of females that have been treated in this way; west of the Rhine only Burgundian graves contain a large number of such skulls. (Werner, 1953)

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Religion
Somewhere in the east the Burgundians had been converted to the Arian form of Christianity, which proved a source of suspicion and distrust between the Burgundians and the Catholic Western Roman Empire. Divisions were evidently healed or healing circa AD 500, however, as Gundobad, one of the last Burgundian kings, maintained a close personal friendship with Avitus, the Catholic bishop of Vienne. Moreover, Gundobad's son and successor, Sigismund, was himself a Catholic, and there is evidence that many of the Burgundian people had converted by this time as well, including several female members of the ruling family.

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Early Relationship with the Romans
Initially, the Burgundians seem to have had a stormy relationship with the Romans. They were used by the Empire to fend off other tribes, but also raided the border regions and expanded their influence when possible.

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The Burgundian Kingdoms
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The First Kingdom
In 411, the Burgundian king Gundahar or Gundicar set up a puppet emperor, Jovinus, in cooperation with Goar, king of the Alans. With the authority of the Gallic emperor that he controlled, Gundahar settled on the left (Roman) bank of the Rhine, between the river Lauter and the Nahe, seizing Worms, Speier, and Strasbourg. Apparently as part of a truce, the Emperor Honorius later officially "granted" them the land. (Prosper, a. 386)

Despite their new status as foederati, Burgundian raids into Roman Upper Gallia Belgica became intolerable and were ruthlessly brought to an end in 436, when the Roman general Aëtius called in Hun mercenaries who overwhelmed the Rhineland kingdom (with its capital at the old Celtic Roman settlement of Borbetomagus/Worms) in 437. Gundahar was killed in the fighting, reportedly along with the majority of the Burgundian tribe. (Prosper; Chronica Gallica 452; Hydatius; and Sidonius Apollinaris)

The destruction of Worms and the Burgundian kingdom by the Huns became the subject of heroic legends that were afterwards incorporated in the Nibelungenlied—on which Wagner based his Ring Cycle—where King Gunther (Gundahar) and Queen Brünhild hold their court at Worms, and Siegfried comes to woo Kriemhild. (In Old Norse sources the names are Gunnar, Brynhild, and Gudrún as normally rendered in English.) In fact, the Atli of the Nibelungenlied is based on Attila the Hun.

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The Second Kingdom
For reasons not cited in the sources, the Burgundians were granted foederati status a second time, and in 443 were resettled by Aëtius in the region of Sapaudia. (Chronica Gallica 452) Though Sapaudia does not correspond to any modern-day regiod, the Burgundians probably lived near Lugdenensis, known today as Lyon. (Wood 1994, Gregory II, 9) A new king Gundioc, or Gunderic, presumed to be Gundahar's son, appears to have reigned from his father's death. (Drew, p. 1) In all, eight Burgundian kings of the house of Gundahar ruled until the kingdom was overrun by the Franks in 534.

As allies of Rome in its last decades, the Burgundians fought alongside Aëtius and a confederation of Visigoths and others in the final defeat of Attila at the Battle of Chalons (also called "The Battle of the Catalaunian Fields") in 451. The alliance between Burgundians and Visigoths seems to have been strong, as Gundioc and his brother Chilperic I accompanied Theodoric II to Spain to fight the Sueves in 455. (Jordanes, Getica, 231)

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Aspirations to the Empire
Also in 455, an ambiguous reference infidoque tibi Burdundio ductu (Sidonius Apollinaris in Panegyr. Avit. 442.) implicates an unnamed treacherous Burgundian leader in the murder of the emperor Petronius Maximus in the chaos preceding the sack of Rome by the Vandals. The Patrician Ricimer is also blamed; this event marks the first indication of the link between the Burgundians and Ricimer, who was probably Gundioc's brother-in-law and Gundobad's uncle. (John Malalas, 374)

The Burgundians, apparently confident in their growing power, negotiated in 456 a territorial expansion and power sharing arrangement with the local Roman senators. (Marius of Avenches)

In 457, Ricimer overthrew another emperor, Avitus, raising Majorian to the throne. This new emperor proved unhelpful to Ricimer and the Burgundians. The year after his ascension, Majorian stripped the Burgundians of the lands they had acquired two years earlier. After showing further signs of independence, he was murdered by Ricimer in 461.

Ten years later, in 472, Ricimer–who was by now the son-in-law of the Western Emperor Anthemius–was plotting with Gundobad to kill his father-in-law; Gundobad beheaded the emperor (apparently personally). (Chronica Gallica 511; John of Antioch, fr. 209; Jordanes, Getica, 239) Ricimer then appointed Olybrius; both died, surprisingly of natural causes, within a few months. Gundobad seems then to have succeeded his uncle as Patrician and king-maker, and raised Glycerius to the throne. (Marius of Avenches; John of Antioch, fr. 209)

In 474, Burgundian influence over the empire seems to have ended. Glycerius was deposed in favor of Julius Nepos, and Gundobad returned to Burgundy, presumably at the death of his father Gundioc. At this time or shortly afterward, the Burgundian kingdom was divided between Gundobad and his brothers, Godigisel, Chilperic II, and Gundomar I. (Gregory, II, 28)

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Consolidation of the Kingdom
According to Gregory of Tours, the years following Gundobad's return to Burgundy saw a bloody consolidation of power. Gregory states that Gundobad murdered his brother Chilperic, drowning his wife and exiling their daughters (one of whom was to become the wife of Clovis the Frank, and was reputedly responsible for his conversion). (Gregory, II, 28)1 This is contested, by e.g. Bury, who points out problems in much of Gregory's chronology for the events.

C.500, when Gundobad and Clovis were at war, Gundobad appears to have been betrayed by his brother Godegisel, who joined the Franks; together Godegisel's and Clovis' forces "crushed the army of Gundobad." (Marius a. 500; Gregory, II, 32) Gundobad was temporarily holed up in Avignon, but was able to re-muster his army and sacked Vienne, where Godegisel and many of his followers were put to death. From this point, Gundobad appears to have been the sole king of Burgundy. (e.g., Gregory, II, 33) This would imply that his brother Gundomar was already dead, though there are no specific mentions of the event in the sources.

Either Gundobad and Clovis reconciled their differences, or Gundobad was forced into some sort of vassalage by Clovis' earlier victory, as the Burgundian king appears to have assisted the Franks in 507 in their victory over Alaric II the Visigoth.

During the upheaval, sometime between 483-501, Gundobad began to set forth the Lex Gundobada (see below), issuing roughly the first half, which drew upon the Lex Visigothorum. (Drew, p. 1) Following his consolidation of power, between 501 and his death in 516, Gundobad issued the second half of his law, which was more originally Burgundian.

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The Fall of the Second Kingdom
The Burgundians were extending their power over southeastern Gaul; that is, northern Italy, western Switzerland, and southeastern France. In 493 Clovis, king of the Franks, married the Burgundian princess Clotilda, daughter of Chilperic.

At first allies with Clovis' Franks against the Visigoths in the early 6th century, the Burgundians were eventually conquered by the Franks in 534 CE. The Burgundian kingdom was made part of the Merovingian kingdoms, and the Burgundians themselves were by and large absorbed as well.

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The Burgundian Laws
The Burgundians left three legal codes, among the earliest from any of the Germanic tribes.

The Liber Consitutionum sive Lex Gundobada (The Book of the Constitution following the Law of Gundobad), also known as the Lex Burgundionum, or more simply the Lex Gundobada or the Liber, was issued in several parts between 483 and 516, principally by Gundobad, but also by his son, Sigismund. (Drew, p. 6-7) It was a record of Burgundian customary law and is typical of the many Germanic law codes from this period. In particular, the Liber borrowed from the Lex Visigothorum (Drew, p. 6) and influenced the later Lex Ribuaria. (Rivers, p. 9) The Liber is one of the primary sources for contemporary Burgundian life, as well as the history of its kings.

Like many of the Germanic tribes, the Burgundians' legal traditions allowed the application of separate laws for separate ethnicities. Thus, in addition to the Lex Gundobada, Gundobad also issued (or codified) a set of laws for Roman subjects of the Burgundian kingdom, the Lex Romana Burgundionum (The Roman Law of the Burgundians).

In addition to the above codes, Gundobad's son Sigismund later published the Prima Constitutio.

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Origin of Burgundy
The name of the Burgundians has since remained connected to the area of modern France that still bears their name: see the later history of Burgundy. Between the 6th and 20th centuries, however, the boundaries and political connections of this area have changed frequently; none of those changes have had anything to do with the original Burgundians. The name Burgundians used here and generally used by English writers to refer to the Burgundes is a later formation and more precisely refers to the inhabitants of the territory of Burgundy which was named from the people called Burgundes. The descendants of the Burgundians today are found primarily among the French-speaking Swiss and neighbouring regions of France.

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See also
For later legends of the Burgundian kings, see Nibelung.

For a list of Kings of Burgundy, see King of Burgundy.

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Notes
Note 1: Gregory was somewhat of a Frankish apologist, and commonly discredits the enemies of Clovis by attributing to them some fairly shocking acts. As with Godegisel, he also commonly refers to the treachery of Clovis' allies, when in fact Clovis seems to have bought them off (e.g., in the case of the Ripuarians). Additionally, Gregory's chronology of the events surrounding Clovis and Gundobad has been questioned by Bury, Shanzer, and Wood, among others. As such, his contributions here should probably be taken with a grain of salt.

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References
Bury, J.B. The Invasion of Europe by the Barbarians. London: Macmillan and Co., 1928.
Dalton, O.M. The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1927.
Drew, Katherine Fischer. The Burgundian Code. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972.
Gordon, C.D. The Age of Attila. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1961.
Murray, Alexander Calder. From Roman to Merovingian Gaul. Broadview Press, 2000.
Musset, Lucien. The Germanic Invasions: The Making of Europe AD 400-600. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1975.
Nerman, Birger. Det svenska rikets uppkomst. Generalstabens litagrafiska anstalt: Stockholm. 1925.
Rivers, Theodore John. Laws of the Salian and Ripuarian Franks. New York: AMS Press, 1986.
Rolfe, J.C., trans, Ammianus Marcellinus. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1950.
Shanzer, Danuta. ‘Dating the Baptism of Clovis.’ In Early Medieval Europe, volume 7, pages 29-57. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1998.
Shanzer, D. and I. Wood. Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose. Translated with an Introduction and Notes. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2002.
Werner, J. (1953). "Beiträge sur Archäologie des Attila-Reiches", Die Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaft. Abhandlungen. N.F. XXXVIII A Philosophische-philologische und historische Klasse. Münche
Wood, Ian N. ‘Ethnicity and the Ethnogenesis of the Burgundians’. In Herwig Wolfram and Walter Pohl, editors, Typen der Ethnogenese unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Bayern, volume 1, pages 53–69. Vienna: Denkschriften der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1990.
Wood, Ian N. The Merovingian Kingdoms. Harlow, England: The Longman Group, 1994.
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External links
Table of the house of Gundahar/Gundicar, 411 - 534

Neustria: a Frankish kingdom to the west of neighboring Austrasia, later
becoming part of western France. Chilperic, a Merovingian king of Siossons
whom historian Gregory of Tours called the Nero and the Herod of his age,
was ambitious, brutal, and debauched, but had pretensions to being a man of
learning. He wrote poor poetry, ordered four letters added to the alphabet,
and regarded the church as a major rival to his wealth, treating the bishops
with contempt and displaying injustice & imposing high taxes on his subjects.

Neustria: a Frankish kingdom to the west of neighboring Austrasia, later
becoming part of western France. Chilperic, a Merovingian king of Siossons
whom historian Gregory of Tours called the Nero and the Herod of his age,
was ambitious, brutal, and debauched, but had pretensions to being a man of
learning. He wrote poor poetry, ordered four letters added to the alphabet,
and regarded the church as a major rival to his wealth, treating the bishops
with contempt and displaying injustice & imposing high taxes on his subjects.

Chilperic I
, d. 584, Frankish king of Neustria (561–84), son of Clotaire I. He feuded bitterly with his brother Sigebert I , who had inherited the E Frankish kingdom that came to be known as Austrasia. Their struggle became savage after Chilperic and his mistress and future wife, Fredegunde , murdered (567) Chilperic’s second wife, Galswintha; she was the sister of Sigebert’s wife, Brunhilda . In the wars between the two brothers, Sigebert overran Neustria before his death (575). Later, Chilperic was murdered, probably at the instigation of Brunhilda. The feud was inherited by Chilperic’s son and successor, Clotaire II .

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.

Neustria: a Frankish kingdom to the west of neighboring Austrasia, later
becoming part of western France. Chilperic, a Merovingian king of Siossons
whom historian Gregory of Tours called the Nero and the Herod of his age,
was ambitious, brutal, and debauched, but had pretensions to being a man of
learning. He wrote poor poetry, ordered four letters added to the alphabet,
and regarded the church as a major rival to his wealth, treating the bishops
with contempt and displaying injustice & imposing high taxes on his subjects.

He built lavish Roman-style amphitheaters at Paris and Soissons, and he was a dedicated and accomplished poet who took considerable pride in hiscraft. There are verbatim accounts of his discussions with ecclesiastical authorities that reflect an extraordinary subtlety, sophistication and learning.

Not to be confused with Chilperic I of Burgundy.

[Wikipedia, "Chilperic I", retrieved 4 Oct 07]
Chilperic I (c. 539 - September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I, sole king of the Franks, and Aregund.

Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he endeavoured to take possession of the whole kingdom, seized the treasure amassed in the royal town of Berny and entered Paris. His brothers, however, compelled him to divide the kingdom with them, and Soissons, together with Amiens, Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne, Tournai, and Boulogne fell to Chilperic's share. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris, the second eldest brother Guntram received Burgundy with its capital at Orléans, and Sigebert received Austrasia. On the death of Charibert in 567, his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris.

Not long after his accession, however, he was at war with Sigebert, with whom he would long remain in a state of?at the very least?antipathy. Sigebert defeated him and marched to Soissons, where he defeated and imprisoned Chilperic's eldest son, Theudebert. The war flared in 567, at the death of Charibert. Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's new lands, but Sigbert defeated him. Chilperic later allied with Guntram against Sigebert (573), but Guntram changed sides and Chilperic again lost the war.

When Sigebert married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera, and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegund. He accordingly dismissed Fredegund, and married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. But he soon tired of his new partner, and one morning Galswintha was found strangled in her bed. A few days afterwards Chilperic married Fredegund.

This murder was the cause of more long and bloody wars, interspersed with truces, between Chilperic and Sigebert. In 575, Sigebert was assassinated by Fredegund at the very moment when he had Chilperic at his mercy. Chilperic then made war with the protector of Sigebert's wife and son, Guntram. Chilperic retrieved his position, took from Austrasia Tours and Poitiers and some places in Aquitaine, and fostered discord in the kingdom of the east during the minority of Childebert II.

In 578, Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch of the Vannetais along the Vilaine. The Frankish army consisted of units from the Poitou, Touraine, Anjou, Maine, and Bayeux. The Baiocassenses (men from Bayeux) were Saxons and they in particular were routed by the Bretons.[1] The armies fought for three days before Waroch submitted, did homage for Vannes, sent his son as a hostage, and agreed to pay an annual tribute. He subsequently broke his oath, but Chilperic's dominion over the Bretons was relatively secure, as evidence by Venantius Fortunatus celebration of it in a poem.

He pretended to some literary culture, and was the author of some halting verse, taking for his model Sedulius. He even added letters to the Latin alphabet, and wished to have the manuscripts rewritten with the new characters. The wresting of Tours from Austrasia and the seizure of ecclesiastical property, and Chilperic's habit of appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics, all provoked the bitter hatred of Gregory of Tours, by whom Chilperic was stigmatized as the Nero and Herod of his time (History of the Franks book vi.46).

It was one day in September of 584, while returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles, that Chilperic was stabbed to death.

Chilperic may be regarded as the type of Merovingian sovereigns. He was exceedingly anxious to extend the royal authority. He was jealous of the royal treasury, levied numerous imposts, and his fiscal measures provoked a great sedition at Limoges in 579. When his daughter Rigunth was sent to the Visigoths as a bride for King Reccared, laden with wagonloads of showy gifts, the army that went with her lived rapaciously off the land as they travelled to Toledo. He wished to bring about the subjection of the church, and to this end sold bishoprics to the highest bidder, annulled the wills made in favour of the bishoprics and abbeys, and sought to impose upon his subjects a unique conception of the Trinity, as Gregory of Tours here relates:

At the same time king Chilperic wrote a little treatise to the effect that the holy Trinity should not be so called with reference to distinct persons but should merely have the meaning of God, saying that it was unseemly that god should be called a person like a man of flesh; affirming also that the Father is the same as Son and that the Holy Spirit also is the same as the Father and the Son. "Such," said he, "was the view of the prophets and patriarchs and such is the teaching the law itself has given." When he had had this read to me he said: "I want you and the other teachers of the church to hold this view." But I answered him: "Good king, abandon this belief; it is your duty to follow the doctrine which the other teachers of the church left to us after the time of the apostles, the teachings of Hilarius and Eusebius which you professed at baptism."

[Wikipedia, "Chilperic II of Burgundy", retrieved 4 Oct 07]
Chilperic II (c. 450 - 493) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon. They were all sons of Gundioch. Sometime in the early 470s Chilperic forced to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire by the magister militum Ecdicius Avitus. In 475 he probably sheltered a fleeing Ecdicius after the Visigoths invaded the Auvergne. After his brother Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he turned on Chilperic. In 493 he drowned his wife Caretena and assassinated him, exiling his two daughters, Chroma, who became a nun, and Clotilda, who fled to her uncle Godegisel. When the Frankish king Clovis I requested the latter's hand in marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline, but Clovis and Godegisel allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn out civil war.

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OCCUPATION: Prince of Paris

Married 2. Galswintha Fredegund

Chilperic I (c. 539–September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I, sole king of the Franks, and Aregund.

Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he endeavoured to take possession of the whole kingdom, seized the treasure amassed in the royal town of Berny and entered Paris. His brothers, however, compelled him to divide the kingdom with them, and Soissons, together with Amiens, Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne, Tournai, and Boulogne fell to Chilperic's share. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris, the second eldest brother Guntram received Burgundy with its capital at Orléans, and Sigebert received Austrasia. On the death of Charibert in 567, his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris.

Not long after his accession, however, he was at war with Sigebert, with whom he would long remain in a state of—at the very least—antipathy. Sigbert defeated him and marched to Soissons, where he defeated and imprisoned Chilperic's eldest son, Theudebert. The war flared in 567, at the death of Charibert. Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's new lands, but Sigbert defeated him. Chilperic later allied with Guntram against Sigebert (573), but Guntram changed sides and Chilperic again lost the war.

When Sigebert married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera, and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegund. He accordingly dismissed Fredegund, and married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. But he soon tired of his new partner, and one morning Galswintha was found strangled in her bed. A few days afterwards Chilperic married Fredegund.

This murder was the cause of more long and bloody wars, interspersed with truces, between Chilperic and Sigebert. In 575, Sigebert was assassinated by Fredegund at the very moment when he had Chilperic at his mercy. Chilperic then made war with the protector of Sigebert's wife and son, Guntram. Chilperic retrieved his position, took from Austrasia Tours and Poitiers and some places in Aquitaine, and fostered discord in the kingdom of the east during the minority of Childebert II.

He pretended to some literary culture, and was the author of some halting verse, taking for his model Sedulius. He even added letters to the Latin alphabet, and wished to have the manuscripts rewritten with the new characters. The wresting of Tours from Austrasia and the seizure of ecclesiastical property, and Chilperic's habit of appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics, all provoked the bitter hatred of Gregory of Tours, by whom Chilperic was stigmatized as the Nero and Herod of his time (History of the Franks book vi.46).

It was one day in September of 584, while returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles, that Chilperic was stabbed to death.

Chilperic may be regarded as the type of Merovingian sovereigns. He was exceedingly anxious to extend the royal authority. He was jealous of the royal treasury, levied numerous imposts, and his fiscal measures provoked a great sedition at Limoges in 579. When his daughter Rigunth was sent to the Visigoths as a bride for King Reccared, laden with wagonloads of showy gifts, the army that went with her lived rapaciously off the land as they travelled to Toledo. He wished to bring about the subjection of the church, and to this end sold bishoprics to the highest bidder, annulled the wills made in favour of the bishoprics and abbeys, and sought to impose upon his subjects a unique conception of the Trinity, as Gregory of Tours here relates:

At the same time king Chilperic wrote a little treatise to the effect that the holy Trinity should not be so called with reference to distinct persons but should merely have the meaning of God, saying that it was unseemly that god should be called a person like a man of flesh; affirming also that the Father is the same as Son and that the Holy Spirit also is the same as the Father and the Son. "Such," said he, "was the view of the prophets and patriarchs and such is the teaching the law itself has given." When he had had this read to me he said: "I want you and the other teachers of the church to hold this view." But I answered him: "Good king, abandon this belief; it is your duty to follow the doctrine which the other teachers of the church left to us after the time of the apostles, the teachings of Hilarius and Eusebius which you professed at baptism." [1]
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Family
Chilperic's first marriage was to Audovera. They had four children:
• Theudebert, died in the war of 575
• Merovech (d.578), married the widow Brunhilda and became his father's enemy
• Clovis, assassinated by Fredegund in 580
• Basina, nun, led a revolt in the abbey of Poitiers
His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children.
His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund produced four more legitimate offspring:
• Samson, died young
• Rigunth, betrothed to Reccared but never married
• Theuderic, died young
• Clotaire II, his successor in Neustria, later sole king of the Franks
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References
• Sérésia, L'Eglise el l'Etat sous les rois francs au VI siècle (Ghent, 1888).
• Dahmus, Joseph Henry. Seven Medieval Queens. 1972.
• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

[3459] AUREJAC.GED, Profession: de 0561 0584 Roi de Neustrie, Chilpric

"Holy Blood ... Holy Grail", Chilperic, 561-584 King of Soissons

or b 528

DUERINCK’S HISTORY OF THE FRANKS
Book IV
URL: http://www.duerinck.com/franks.html

These are my notes on "The History of the Franks" (Historiae Francorum) by Gregory of Tours (Georgius Florentius) as translated by Lewis Thorpe (1974)(deceased). Mr. Thorpe has his own extensive notes and index in the book. Be sure to see the onsite links toward the bottom for other Duerinck pages dealing with the Germanic tribes. In this translation of 6th century Latin of Saint Gregory of Tours, Lewis Thorpe consulted many sources, including Ormonde Maddock Dalton's first English translation which consisted of 2 volumes, the first volume being a long introduction with copious notes, and the second volume was the translation (Dalton's translation on my "wish list"). The History of the Franks is composed of 10 "books". References will be to the book, then the numbered "paragraph", such as II.35. The final books I took fewer notes, especially book VII (none).

IV.27. King Sigibert marries Brunhild, daughter of King Athanagild of Spain. Queen Brunhild later murdered by King Lothar II in 613 AD.
IV.28. King Chilperic married Brunhild's older sister Galswinth. Chilperic had many wives, including Fredegund. Galswinth was murdered by King Chilperic.
IV.38. Spain's ruler Athanagild dies in 567 AD. His brother Leuvigild now King of Spain. "Leuva" died next, so Leuvigild added Leuva's kingdom to his. When Leuvigild's wife died, he married Goiswinth, who just happened to be Brumhild's mother. Leuvigild had 2 sons by his first wife. One son, Hermangild, married Ingund, daughter of Sigibert. The other son, Recared, married Rigunth, the daughter of Chilperic. [actually, Rigunth and Recared never married according to translator Thorpe.]

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In his ability to generate spouses, Chilperic was no more elegant than his debauched brother Gontran. Audovere was Chilperic's first wife and bore him Merovee, [though some argue that he was Galwinthe's (Chilperic's second wife) son] Theodebert and Clovis, as well as a daughter, Hildeswinthe. Her servant, Fredegonde [whom Chilperic I immediately took as his concubine], may have been instrumental in her demise in her own drive to come to the throne. Note - between 561 and 584: Upon the death of his father Clotaire I, Chilperic I's share of the estate makes him King of Soissons and he reigns from 561 to 584. After the death of his brother, Caribert I in 567, Chilperic I gets Toulouse, as well as the largest part of the ecclesiastical provinces of Rouen and Tours, which gives him a wide access to the sea. Desiring to take revenge on his brother Sigebert I -- Chilperic could not swallow the loss of Galswinthe's dowry in 569 through the Andelot Accord -- Chilperic charges his son Clovis [born of his first union with Audovere] with the occupation of Tours and of Poitiers. Chilperic's other son, [also by Audovere] Theodebert defeats the Austrasian general Gondevald. The war between the brothers extends into 574 and 575 at which time the kingdom is invaded, and Chilperic is forced to take refuge in Tournai, and the Great Nobles [viri in lustres] abandon him. After Siegbert is murdered in 575, Chilperic and Fredegonde come out of Tournai. Chilperic piously burries his brother [whom he just had murdered] at Lambres, Chilperic I's reign was marked by many wars he waged against his brothers for the territories of the kingdom. He was assassinated. He was the King of Neustrie.
Married between 562 and 584: Galswinthe=Galswitha, daughter of Athanagild, King of Spain, Chilperic's second wife, and she may have been the mother of Merovee, herein ascribed to the first wife. She was to die by strangling in a plot originated by Fredegonde (Chilperic's third wife). This murder began a bloody feud between Fredegonde and Brunehaut (Galswinthe's sister). Married before 584: Fredegonde; First the servant of Audovere, then first wife of Chilperic, Fredegonde was beautiful and ambitious. She first had Chilperic I repudiate Audovere and lock her up in a monastery, where the unfortunate was murdered on the orders of Fredegonde after 15 years of solitary confinement. However, all did not go immediately well, for when Chilperic learned of the brilliant marriage of his younger brother, Sigebert to Brunehaut, he arranged to have Fredegonde relegated to her role as concubine and asked Athanagild for the hand of another of his daughter, the older sister of Brunehaut, named Galswinthe. He promised in turn that he would repudiate all his other spouses so as to be worthy of a wife of such royal blood. When Galswinthe arrived, she was greeted with honor and respect as she brought an extensively rich treasure as dowry with her. Fredegonde had Galswitha, second wife of Chilperic strangled and replaced her on the throne. This murder began the feud with Brunehaut, Galswinthe's sister.
She had her husband assassinated and had the Archbishop of Rouen (Pretexta) killed. She governed Neustrie in the name of her young son Clothaire II. Died: in 584 in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Champagne, France, Chilperic was assassinated, reportedly by a hired hand of Fredegonde as he was returning from a hunt in Chelles [Seine-et-Marne] . His body was shipped up the Marne and was buried in the Basilica de Saint-Vincent, near Paris [Saint-Germain-des-Pres].

Il fut décrit comme débauché, despotique, cruel et hostile à l'Eglise. Il était néanmoins cultivé puisqu'il composa des poésies latines. Son règne est marqué par l'opposition de sa femme Frédégonde avec Brunehaut et les nombreux assassinats qu'elle commandita.

[Ancestral Safari, Wm. G. Cook, Parke's Newsletter 1991 #3] : Chilperic
I, king of Soisons, father of Chlotaire.
[other source?] has this person as Clodius III. [Clyde Kesler, fidonet
21 Jun '92 quotes 'Descent from a Hundred Kings, by Davis]: as
Chilperic I, s/o Chlothaire I and first wife Radegonda.
[Ahnentafel by Philippe Houdry, from various sources, ver. 3 (Aug. 31,
1994) posted by Tom Camfield]: Childeric I, b. 536, m. 568, d. Sept.
584, King of Neustrie 561-84, King of Paris 568-84. Parents as
Clotaire I and Aregonde (Arnegondis).

[] all dates. [Ahnentafel by Philippe Houdry, from various sources, ver.
3 (Aug. 31, 1994) posted by Tom Camfield]: Chilperic II, Burgondes'
king.

mother Aregunda ?

poss. of Gunderic of Gundicus of Giolahaire of Godomar of

#Générale##Générale#Profession : Roi des Burgondes.

#Générale##Générale#Naissance : ou 523 (?)
Profession : Roi de Neustrie de 561 à 584 et de Paris de568 à 584

#Générale#Il est aussi connu sous le nom de Chilpéric d' Austrasie.
Il est aussi connu sous le nom de Chilpéric Ier Mérovingiens.
Il est aussi connu sous le nom de Roi Chilpéric Ier de Neustrie 1 .
Il est couronné roi de Soissons et de Neustrie en 0561.
Il fut assassiné en en 0584 dans la forêt de Chelles

inhumation : Paris - 75000 75 Fra

{geni:occupation} King of Neustria (or Soissons) from v.561 to his death., koning van Neustrië (of Soissons) vanaf 561, King of Neustria or Soissons, Rei da Neustria, king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death., Konge av Frankrike, Rei de Neustrie (561-584), Kin

{geni:about_me} Chilperic I (c. 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I, sole king of the Franks, and Aregund.

Chilperic I's first marriage was to Audovera. They had four children:

* Theudebert, died in the war of 575

* Merovech of Soissons (d.578), married the widow Brunhilda and became his father's enemy

* Clovis of Soissons, assassinated by Fredegund in 580

* Basina, nun, led a revolt in the abbey of Poitiers

His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children.

His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund produced four more legitimate offspring:

* Samson, died young

* Rigunth, betrothed to Reccared but never married

* Theuderic, died young

* Clotaire, his successor in Neustria, later sole king of the Franks

Sources

* Sérésia, L'Eglise el l'Etat sous les rois francs au VI siècle (Ghent, 1888).

* Dahmus, Joseph Henry. Seven Medieval Queens. 1972.

* This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilperik_I

Chilperik I (539 - september 584) was de koning van Neustrië (of Soissons) vanaf 561 tot zijn dood. Hij was de jongste zoon van Chlotarius I. Hij regeerde vanuit Soissons van 561 tot 584 over Picardië, Vlaanderen en Henegouwen. Van zijn broer Charibert I erfde hij Parijs en Normandië met de steden Maine, Anjou en Rennes. Heel dit gebied noemde men Neustrië. Daarenboven veroverde hij enkele steden in het zuiden (Toulouse, Bordeaux) en was de meest gewetenloze van de vier broers, waarvan hij halfbroer was. De grenzen van zijn rijk poogde hij voortdurend te verleggen. Samen met zijn zonen voerde hij oorlog tegen de legers van zijn broers.

Van zijn eerste vrouw Audovera kreeg hij vijf kinderen: Theodebert, Merovech, Clovis, Basina en Childeswindis. Hoewel hij ook met zijn bijzit Fredegonde leefde - zij was van lagere afkomst en tevens zijn boze geest - wou hij, zoals zijn broer Sigebert I, ook met een prinses trouwen. Het werd Galswintha, de oudere halfzus van Brunhilde van Austrasië. Toen deze zag dat haar man Fredegonde niet kon loslaten, wou zij haar man verlaten en naar haar vaderland Spanje terugkeren. De bruidsschat mocht hij behouden. Op een morgen vond men Galswintha gewurgd in bed. Wie was de dader? Volgens Brunhilde was het Fredegonde, en vanaf dat moment ontstond tussen beiden een onverzoenlijke haat, die ruim veertig jaar zou aanslepen.

De oudste zoon Theodebert sneuvelde in de strijd tegen het leger van Sigebert I. Merovech werd in Austrasië (575) om het leven gebracht. Twee zoontjes van Fredegonde waren reeds in de kinderjaren gestorven. Basina ging naar het klooster in Poitiers en was betrokken in de opstand der nonnen aldaar. Chilperik I, opgestookt door Fredegonde, liet Clovis gevangen nemen. Clovis werd zonder wapens en kleren aan Fredegondes trawanten overgeleverd, die hem met messteken om het leven brachten. Na Childeswindis doopsel verstootte Chilperik I zijn vrouw Audovera en trouwde met Fredegonde. Uit dit huwelijk werden vier jongens geboren die nog kind zijnde stierven. Hun dochter, Rigundis, werd door haar moeder vermoord na Chilperiks dood.

Chilperik werd na een jachtpartij met messteken omgebracht in hetzelfde jaar waarin zijn laatste zoon en erfgenaam, Chlotharius II, geboren werd (584).

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Chilperic I (c. 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I, sole king of the Franks, and Aregund.

Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he endeavoured to take possession of the whole kingdom, seized the treasure amassed in the royal town of Berny and entered Paris. His brothers, however, compelled him to divide the kingdom with them, and Soissons, together with Amiens, Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne, Tournai, and Boulogne fell to Chilperic's share. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris, the second eldest brother Guntram received Burgundy with its capital at Orléans, and Sigebert received Austrasia. On the death of Charibert in 567, his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris.

Not long after his accession, however, he was at war with Sigebert, with whom he would long remain in a state of—at the very least—antipathy. Sigebert defeated him and marched to Soissons, where he defeated and imprisoned Chilperic's eldest son, Theudebert. The war flared in 567, at the death of Charibert. Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's new lands, but Sigbert defeated him. Chilperic later allied with Guntram against Sigebert (573), but Guntram changed sides and Chilperic again lost the war.

When Sigebert married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera, and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegund. He accordingly dismissed Fredegund, and married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. But he soon tired of his new partner, and one morning Galswintha was found strangled in her bed. A few days afterwards Chilperic married Fredegund.

This murder was the cause of more long and bloody wars, interspersed with truces, between Chilperic and Sigebert. In 575, Sigebert was assassinated by Fredegund at the very moment when he had Chilperic at his mercy. Chilperic then made war with the protector of Sigebert's wife and son, Guntram. Chilperic retrieved his position, took from Austrasia Tours and Poitiers and some places in Aquitaine, and fostered discord in the kingdom of the east during the minority of Childebert II.

In 578, Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch of the Vannetais along the Vilaine. The Frankish army consisted of units from the Poitou, Touraine, Anjou, Maine, and Bayeux. The Baiocassenses (men from Bayeux) were Saxons and they in particular were routed by the Bretons.[1] The armies fought for three days before Waroch submitted, did homage for Vannes, sent his son as a hostage, and agreed to pay an annual tribute. He subsequently broke his oath, but Chilperic's dominion over the Bretons was relatively secure, as evidence by Venantius Fortunatus celebration of it in a poem.

He was detested by Gregory of Tours, who dubbed him as the Nero and Herod of his time (History of the Franks book vi.46): he had provoked Gregory's wrath by wresting Tours from Austrasia, seizing of ecclesiastical property, and appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics. His reign in Neustria also saw the introduction of the Byzantine punishment of eye-gouging. Yet, he was also a man of culture: he was a musician of some talent, and his verse (modeled on that of Sedulius) is well-regarded; he reformed the Germanic alphabet; and he worked to reduce the worst effects of Salic law upon women.

It was one day in September of 584, while returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles, that Chilperic was stabbed to death.

Chilperic may be regarded as the type of Merovingian sovereigns. He was exceedingly anxious to extend the royal authority. He was jealous of the royal treasury, levied numerous imposts, and his fiscal measures provoked a great sedition at Limoges in 579. When his daughter Rigunth was sent to the Visigoths as a bride for King Reccared, laden with wagonloads of showy gifts, the army that went with her lived rapaciously off the land as they travelled to Toledo. He wished to bring about the subjection of the church, and to this end sold bishoprics to the highest bidder, annulled the wills made in favour of the bishoprics and abbeys, and sought to impose upon his subjects a unique conception of the Trinity, as Gregory of Tours here relates:

At the same time king Chilperic wrote a little treatise to the effect that the holy Trinity should not be so called with reference to distinct persons but should merely have the meaning of God, saying that it was unseemly that god should be called a person like a man of flesh; affirming also that the Father is the same as Son and that the Holy Spirit also is the same as the Father and the Son. "Such," said he, "was the view of the prophets and patriarchs and such is the teaching the law itself has given." When he had had this read to me he said: "I want you and the other teachers of the church to hold this view." But I answered him: "Good king, abandon this belief; it is your duty to follow the doctrine which the other teachers of the church left to us after the time of the apostles, the teachings of Hilarius and Eusebius which you professed at baptism." [1]

Family

Chilperic's first marriage was to Audovera. They had four children:

* Theudebert, died in the war of 575

* Merovech (d.578), married the widow Brunhilda and became his father's enemy

* Clovis, assassinated by Fredegund in 580

* Basina, nun, led a revolt in the abbey of Poitiers

His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children.

His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund produced four more legitimate offspring:

* Samson, died young

* Rigunth, betrothed to Reccared but never married

* Theuderic, died young

* Clotaire, his successor in Neustria, later sole king of the Franks

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilperic_I

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Chilperic I (c. 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I, sole king of the Franks, and Aregund.

Chilperic I's first marriage was to Audovera. They had four children:

* Theudebert, died in the war of 575

* Merovech of Soissons (d.578), married the widow Brunhilda and became his father's enemy

* Clovis of Soissons, assassinated by Fredegund in 580

* Basina, nun, led a revolt in the abbey of Poitiers

Originally a servant, Fredegund became Chilperic's mistress after he had murdered his wife and queen, Galswintha (c. 568). But Galswintha's sister, Brunhilda, in revenge against Chilperic, began a feud which lasted more than 40 years.

His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children.

His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund produced four more legitimate offspring:

* Samson, died young

* Rigunth, betrothed to Reccared but never married

* Theuderic, died young

* Clotaire, his successor in Neustria, later sole king of the Franks

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Chilperic I

Main

Merovingian king

born c. 539

died , September or October 584, Chelles, France

Merovingian king of Soissons whom Gregory of Tours, a contemporary, called the Nero and the Herod of his age.

Son of Chlotar I by Aregund, Chilperic shared with his three half brothers (sons of Ingund, Aregund’s sister) in the partition that followed their father’s death in 561, receiving the poorest region, the kingdom of Soissons. To this was added, however, the best part of Charibert’s lands on the latter’s death in 567 or 568, so that Chilperic’s kingdom corresponded in large part to that later known as Neustria. In 568 he repudiated his wives in order to marry Galswintha, sister of the Visigothic princess, Brunhild, who had herself recently married his half brother, Sigebert I; but he soon had Galswintha murdered and immediately married Fredegund, an earlier mistress. The consequences of this crime constitute virtually the only clearly discernible thread in the tangled skein of Frankish history over the next four decades, as first Sigebert, whose relations with Chilperic had in fact been bad from the start, and then his descendants, incited by Brunhild, sought revenge for Galswintha’s murder upon the persons of Chilperic, Fredegund, and their family.

Saved from apparent disaster by the assassination of Sigebert I in 575, Chilperic was prevented from seizing the lands of the dead king’s young heir, Childebert II, by the action of Guntram, his third half brother and the king of Burgundy. Although Chilperic succeeded in forming an alliance with Childebert against Guntram by recognizing the young king as his heir (581), this was short-lived; in 583 Childebert and Guntram again came to terms. A year later Chilperic fell victim to an unknown assassin, leaving a four-month-old son, Chlotar II.

Ambitious, brutal, and debauched, Chilperic nevertheless had pretensions to being a man of learning; he wrote poor poetry, became involved in theological matters, and ordered four letters to be added to the alphabet. Regarding the church as a major rival to his wealth, he treated the bishops with hostility and contempt; at the same time, he had a reputation for injustice toward his subjects at large and imposed heavy taxes.

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Chilperico I (539-584). Rey de Neustria, hijo de Clotario I y Arnegonda en el 561 a la muerte de su padre Clotario I, rey de los francos, el cual divide el reino entre sus cuatro hijos.

Chilperico se apodera del tesoro de Soissons y ocupa París. Pero sus hermanos le obligan a respetar ea reparto.

Repudia a su primera esposa, Audovera.

En el 566, se casa con Galswinta, hija del rey visigodo Atanagildo y hermana de Brunegilda, esposa de Sigeberto I, su hermano, que había heredado Austrasia.

En el 567, Galswinta fue asesinada (estrangulada en su cama). Sigiberto decide vengar a su cuñada y es el comienzo de la guerra entre Neustria y Austrasia, que durará mucho tiempo. Fue continuada por sus descendientes.

Se casa con Fredegunda. Y el mismo año, la muerte de Cariberto I le hace ganar el reino de París. En 582 ordena el bautismo a todos los judíos que habitaban en su reino.

Batido por su hermano Sigeberto, debe su trono al asesinato de éste en el año 575.

En el 584, fue muerto durante una cacería. Su hijo Clotario II hereda el reino a la edad de cuatro meses, bajo la tutela de su madre Fredegunda y la protección de su tío Gontrán I, rey de Borgoña, que así recupera el reino de París.

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Chilperic I (c. 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I, sole king of the Franks, and Aregund.

Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he endeavoured to take possession of the whole kingdom, seized the treasure amassed in the royal town of Berny and entered Paris. His brothers, however, compelled him to divide the kingdom with them, and Soissons, together with Amiens, Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne, Tournai, and Boulogne fell to Chilperic's share. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris, the second eldest brother Guntram received Burgundy with its capital at Orléans, and Sigebert received Austrasia. On the death of Charibert in 567, his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris.

Not long after his accession, however, he was at war with Sigebert, with whom he would long remain in a state of—at the very least—antipathy. Sigebert defeated him and marched to Soissons, where he defeated and imprisoned Chilperic's eldest son, Theudebert. The war flared in 567, at the death of Charibert. Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's new lands, but Sigbert defeated him. Chilperic later allied with Guntram against Sigebert (573), but Guntram changed sides and Chilperic again lost the war.

When Sigebert married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera, and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegund. He accordingly dismissed Fredegund, and married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. But he soon tired of his new partner, and one morning Galswintha was found strangled in her bed. A few days afterwards Chilperic married Fredegund.

This murder was the cause of more long and bloody wars, interspersed with truces, between Chilperic and Sigebert. In 575, Sigebert was assassinated by Fredegund at the very moment when he had Chilperic at his mercy. Chilperic then made war with the protector of Sigebert's wife and son, Guntram. Chilperic retrieved his position, took from Austrasia Tours and Poitiers and some places in Aquitaine, and fostered discord in the kingdom of the east during the minority of Childebert II.

In 578, Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch of the Vannetais along the Vilaine. The Frankish army consisted of units from the Poitou, Touraine, Anjou, Maine, and Bayeux. The Baiocassenses (men from Bayeux) were Saxons and they in particular were routed by the Bretons.[1] The armies fought for three days before Waroch submitted, did homage for Vannes, sent his son as a hostage, and agreed to pay an annual tribute. He subsequently broke his oath, but Chilperic's dominion over the Bretons was relatively secure, as evidence by Venantius Fortunatus celebration of it in a poem.

He was detested by Gregory of Tours, who dubbed him as the Nero and Herod of his time (History of the Franks book vi.46): he had provoked Gregory's wrath by wresting Tours from Austrasia, seizing of ecclesiastical property, and appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics. His reign in Neustria also saw the introduction of the Byzantine punishment of eye-gouging. Yet, he was also a man of culture: he was a musician of some talent, and his verse (modeled on that of Sedulius) is well-regarded; he reformed the Germanic alphabet; and he worked to reduce the worst effects of Salic law upon women.

It was one day in September of 584, while returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles, that Chilperic was stabbed to death.

Chilperic may be regarded as the type of Merovingian sovereigns. He was exceedingly anxious to extend the royal authority. He was jealous of the royal treasury, levied numerous imposts, and his fiscal measures provoked a great sedition at Limoges in 579. When his daughter Rigunth was sent to the Visigoths as a bride for King Reccared, laden with wagonloads of showy gifts, the army that went with her lived rapaciously off the land as they travelled to Toledo. He wished to bring about the subjection of the church, and to this end sold bishoprics to the highest bidder, annulled the wills made in favour of the bishoprics and abbeys, and sought to impose upon his subjects a unique conception of the Trinity, as Gregory of Tours here relates:

At the same time king Chilperic wrote a little treatise to the effect that the holy Trinity should not be so called with reference to distinct persons but should merely have the meaning of God, saying that it was unseemly that god should be called a person like a man of flesh; affirming also that the Father is the same as Son and that the Holy Spirit also is the same as the Father and the Son. "Such," said he, "was the view of the prophets and patriarchs and such is the teaching the law itself has given." When he had had this read to me he said: "I want you and the other teachers of the church to hold this view." But I answered him: "Good king, abandon this belief; it is your duty to follow the doctrine which the other teachers of the church left to us after the time of the apostles, the teachings of Hilarius and Eusebius which you professed at baptism." [1]

Family

Chilperic's first marriage was to Audovera. They had four children:

Theudebert, died in the war of 575

Merovech (d.578), married the widow Brunhilda and became his father's enemy

Clovis, assassinated by Fredegund in 580

Basina, nun, led a revolt in the abbey of Poitiers

His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children.

His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund produced four more legitimate offspring:

Samson, died young

Rigunth, betrothed to Reccared but never married

Theuderic, died young

Clotaire, his successor in Neustria, later sole king of the Franks

References

^ Howorth, 309.

Sérésia, L'Eglise el l'Etat sous les rois francs au VI siècle (Ghent, 1888).

Dahmus, Joseph Henry. Seven Medieval Queens. 1972.

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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Chilperic I (c. 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I, sole king of the Franks, and Aregund.

Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he endeavoured to take possession of the whole kingdom, seized the treasure amassed in the royal town of Berny and entered Paris. His brothers, however, compelled him to divide the kingdom with them, and Soissons, together with Amiens, Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne, Tournai, and Boulogne fell to Chilperic's share. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris, the second eldest brother Guntram received Burgundy with its capital at Orléans, and Sigebert received Austrasia. On the death of Charibert in 567, his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris.

Not long after his accession, however, he was at war with Sigebert, with whom he would long remain in a state of—at the very least—antipathy. Sigebert defeated him and marched to Soissons, where he defeated and imprisoned Chilperic's eldest son, Theudebert. The war flared in 567, at the death of Charibert. Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's new lands, but Sigbert defeated him. Chilperic later allied with Guntram against Sigebert (573), but Guntram changed sides and Chilperic again lost the war.

When Sigebert married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera, and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegund. He accordingly dismissed Fredegund, and married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. But he soon tired of his new partner, and one morning Galswintha was found strangled in her bed. A few days afterwards Chilperic married Fredegund.

This murder was the cause of more long and bloody wars, interspersed with truces, between Chilperic and Sigebert. In 575, Sigebert was assassinated by Fredegund at the very moment when he had Chilperic at his mercy. Chilperic then made war with the protector of Sigebert's wife and son, Guntram. Chilperic retrieved his position, took from Austrasia Tours and Poitiers and some places in Aquitaine, and fostered discord in the kingdom of the east during the minority of Childebert II.

In 578, Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch of the Vannetais along the Vilaine. The Frankish army consisted of units from the Poitou, Touraine, Anjou, Maine, and Bayeux. The Baiocassenses (men from Bayeux) were Saxons and they in particular were routed by the Bretons.[1] The armies fought for three days before Waroch submitted, did homage for Vannes, sent his son as a hostage, and agreed to pay an annual tribute. He subsequently broke his oath, but Chilperic's dominion over the Bretons was relatively secure, as evidence by Venantius Fortunatus celebration of it in a poem.

He was detested by Gregory of Tours, who dubbed him as the Nero and Herod of his time (History of the Franks book VI.46): he had provoked Gregory's wrath by wresting Tours from Austrasia, seizing of ecclesiastical property, and appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics. His reign in Neustria also saw the introduction of the Byzantine punishment of eye-gouging. Yet, he was also a man of culture: he was a musician of some talent, and his verse (modeled on that of Sedulius) is well-regarded; he reformed the Germanic alphabet; and he worked to reduce the worst effects of Salic law upon women.

It was one day in September of 584, while returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles, that Chilperic was stabbed to death.

Chilperic may be regarded as the type of Merovingian sovereigns. He was exceedingly anxious to extend the royal authority. He was jealous of the royal treasury, levied numerous imposts, and his fiscal measures provoked a great sedition at Limoges in 579. When his daughter Rigunth was sent to the Visigoths as a bride for King Reccared, laden with wagonloads of showy gifts, the army that went with her lived rapaciously off the land as they travelled to Toledo. He wished to bring about the subjection of the church, and to this end sold bishoprics to the highest bidder, annulled the wills made in favour of the bishoprics and abbeys, and sought to impose upon his subjects a unique conception of the Trinity, as Gregory of Tours here relates:

At the same time king Chilperic wrote a little treatise to the effect that the holy Trinity should not be so called with reference to distinct persons but should merely have the meaning of God, saying that it was unseemly that god should be called a person like a man of flesh; affirming also that the Father is the same as Son and that the Holy Spirit also is the same as the Father and the Son. "Such," said he, "was the view of the prophets and patriarchs and such is the teaching the law itself has given." When he had had this read to me he said: "I want you and the other teachers of the church to hold this view." But I answered him: "Good king, abandon this belief; it is your duty to follow the doctrine which the other teachers of the church left to us after the time of the apostles, the teachings of Hilarius and Eusebius which you professed at baptism."

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Merovingisk kung i Soissons som Gregorius av Tours, en samtida, kallas Nero och Herodes sin ålder.

Son till Chlotar jag av Aregund delade Chilperik med sina tre halvbröder (söner Ingund, Aregund syster) på den partition som följde sin fars död 561, fick den fattigaste regionen, Konungariket Soissons. Till detta lades dock den bästa delen av Charibert s landar på dennes död 567 eller 568, så att Chilperik rike motsvarade till stor del som senare känt som Neustrien. I 568 han förkastat sin fruar för att gifta sig Galswinthia, syster till den visigotiske prinsessan,

Brunhilde, som hade själv gift nyligen sin halvbror, Sigibert jag, men han hade snart Galswinthia mördat och omedelbart gifta Fredegund, en tidigare älskarinna. Konsekvenserna av detta brott är praktiskt taget det enda klart urskiljbara tråd i trassliga nystan frankiska historia under de kommande fyra decennierna, i första Sigibert, vars förbindelser med Chilperik faktiskt hade dålig från början, och sedan hans efterkommande, uppeggade av Brunhilde försökte hämnd för Galswinthia mord på personer Chilperik, Fredegund, och deras familj.

Räddas från uppenbara katastrofen mordet på Sigibert jag i 575, var Chilperik

hindras från att ta till vara de länder de döda kungens yngre arvtagare, Childebert II, genom inverkan av Guntram, hans tredje halvbror och kungen av Burgund. Även Chilperik lyckats bilda en allians med Childebert mot Guntram genom att erkänna den unge kungen som sin arvinge (581) var detta kortlivade, i 583 Childebert och Guntram åter kom till villkor. Ett år senare Chilperik föll offer för en okänd lönnmördare, vilket ger en fyra månader gammal son, Chlotar II.

Ambitiös, brutal och sedeslösa hade Chilperik ändå anspråk på att vara man för lärande, han skrev dålig poesi, blev inblandad i teologiska frågor, och beställde fyra bokstäver som ska läggas till i alfabetet. När det gäller kyrkan som en stor rival till sin rikedom, behandlade han biskoparna med fientlighet och förakt, samtidigt hade han ett rykte om orättvisa mot sina undersåtar i stort och införde höga skatter.

För att nämna denna sida: "Chilperik I" Encyclopædia Britannica

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Name: Chilperic II of Burgundy
Prefix: King
Given Name: Chilperic II
Surname: of Burgundy
Sex: M
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Change Date: 20 Aug 2004
Birth: 448
Death: 491

Father: Childeric I Merovingian b: 436 in Westfalen, Germany

Marriage 1 Agrippine of Burgundy b: 467
Children
Clothilde of Bergundy b: ABT 475 in Bourgogne, France

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- His father was NOT Nascien of Septimania, II [437A-486A].
- His father was NOT Childeric Merovingian, I [437A-482A].
- His mother was NOT Basina - [448A-509A].
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- "one of the four kings ('tetrarchs') of the Burgundians" [Dalton1915]
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- Wagner1975 "Burgundians, Visigoths, Franks and Lombards":ped#27:p#186
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Chilperic II (c. 450 – 493) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon. They were all sons of Gundioch.

Sometime in the early 470s Chilperic was forced to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire by the magister militum Ecdicius Avitus. In 475 he probably sheltered an exiled Ecdicius after the Visigoths had obtained possession of the Auvergne.

After his brother Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he turned on Chilperic. In 493 Gundobad assassinated Chilperic and drowned his wife, Caretena, then exiled their two daughters, Chroma, who became a nun, and Clotilda, who fled to her uncle, Godegisel. When the Frankish king, Clovis I, requested the latter's hand in marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline. Clovis and Godegisel allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn out civil war.

Sources

* Gregory of Tours. Historia Francoru
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Chilperic II (c. 450 – 493) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon. They were all sons of Gundioch.

Sources

* Gregory of Tours. Historia Francorum. Earnest Brehaut, trans. 1916.

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Name Chilperic II of Burgundy Birth abt 450 Death 486
Father Gundachar (Gundioc) King of Burgundy (~430-~473)
Mother Carstamena
Misc. Notes

Chilperic de Bourogne was King of Geneva and later King of Lyon. He is known to history as a king of the Franks.
Spouses
Children Clothilda (475-548)
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Chilperic II (c. 450 – 493) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon. They were all sons of Gundioch.

Sometime in the early 470s Chilperic was forced to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire by the magister militum Ecdicius Avitus. In 475 he probably sheltered an exiled Ecdicius after the Visigoths had obtained possession of the Auvergne.

After his brother Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he turned on Chilperic. In 493 Gundobad assassinated Chilperic and drowned his wife, Caretena, then exiled their two daughters, Chroma, who became a nun, and Clotilda, who fled to her uncle, Godegisel. When the Frankish king, Clovis I, requested the latter's hand in marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline. Clovis and Godegisel allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn out civil war.
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Chilperic II Burgundy
Chilperic II was born in 0445 in Bourgogne, France.1
Birth Notes
B: Abt. 445

Chilperic II's father was Gondioc de Burgundy and his mother was Caratena. His paternal grandparents were Gunther de Burgundy and . He was an only child. He died due to murder / assassination, Killed by his brother Gundobad, at the age of 29 in 0474.1
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King of Burgundy from 473 till his death. He was assassinated by his brother.

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Killed by his brother Gundobad.

Sources:

1. Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville, chart 1778s of Gondioc King of Burgundy (Bourgogne).

2. The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Part III Sergeant Jacob, Date of Import: Aug 7, 2000.
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Chilperic II (c. 450 – 493) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon. They were all sons of Gundioch.

Sometime in the early 470s Chilperic was forced to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire by the magister militum Ecdicius Avitus. In 475 he probably sheltered an exiled Ecdicius after the Visigoths had obtained possession of the Auvergne.

After his brother Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he turned on Chilperic. In 493 Gundobad assassinated Chilperic and drowned his wife, Caretena, then exiled their two daughters, Chroma, who became a nun, and Clotilda, who fled to her uncle, Godegisel. When the Frankish king, Clovis I, requested the latter's hand in marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline. Clovis and Godegisel allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn out civil war.
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Chilperic II (c. 450 – 493) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon. They were all sons of Gundioch. Sometime in the early 470s Chilperic was forced to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire by the magister militum Ecdicius Avitus.

In 475 he probably sheltered an exiled Ecdicius after the Visigoths had obtained possession of the Auvergne. After his brother Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he turned on Chilperic. In 493 Gundobad assassinated Chilperic and drowned his wife, Caretena, then exiled their two daughters, Chroma and Clotilda. Chroma became a nun and Clotilda fled to her uncle, Godegisel. When the Frankish king, Clovis I, requested the latter's hand in marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline. Clovis and Godegisel allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn out civil war.

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Chilperic II (c. 450 – 493) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon. They were all sons of Gundioch. Sometime in the early 470s Chilperic was forced to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire by the magister militum Ecdicius Avitus.

In 475 he probably sheltered an exiled Ecdicius after the Visigoths had obtained possession of the Auvergne. After his brother Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he turned on Chilperic. In 493 Gundobad assassinated Chilperic and drowned his wife, Caretena, then exiled their two daughters, Chroma and Clotilda. Chroma became a nun and Clotilda fled to her uncle, Godegisel. When the Frankish king, Clovis I, requested the latter's hand in marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline. Clovis and Godegisel allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn out civil war.
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Chilperic was forced in 561 at his father’s death to divide the kingdom with his brothers. He was chronically at war with brother Sigebert (especially after second wife’s death by strangulation [since she was the sister of Sigebert’s wife Brunhilde])

Chilperic wrote halting verse.

Chilperic was stigmatized by Gregory of Tours as another Nero or Herod because he sold bishoprics to the highest lay bidder. Here is what Gregory wrote about King Chilperic’s views on the Trinity: “At the same time king Chilperic wrote a little treatise to the effect that the holy Trinity should not be so called with reference to distinct persons but should merely have the meaning of God, saying that it was unseemly that God should be called a person like a man of flesh; affirming also that the Father is the same as Son and that the Holy Spirit also is the same as the Father and the Son. ‘Such,’ said he, ‘was the view of the prophets and patriarchs and such is the teaching the law itself has given.’ When he had had this read to me he said: ‘I want you and the other teachers of the church to hold this view.’ But I answered him: ‘Good king, abandon this belief; it is your duty to follow the doctrine which the other teachers of the church left to us after the time of the apostles, the teachings of Hilarius and Eusebius which you professed at baptism.’”

Chilperic was first married to Audovera, but he repudiated her in 567 to marry in Rouen to Galswintha (daughter of Athanagild, King of Visigothic Spain and sister of Brunhilde, wife of Chilperic’s brother Sigebert). This new bride was soon was murdered (strangled) at the instigation of Chilperic’s concubine Fredegund, our ancestor, who then became Chilperic’s third wife, at the beginning of 40 years of brutal warfare with Brunhilde.

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d. 584, Frankish king of Neustria (561–84), son of Clotaire I. He feuded bitterly with his brother Sigebert I, who had inherited the E Frankish kingdom that came to be known as Austrasia. Their struggle became savage after Chilperic and his

mistress and future wife, Fredegunde, murdered (567) Chilperic’s second wife, Galswintha; she was the sister of Sigebert’s wife, Brunhilda. In the wars between the two brothers, Sigebert overran Neustria before his death (575). Later, Chilperic

was murdered, probably at the instigation of Brunhilda. The feud was inherited by Chilperic’s son and successor, Clotaire II.

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilperic_II_of_Burgundy II (c. 450 – 493) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon. They were all sons of Gundioch.

Sometime in the early 470s Chilperic was forced to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire by the magister militum Ecdicius Avitus. In 475 he probably sheltered an exiled Ecdicius after the Visigoths had obtained possession of the Auvergne.

After his brother Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he turned on Chilperic. In 493 Gundobad assassinated Chilperic and drowned his wife, Caretena, then exiled their two daughters, Chroma, who became a nun, and Clotilda, who fled to her uncle, Godegisel. When the Frankish king, Clovis I, requested the latter's hand in marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline. Clovis and Godegisel allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn out civil war.
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Roi de Neustrie (561-584)

Roi de Paris (568-584)
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Reis da Austrásia

Faramundo 410-426

Clódio 426-447

Meroveu 447-458

Childerico I 458-481

Clóvis I 481 - 511

Childeberto I 511-558

Clotário I 511-561

Clodomiro 511-524

Teodorico I 511-534

Teodeberto I 534-548

Teodebaldo 548-555

Clotário I 558-561

Cariberto I 561-567

Chilperico I 561-584

Clotário II 584-629

Guntram 561-592

Childeberto II 592-595

Teodorico II 595-613

Sigeberto II 613

Sigeberto I 561-575

Childeberto II 575-595

Teodeberto II 595-612

Teodorico II 612-613

Sigeberto II 613

Clotário II 613-629

Dagoberto I 623-629

Dagoberto I 629-639

Cariberto II 629-632

Chilperico 632

Clóvis II 639-658

Clotário III 658-673

Teodorico III 673

Childerico II 673-675

Teodorico III 675-691

Sigeberto III 634-656

Childeberto o Adotado 656-661

Clotário III 661-662

Childerico II 662-675

Clóvis III 675-676

Dagoberto II 676-679

Teodorico III 679-691

Clóvis IV 691-695

Childeberto III 695-711

Dagoberto III 711-715

Chilperico II 715-721

Clotário IV 717-718

Chilperico II 718-721

Teodorico IV 721-737

Childerico III 743-751

Chilperico I

Rei da Nêustria (561-584)

Nascimento 539

Morte Setembro de 584 (juliano), Chelles

Chilperico I (◊ c. 539 † Setembro de 584) foi rei da Nêustria (ou Soissons) de 561 até sua morte. Era um dos filhos de Clotário I, rei de todos os francos, e Aregund.

Índice [esconder]

1 Vida

2 Pais

3 Casamentos e filhos

4 Referências

5 Ligações externas

6 Ver também

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Retrato de Chilperico I numa medalha de bronze1720.Imediatamente após a morte de seu pai, em 561, ele se empenhou em tomar posse de todo o reino, seqüestrando o tesouro acumulado na cidade real de Berny e entrando em Paris. Seus irmãos, no entanto, forçaram-no a dividir o reino com eles, e Soissons, junto com Amiens, Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne, Tournai e Bolonha ficaram com Chilperico I. Seu irmão mais velho Cariberto recebeu Paris, Guntram recebeu a Borgonha com sua capital em Orleães e Sigeberto I recebeu a Austrásia.À morte de Cariberto em 567, suas posses foram aumentadas quando seus irmãos dividiram o reino de Cariberto entre eles e combinaram compartilhar Paris.

Não muito após sua acessão, no entanto, ele entrou em guerra com Sigeberto, com quem ficaria num longo estado de antipatia. Sigeberto o derrotou e marchou para Soissons, onde ele derrotou e aprisionou o primogênito de Chilperico, Teodeberto. A guerra ampliou-se em 567, com a morte de Cariberto. Chilperico imediatamente invadiu as novas terras de Sigeberto, mas Sigeberto novamente o derrotou. Chilperico, então, aliou-se a Guntram contra Sigeberto (573), mas Guntram mudou de lado e Chilperico sofreu mais uma derrota.

Quando Sigeberto desposou Brunilda, filha do soberano visigodo da Espanha, Atanagildo, Chilperico também quis realizar um grande casamento. Ele já havia repudiado sua primeira esposa, Audovera, e tinha tomado como concubina uma serviçal chamada Fredegunda. Conseqüentemente, ele dispensou Fredegunda e se casou com a irmã de Brunilda, Galswintha. Mas ele logo se cansaria de sua nova parceira, e numa manhã Galswintha foi encontrada estrangulada em sua cama. Em poucos dias Chilperico casou-se com Fredegund.

Esse assassinato foi a causa da mais longa e sangrenta guerra, intercalada de armistícios, entre Chilperico e Sigeberto. Em 575, Sigeberto foi assassinado por Fredegunda no momento que ele tinha Chilperico sob misericórdia. Chilperico então declarou guerra ao protetor da esposa e do filho de Sigeberto, Guntram. Chilperico retomou sua posição, conquistando da Austrásia Tours e Poitiers e alguns locais na Aquitânia, e estimulou a discórdia no reino oriental durante a minoridade de Childeberto II.

Ele aparentava alguma cultura literária, e foi autor de algumas posias, tomando Sedúlio como modelo. Ele inclusive acrescentou letras ao alfabeto latino, ordenando que os manuscristos fossem reescritos com os novos caracteres. A captura de Tours da Austrásia e o seqüestro das propriedades eclesiásticas, além do hábito de Chilperico de apontar como bispos nobres do palácio que não eram clérigos, o que provocou o ódio amargo de Gregório de Tours, por quem Chilperico foi estigmatizado como Nero e Herodes de sua época.

Num dia de setembro de 584, enquanto retornava de uma caçada para sua vila real de Chelles, Chilperico foi apunhalado até a morte.

Chilperico deve ser considerado um soberano merovíngio típico. Ele era excessivamente ansioso em ampliar sua autoriade real. Ele era zeloso com o tesouro real, cobrando numerosos impostos, e suas medidas fiscais provocaram uma grande revolta em Limoges em 579. Quando sua filha Rigunth foi enviada aos visigodos como noiva para o rei Recaredo I, carregada de presentes esplendorosos, o exército que a acompanhou sobreviveu de modo voraz da terra no caminho até Toledo. Ele desejava a submissão da igreja, e para isso acabou vendendo bispados pela maior oferta, anulando os testamentos em favor dos bispados e abadias, e tentando impor sobre seus súditos uma concepção única da Santíssima Trindade, como Gregório de Tours relata:

Ao mesmo tempo que o rei Chilperico escrevia um pequeno exame sobre o efeito que a Santíssima Trindade não deveria ser assim chamada com referência a pessoas distintas mas deveria simplesmente ter o significado de Deus, dizendo que não era adequado que Deus fosse comparado a um homem de carne; afirmamdo também que o Pai, o Filho e o Espírito Santo são a mesma coisa. "Igual", disse ele, "era a visão dos profetas e patriarcas e assim era ensinada a lei". Quando ele havia lido isso para mim, disse: "Eu quero que você e os outros educadores da igreja apóiem este ponto de vista". Mas eu respondi: "Bom rei, abandone esta crença; é sua obrigação seguir a doutrina que os outros educadores da igreja nos deixou após o tempo dos apóstolos, os ensinamentos de Hilário e Eusébio que você professou no batismo". [1]

[editar] Pais

♂ Clotário I (◊ c. 498 † 561)

♀ Aregunda da Turíngia (◊ c. 510 † ?)

[editar] Casamentos e filhos

em 549 com Audovera (◊ 533 † c. 580)

♂ Teodeberto (◊ c. 550 † 575)

♂ Meroveu (◊ 552 † 577)

♂ Clóvis (◊ 555 † 580), assassinado por Fredegunda.

♀ Basina (◊ c. 565 † ?), freira, liderou uma revolta na abadia de Poitiers.

♀ Childesinta (◊ c. 567 † ?)

em Março de 567, Rouen, com Galswintha (◊ c. 540 † 568) filha de Atanagildo I, rei dos visigodos da Espanha. Sem filhos.

depois de 568 com Fredegunda (◊ 545 † 597) filha de Brunulfo, conde de Cambrai

♀ Rigonta (◊ 569 † ?) foi noiva de Recaredo I, rei dos visigodos da Espanha, mas não chegou a se casar.

♂ Sansão (◊ c. 573 † 577)

♂ Clodeberto (◊ 575 † 580)

♂ Dagoberto (◊ 578 † 580)

♂ Teoderico (◊ 582 † 584)

♂ Clotário II (◊ 584 † 629) seu sucessor na Nêustria e depois rei único dos francos.

[editar] Referências

Sérésia, L'Eglise el l'Etat sous les rois francs au VI siècle (Gante, 1888).

Dahmus, Joseph Henry. Seven Medieval Queens ("Sete Rainhas Medievais"). 1972.

Este artigo incorpora textos da Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, uma publicação agora de domínio público.

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Chilperic Of Neustria I 1 2
•Sex: M
•Birth: ABT 538 in Soissons, Aisne, France 3 2
•Death: 584 in Chelles, France 1 2
•Burial: UNKNOWN Saint Vincent Abbey, Paris, Seine, France 3
•Note:
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CHILPERIC I [d. 584], was one of the sons of Clotaire I. On his father's death in 561, fearing that, as he was illegitimate, his brothers
would deprive him of his share of the patrimony, he seized the royal treasury and entered Paris, prepared to bargain. The resulting division of the patrimony gave Chilperic the old Salian terrirories of the modern Picardy, Flanders and Hainault; this included Soissons. When Charibert died in 567, Chilperic's share of his property included lands and cities in the west and in Aquitaine. Distrust of his brothers, fear for his unsecured eastern frontier and the perpetual need of land and treasure for his followers caused Chilperic to attack Sigebert's town of Reims. There followed a series of campaigns in which Reims and Soissons were the key points. Sigebert's marriage to the Visigothic princess Brunhilda (Brunechildis), daughter of King Athanagild, seemed to endanger Chilperic's possessions in Aquitaine; so Chilperic put away his wife and married Galswintha, Athanagild's elder daughter. This prudent step angered his followers, who hated the Arian Visigoths. Galswintha was shortly murdered, to be replaced by Chilperic's former mistress, Fredegond. This lady was Gregory of Tours's pet aversion, but Chilperic's subjects seemed to prefer her to her predecessor. The consequent vendetta with Sigebert and Brunhilda, in which Guntram of Burgundy acted occasionally as arbitrator, lasted, almost without pause, for 40 years and was castigated by Gregory of Tours as 'bella civilia,' After Sigebert's murder in 575, Chilperic became effectively master of the 'regnum Francorum.' The Visigothic king Leovigild sought the hand of his daughter Rigunthis for his heir Reccared. Chilperic was assassinated near Chelles in 584. Chilperic was naturally ferocious and appeared to Gregory of Tours as the Nero and the Herod of his time. But he was the ablest and most interesting of the grandsons of Clovis. As a bastard he had to fight for his existence; yet, a builder of circuses, he seems to have had ideas about a king's duties that were Roman or Byzantine rather than Germanic. His fiscal measures were vigorous and provoked the hatred of the church (which suffered from them). His court circle had something more than pretensions to culture; it appreciated poetry and even theological discussion. Chilperic held his own views on the doctrine of the Trinity and revised the Latin alphabet to suit his tastes. It is a pity that our sources allow us to get no nearer to the motives of his wild, unhappy career. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 5, pg. 501, CHILPERICI]

Father: Charibert I Of Paris b: ABT 497 in Rheims, Marne, Loire-Alantique, France
Mother: Radegonda Of Thuringia b: ABT 500 in Thuringia, Germania (Germany)

Marriage 1 Fredegonda b: 543
•Married: 567 4 2
•Marriage Beginning Status: Partners
Children
1. Clothaire II Of Franks b: 584

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BIOGRAPHY: b. c. 539

d. , September or October 584, Chelles, France

Merovingian king of Soissons whom Gregory of Tours, a contemporary, called the Nero and the Herod of his age.

Son of Chlotar I by Aregund, Chilperic shared with his three half brothers (sons of Ingund, Aregund's sister) in the partition that followed their father's death in 561, receiving the poorest region, the kingdom of Soissons. To this was added, however, the best part of Charibert's lands on the latter's death in 567 or 568, so that Chilperic's kingdom corresponded in large part to that later known as Neustria. In 568 he repudiated his wives in order to marry Galswintha, sister of the Visigothic princess, Brunhild, who had herself recently married his half brother, Sigebert I; but he soon had Galswintha murdered and immediately married Fredegund, an earlier mistress. The consequences of this crime constitute virtually the only clearly discernible thread in the tangled skein of Frankish history over the next four decades, as first Sigebert, whose relations with Chilperic had in fact been bad from the start, and then his descendants, incited by Brunhild, sought revenge for Galswintha's murder upon the persons of Chilperic, Fredegund, and their family.

Saved from apparent disaster by the assassination of Sigebert I in 575, Chilperic was prevented from seizing the lands of the dead king's young heir, Childebert II, by the action of Guntram, his third half brother and the king of Burgundy. Although Chilperic succeeded in forming an alliance with Childebert against Guntram by recognizing the young king as his heir (581), this was short-lived; in 583 Childebert and Guntram again came to terms. A year later Chilperic fell victim to an unknown assassin, leaving a four-month-old son, Chlotar II.

Ambitious, brutal, and debauched, Chilperic nevertheless had pretensions to being a man of learning; he wrote poor poetry, became involved in theological matters, and ordered four letters to be added to the alphabet. Regarding the church as a major rival to his wealth, he treated the bishops with hostility and contempt; at the same time, he had a reputation for injustice toward his subjects at large and imposed heavy taxes.

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Source: THE RUFUS PARKS PEDIGREE by Brian J.L. Berry, chart page 61.

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6. CHILPèRIC I, 539-584, received the Kingdom of Soisson, by then called Neustria. Internal dissension began again. There was civil war, a burning of tax records and killing of tax collectors. Uprisings were severely punished by CHILPEèIC whose men even tortured as ring leaders a number of priests in Limoges. Yet he wrote Masses, hymns and a treatise on the Trinity. When he d. by assassination there was further juggling, temporarily abated during the rule of his son CHLOTAIRE II. CHILPèRIC mar. (3) FRèDEGONDE, 543-97, his first wife's maid, after she engineered the death of his second. FRèDEGONDE was one of the most bloodthirsty women in history. She murdered all who stood in her
way even after her husband's death. CHILPèRIC himself was constantly at war with his brother, King Siegbert of adjacent Austrasia; it was FRèDEGONDE who had him assassinated.

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3. CHILPèRIC II, a. 473-killed bef. 493, Burgundian king. An Arian christian, he mar. a Catholic and had two Catholic daughters. After gundobad killed him, he had the widow drowned and drove the two daughters in humiliating exile. One was CHLOTILDE.

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Source: "The Franks" by Edward James. Franks: Had unknown first wife, then Fredegund, who was set aside so he could marry Galswinth (Brunhild's sister). Shortly after the marriage, the couple quarrelled over Fredegund and Galswinth was found strangled in bed. Chilperic then married Fredegund again. Chilperic was assassinated in 584 while hunting at Chelles, near Paris. As Chilperic was dismounting from his horse, a man stepped forward and stabbed him.
Other sources: RC 303; AF; "Women in the Wall" chart.
RC: Chilperic I of Soissons, 561. "Women in the Wall" chart says the first wife was Audovera.
Wall: Chilperic of Neustria, died 584.

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1 NAME Chilperic of /Burgundy/ 2 SOUR S033320 3 DATA 4 TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001

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Sources: RC 349; "The Franks" by Edward James; Kraentzler 1657, 1778, 1780, Pfafman. RC 349 continues this line back another five generations, but with the warning that 1980 research does not carry this line beyond Chilperic. Will add two more generations from Kraentzler line 1778, just so they won't get lost.
K: Chilperic, King of Bourgogne. K-1657: Chilperich de Bourgogne, King of Geneve, later of Lyon.
Pfafman: Chilperic of Burgundy.

Chilperic II, King of the Burgundians
Third son of Gundioc, King of the Burgundians. After succeeding hisfather with his three brothers, he was killed by his brother Gundobad,along with his wife, and his two daughters were driven into exile.

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King of Burgundy (~473 - ~493)
Ville ikke la sin bror beholde makten alene, men ble overrasket of ham
ved Vienne and slain - hodet hans ble knust.

KING OF BURGUNDY, WHO SLEW ALARIC (KING OF THE GOTHS) IN 507, AND ANNEXED MOST
OF THE GOTHIC KINGDOM TO THE CROWN

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King of Soissons (Neustria). Acceded: 561

Clovis I (or Chlodowech or Chlodwig, modern French "Louis", modern German "Ludwig") (c.466 - November 27 , 511 at Paris ), was a member of the Merovingian dynasty. He succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks . These were a Germanic people occupying the area west of the lower Rhine , with their own center around Tournai and Cambrai , along the modern frontier between France and Belgium , in an area known as Toxandria .
In 486 , with the help of Ragnachar, Clovis defeated Syagrius , the last Roman official in northern Gaul , who ruled the area around Soissons in present-day Picardie . This victory extended Frankish rule to most of the area north of the Loire . After this, Clovis secured an alliance with the Ostrogoths , through the marriage of his sister Audofleda to their king, Theodoric the Great . He followed this victory with another in 491 over a small group of Thuringians east of his territories. Later, with the help of the other Frankish sub-kings, he defeated the Alamanni in the Battle of Tolbiac . He had previously married the Burgundian princess Clotilde (493 ), and, following his victory at Tolbiac , he converted in 496 to her Catholic faith. This was a significant change from the other Germanic kings, like the Visigoths and Vandals , who embraced the rival Arian beliefs.
The conversion of Clovis to Roman Catholic Christianity , the religion of the majority of his subjects, strengthened the bonds between his Roman subjects and their Germanic conquerors. However, Bernard Bachrach has argued that this conversion from his Frankish pagan beliefs alienated many of the other Frankish sub-kings, and weakened his military position over the next few years.
(Interestingly, the monk Gregory of Tours wrote that the pagan beliefs which Clovis abandoned were in Roman gods such as Jupiter and Mercury , rather than their Germanic equivalents. If Gregory's account is accurate, it suggests a strong affinity of Frankish rulers for the prestige of Roman culture, which they must have embraced as allies and federates of the Empire during the previous century.)
Though he fought a battle in Dijon in the year 500, Clovis did not successfully subdue the Burgundian kingdom. It appears that he somehow gained the support of the Armoricans in the following years, for they assisted him in his defeat of the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse at Vouillé (507 ), This victory confined the Visigoths to Spain and added most of Aquitaine to Clovis' kingdom. He then established Paris as his capital, and established an abbey dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul on the south bank of the Seine. All that remains of this great abbey is the Tour Clovis, a Romanesque tower which now lies within the grounds of the prestigious Lycèe Henri IV, just east of The Panthéon . (After its founding, the abbey was renamed in honor of Paris' patron saint, Geneviève. It was demolished in 1802)
According to Gregory of Tours , following the Battle of Vouillé , the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I , granted Clovis the title of consul . Since Clovis' name does not appear in the consular lists , it is likely he was granted a suffect consulship. Gregory also records Clovis' systematic campaigns following his victory at Vouillé to eliminate the other Frankish reguli or sub-kings. These included Sigibert of Cologne and his son Clotaire ; Chararic another king of the Salian Franks; Ragnachar of Cambrai , his brother Ricchar, and their brother Rigomer of LeMans .
Shortly before his death, Clovis called a synod of Gallic bishops to meet at Orléans to reform the church and create a strong link between the crown and the Catholic episcopate.
Clovis I died in 511 and is interred Saint Denis Basilica , Paris, France , whereas his father had been buried with the older Merovingian kings at Tournai. Upon his death, his realm was divided among his four sons, (Theuderic , Chlodomer , Childebert , and Clotaire ). This created the new political units of the Kingdoms of Reims , Orléans , Paris and Soissons and inaugurated a period of disunity which was to last with brief interruptions until the end (751 ) of his Merovingian dynasty.
Popular tradition, based on French royal tradition, holds that the Franks were the founders of the French nation, and that Clovis was therefore the first King of France.

Chilperik I der Merovingen-59232 [Parents] was born in 539. He died in Sep 584 in Chelles, Frankrijk. He married Fredegunde-59278. Other marriages: , Audovera , Galswintha Fredegunde-59278 was born in 543. She died in 596. She married Chilperik I der Merovingen-59232. They had the following children: M i Chlotarius II 'de Grote' der Merovingen-59236 was born in 584. He died on 4 Jan 629. M ii Theodebert-59279 died in 575.

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Merovingian king of Soissons whom Gregory of Tours, a contemporary,called the Nero and the Herod of his age.
Son of Chlotar I by Aregund, Chilperic shared with his three halfbrothers (sons of Ingund, Aregund's sister) in the partition thatfollowed their father's death in 561, receiving the poorest region, thekingdom of Soissons. To this was added, however, the best part ofCharibert's lands on the latter's death in 567 or 568, so thatChilperic's kingdom corresponded in large part to that later known asNeustria. In 568 he repudiated his wives in order to marry Galswintha,sister of the Visigothic princess,
Brunhild, who had herself recently married his half brother, Sigebert I;but he soon had Galswintha murdered and immediately married Fredegund, anearlier mistress. The consequences of this crime constitute virtually theonly clearly discernible thread in the tangled skein of Frankish historyover the next four decades, as first Sigebert, whose relations withChilperic had in fact been bad from the start, and then his descendants,incited by Brunhild, sought revenge for Galswintha's murder upon thepersons of Chilperic, Fredegund, and their family.
Saved from apparent disaster by the assassination of Sigebert I in575, Chilperic was
prevented from seizing the lands of the dead king's young heir,Childebert II, by the action of Guntram, his third half brother and theking of Burgundy. Although Chilperic succeeded in forming an alliancewith Childebert against Guntram by recognizing the young king as his heir(581), this was short-lived; in 583 Childebert and Guntram again came toterms. A year later Chilperic fell victim to an unknown assassin, leavinga four-month-old son, Chlotar II.
Ambitious, brutal, and debauched, Chilperic nevertheless hadpretensions to being a man of learning; he wrote poor poetry, becameinvolved in theological matters, and ordered four letters to be added tothe alphabet. Regarding the church as a major rival to his wealth, hetreated the bishops with hostility and contempt; at the same time, he hada reputation for injustice toward his subjects at large and imposed heavytaxes.

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He ruled Neustria with Soissons as his capital from 561 to 584.

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King of Neustria, France from 511. Divorced first wife, strangled 2nd.
Clothaire I stuck to Clovis' unfortunate precedent & divided his kingdon
between his sons. Note that Chilperic was the son of Ar‚gonde, a concubine
rather than a wife, which did not affect his entitlement to a share in the
inheritance.

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MEROVINGIAN; KING OF SOISSONS 561; KING OF PARIS 567

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Source: "The Franks" by Edward James. Franks: Had unknown first wife, then Fredegund, who was set aside so he could marry Galswinth (Brunhild's sister). Shortly after the marriage, the couple quarrelled over Fredegund and Galswinth was found strangled in bed. Chilperic then married Fredegund again. Chilperic was assassinated in 584 while hunting at Chelles, near Paris. As Chilperic was dismounting from his horse, a man stepped forward and stabbed him.
Other sources: RC 303; AF; "Women in the Wall" chart.
RC: Chilperic I of Soissons, 561. "Women in the Wall" chart says the first wife was Audovera.
Wall: Chilperic of Neustria, died 584.

PIC : Chilpéric, Ier du nom , roi des Francs (2), né sans doute peu avant 535, fils de Clotaire et d'Arnegonde, hérite d'abord, à la mort de son père (561), du royaume de Soissons, l'ancien pays des Saliens (Picardie, Flandre, Hainaut) (3), avec Soissons pour capitale, résidant à Tournai en cas de danger. Il fait une première tentative pour s'emparer de Paris en 561 mais est repoussé par ses frères(4). S'étant mis en guerre contre son frère Sigebert, il est vaincu et chassé. Néanmoins, à la mort de son frère Charibert, il réussit dans son entreprise, mettant la main sur la Neustrie : future Normandie, Maine, Anjou, Rennes ; en Aquitaine : Limousin, Quercy et Toulouse ; la majeure partie au sud de la Garonne : Bordeaux, Bazas, Dax avec la Béarn, le Bigorre et le Comminges. La guerre entre les fils de Clotaire fut toujours intermittente mais perpétuelle. Chilpéric poursuit de son côté sa politique agressive, quelque fois par ses fils interposés.
Ayant eu d'une première épouse trois fils, notamment Clovis et Theodebert, il les envoie à Tours, Bordeaux ou Poitiers. En 573, il s'allie à Gontran et marche contre Sigebert. Mais, trahi par Gontran, il est contraint de demander une paix peu glorieuse. Le répit ne dura qu'un an, après quoi Chilpéric renouvelle tout à la fois son alliance avec Gontran et son attaque contre l'Austasie. Son fils Theodebert, envoyé en avant-garde, est massacré par les ducs Godosigel et Gontran Boso. Trahi à nouveau par Gontran, il est enfermé dans Tournai par Sigebert, et sa situation aurait pu paraître désespérée si son épouse Frédégonde n'avait réussi à faire traîtreusement assassiner Sigebert au milieu de ses troupes. Chilpéric fait enterrer son frère et se rend avec sa femme et ses fils à Soissons. Du côté du défunt Sigebert, sa veuve Brunehaut est exilée à Rouen, cependant que leur jeune fils Childebert réussit à s'échapper et parvient en Austrasie où on le proclame roi. A Rouen, Brunehaut est rejointe par l'un des fils de son ennemi, le prince Mérovée, fils de Chilpéric et de sa première femme, lequel tombe éperdument amoureux d'elle et l'épouse. Chilpéric feint dans un premier temps de s'incliner, mais fait renvoyer Brunehaut en Austrasie et tonsurer son fils. Mérovée réussit à s'échapper et à rejoindre Brunehaut mais, à la fin, victime des machinations de sa marâtre, il périt assassiné, de même d'ailleurs que son jeune frère, Clovis, le dernier fils qui restait à Chilpéric. Entre 575 et 577, ce dernier fait quelques tentatives, rapidement repoussées, vers l'Aquitaine, ancienne possession de Sigebert, ou contre son autre frère Gontran, roi de Bourgogne. Ce dernier se rapproche de son neveu Childebert et conclut une alliance avec lui. Mais on ne peut faire que de vaines menaces envers Chilpéric. Cinq ans plus tard, coup de théâtre, Childebert II rejette l'alliance avec Gontran, auquel il réclamait en vain la moitié de Marseille, et s'unit à Chilpéric qui, désormais sans héritier, l'adopte (Nogent (5) près Paris, 581). Les forces conjointes de Chilpéric et de Childebert mettent donc à mal Gontran et auraient pu réduire celui-ci à une situation critique si une mutinerie de l'armée de Childebert ne l'avait obligé à faire marche arrière (583). Gontran en profite aussitôt pour lui céder Marseille et renouer ainsi son traité avec lui, isolant à nouveau Chilpéric. Quoique ce dernier reste le plus puissant des successeurs de Clovis, il n'est plus en mesure avec ses uniques forces de mettre à mal le pays de ses compétiteurs. Entre le 27 septembre et le 9 octobre 584 (6), alors qu'il revient d'une chasse près de Paris, à Chelles (Seine-et-Marne), un inconnu le larde de coups de couteaux et il rend son âme inique, dit Grégoire de Tours, qui ajoute : « Il n'avait jamais aimé véritablement personne et n'était aimé de personne ». Il est enterré dans l'abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés à Paris (7).

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Source: "The Franks" by Edward James. Franks: Had unknown first wife, then Fredegund, who was set aside so he could marry Galswinth (Brunhild's sister). Shortly after the marriage, the couple quarrelled over Fredegund and Galswinth was found strangled in bed. Chilperic then married Fredegund again. Chilperic was assassinated in 584 while hunting at Chelles, near Paris. As Chilperic was dismounting from his horse, a man stepped forward and stabbed him.
Other sources: RC 303; AF; "Women in the Wall" chart.
RC: Chilperic I of Soissons, 561. "Women in the Wall" chart says the first wife was Audovera.
Wall: Chilperic of Neustria, died 584.

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Hij is vermoedelijk op last van zijn echtgenote vermoord. Koning van het Frankische deelrijk met als hoofdstad Soissons (10-11-561 tot 09-584); koning van Neustrië (567

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