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Personal data Sigobert the Lame 

  • He died about 509.
    Oorzaak: Vermoord

Household of Sigobert the Lame


Child(ren):

  1. Chlodoric the Parricide  ????-± 509 


Notes about Sigobert the Lame

Sigobert the Lame (also Sigibert or Sigebert) (died c. 509) was a king of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks">Franks in the areaof https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%C3%BClpich">Zülpich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_language">Latin: Tolbiac) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne">Cologne.

He was presumably wounded at the knee at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tolbiac">Battle of Tolbiac against the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamanni">Alamanni.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_of_Tours">Gregory of Tours, he was murdered by his son https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlodoric_the_Parricide">Chlodoric upon the instigation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I">Clovis I, sometime after his victory on the Visigoths (507), when his son sent assassins upon him as he took a sojourn from his kingdom to a nearby forest. Chlodorich then told Clovis of the murder and offered him the finest treasures of his newly inherited kingdom as a symbol of their new alliance. Clovis sent messengers to assess the treasure, who then asked Chlodoric to plunge his hand as deeply into his gold coins as possible. With his arm submerged, the envoys of Clovis then killed the new king in betrayal. Clovis then stood before the people of Chlodoric and told them that the son had sent assassins to murder his father, but that Chlodoric had subsequently met his own end as well. Clovis then offered his protection to the former subjects of Sigobert and Chlodoric, and thus became their king.

Gregory suggests that Chlodoric was murdered in the same campaign that killed the Frankish King https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chararic_%28Frankish_king%29">Chararic. Before, Clovis had killed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnachar">Ragnachar and his brothers.

After all these murders, Gregory tells us that Clovis lamented that he had no family left, implying that among his own casualties were close relatives.

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Olga D. van de Veer, "Family tree van de Veer - Postma", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-postma/I1674.php : accessed January 4, 2026), "Sigobert the Lame (????-± 509)".