Saint Radegunda (Aregonde) Von Thuringen

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Aregund was one of Chlotar's many wives, and the mother of his sonChilperic, who succeeded him in Soissons. Her husband's previous wife wasIngund, her sister.

Saint married Clothaire I "The Old", King Of France in 531. Clothaire (son of King Clovis I "The Great", of France and Saint Clotilda (Queen Of The Franks) BURGUNDY) was born in 497 in Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Franconie; died on 10 Nov 561 in Braines, Loire-Atlantique, Franconie; was buried on 23 Nov 561 in St. Medard's Church, Soissons, Franconie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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 byAudovere] Theodebert defeats the Austrasian general Gondevald. The warbetween the brothers extends into 574 and 575 at which time the kingdomis invaded, and Chilperic is forced to take refuge in Tournai, and theGreat Nobles [viri in lustres] abandon him. After Siegbert is murdered in575, Chilperic and Fredegonde come out of Tournai. Chilperic piouslyburries his brother [whom he just had murdered] at Lambres, Chilperic I'sreign was marked by many wars he waged against his brothers for theterritories of the kingdom. He was assassinated. He was the King ofNeustrie.

Married between 562 and 584: Galswinthe=Galswitha, daughter ofAthanagild, King of Spain, Chilperic's second wife, and she may have beenthe mother of Merovee, herein ascribed to the first wife. She was to dieby strangling in a plot originated by Fredegonde (Chilperic's thirdwife). This murder began a bloody feud between Fredegonde and Brunehaut(Galswinthe's sister). Married before 584: Fredegonde; First the servantof Audovere, then first wife of Chilperic, Fredegonde was beautiful andambitious. She first had Chilperic I repudiate Audovere and lock her upin a monastery, where the unfortunate was murdered on the orders ofFredegonde after 15 years of solitary confinement. However, all did notgo immediately well, for when Chilperic learned of the brilliant marriageof his younger brother, Sigebert to Brunehaut, he arranged to haveFredegonde relegated to her role as concubine and asked Athanagild forthe hand of another of his daughter, the older sister of Brunehaut, namedGalswinthe. He promised in turn that he would repudiate all his otherspouses so as to be worthy of a wife of such royal blood. When Galswinthearrived, she was greeted with honor and respect as she brought anextensively rich treasure as dowry with her. Fredegonde had Galswitha,second wife of Chilperic strangled and replaced her on the throne. Thismurder 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 sonClothaire II. Died: in 584 in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, Champagne, France,Chilperic was assassinated, reportedly by a hired hand of Fredegonde ashe was returning from a hunt in Chelles [Seine-et-Marne] . His body wasshipped up the Marne and was buried in the Basilica de Saint-Vincent,near Paris [Saint-Germain-des-Pres].

Family/Spouse: Audovera. Audovera was born in 530; died in 580. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Fredegonda De Camberic ARDENNES. Fredegonda (daughter of Count Brunulphe D' ARDENNES and Crotechilde The OSTROGOTH) was born in 545 in France; died on 8 Dec 597 in Paris, Seine, Ile-DE-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chilperic married Galswintha (Princess Of The Visigoths) in 568. Galswintha was born in 540 in Spain; died in 567. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Theudebert was the son of King Chilperic I of Soissons by one of hisfirst wives. When his father had recently become king, they started acivil war with Chilperic's brother King Sigebert of Soissons. Sigebertwas victorious, marched on Soissons, defeated Theudebert who was incommand of the garrison there, and imprisoned him for one year. AfterKing Charibert of Paris (another of Chilperic's brothers) had died in567, Theudebert invaded Sigebert's lands again and destroyed many cities.In 575, another civil war was started between Chilperic, Sigebert, andGuntram (Chilperic's third brother) in which Theudebert was defeated andkilled.

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Merovech was the son of King Chilperic of Soissons by one of his firstwives. His father ordered him to march on Poitiers, but he instead wentto Tours, took the city, and married Brunhild, the widow of his lateuncle King Sigebert of Metz. Chilperic was very angry, and the two agreedto separate while in Rouen. There in Rouen, Chilperic and Merovech droveout Clovis (Chilperic's son) and Queen Fredegund (Chilperic's wife),taking the city. Merovech was put in the custody of his father and wasmade a priest to Le Mans. He instead returned to Tours seeking sanctuaryfrom his father. Chilperic found out and Merovech fled the city toChampagne. In 578, Merovech again sought sanctuary in Tours but waskilled on the order of his father.

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Clovis was the son of King Chilperic I of Soissons by one of his firstwives. In 567, when his uncle King Charibert of Paris died, he and hisfather attacked King Sigebert's (another brother of Chilperic) share ofthe kingdom of Paris, and Clovis was left in command at Tours. In 573,Sigulf, one of Sigebert's generals, drove Clovis out of Tours and re-tookthe city and forced him to take exile in Bordeaux. He then went to Rouenwith his step-mother Queen Fredegund, but the two were driven out in 576by King Chilperic and Clovis' brother Merovech. Chilperic then orderedClovis to march on Tours, and he took the cities of Touraine, Anjou, andSaintes. In 580 there was a major dysentery epidemic in all of Gaul inwhich Chilperic and Fredegund lost all of their children except Clovis.They then ordered Clovis to go to Berny, where the epidemic was stillactive, with hopes of killing him as well. He didn't catch the disease,so Fredegund had Clovis and his mother Audovera killed, and his sisterBasina put into a nunnery.

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In 580 there was a major dysentery epidemic in all of Gaul in which KingChilperic I of Soissons and his queen Fredegund lost all of theirchildren except Clovis. They then ordered Clovis to go to Berny, wherethe epidemic was still active, with hopes of killing him as well. Hedidn't catch the disease, so Fredegund had Clovis and his mother Audoverakilled, and his sister Basina put into a nunnery at Poitiers.
In Poitiers, from 589 to 590, Basina and her cousin Clotild led a revoltagainst the Abbess Leubovera. The revolt grew so large that the KingGuntram of Burgundy and King Childebert II of Austrasia asked bishopsfrom their kingdoms to handle it, since Count Macco of Poiters could not.And so, Ebregisel, Bishop of Cologne, Maroveus, Bishop of Poitiers, SaintGregory, Bishop of Tours, and Gundegisel, Bishop of Bordeaux passedjudgement to restore the Abbess to her position and to excommunicate bothBasina and Clotild. In 590, they were both pardoned by the king andrecommunicated by the bishops, and Basina returned to the nunnery whereshe spent the rest of her life in obedience to her Abbess.

Richilde married in 572. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Rigunth was the daughter of King Chilperic of Soissons and QueenFredegund who was promised to King Recared I of the Visigoths. She wasnever married to him, however, and was sent to exil in Spain. In 584, hermother, now in control of Soissons, called her back and she lived therest of her life in the court there. The fights between her and hermother are said to have often gotten near fatal (Gregory of Tours tellsof a time when Fredegund nearly choked her to death after shutting herhead in the lid of a chest and sitting on it with all her might!).

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Samson was a son of King Chilperic of Soissons. In 578 he was rejected byhis mother, but his father urged that he be baptized a Catholic. Hebecame ill that year and died the next.

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Theuderic was a son of King Chilperic of Soissons. On Easter Day, 583,Theuderic was baptized in Paris by the Bishop Ragnemod and his father theKing. The next year he died of dysentery.

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King of Newustria, KING OF SOISSONS, King of France

Upon Clotaire's birth, his mother had his father assassinated and ruled Neustrie in his name. He became King of Soissons in 584, and was sole King of the Franks in 613. He had his aunt Brunehaut (sister of hisfather's second wife) killed. In the year 596, through his mother Fredegonde, Clotaire II's territories were extended in the East. In 599, King Theodebert II of Austrasia and King Thierry II of Burgundy joinedforces to take revenge upon Clotaire II. The Army of Neustria is beatten and the entire valley of the Seine is devastated. As a result, ThierryII's territory increased by taking away from Clotaire II, the lands between the Seine and the Loire. Theodebert II takes the lands of the Duchy of Dentelin. In 604, the Mayor of the Palace, Bertaut arouses the subjects against the King of Burgundy and they call on Clotaire II for help. On Christmas Day, 604, Clotaire rushes to their aid and crosses the Seine and pushes all to way to Orleans. On his return, he encounters an Army of Bourgogne, and is defeated at Etampes at which battle Bertaut is killed. Because Theodebert had not intervened, actually he had made peace in Compiegne with Clotaire II, Thierry II took offense and the two brothers became less than thrilled with each other. Brunehaut, unhappy with Theodebert, names as next Mayor of the Palace a Gallo-Roman named Protadius. In 607, she pushed Thierry II to take up arms against his brother. During the battle, Protadius is killed and the two brothers make peace, humiliating their mother, Brunehaut. By 612, the brothers again were at war and Thierry II purchases Clotaire's neutrality by offering him the Duchy of Dentelin. In 613 Clotaire II invades Austrasia upon the death of Thierry II, kills two of Thierry's sons [the other twodisappear] , and has Brunehaut killed after the lords of Burgundy seizeher and give her to him. At her "trial" Clotaire II had accused Brunehaut of having caused the death of ten frankish Kings:
1. Sigebert her first spouse, who was assassinated [though through nofault of Brunehaut] ;
2. Merovee, the son of Chilperic I [who was actually assassinated on theorders of Fredegonde] ;
3. Chilperic [killed in 584, and through no part from Brunehaut] ;
4. Theodebert II
5. of his son Clotaire [it is possible that Brunehaut had Cloraireassassinated after he deserted her] ;
6. Merovee, son of Clotaire II [highly doubtful that Brunehaut had a partin this murder] ;
7. Thierry II and his three sons [Thierry died of dysentery, and 8-10.his three sons were massacred on the order of Clotaire II himself]. For3 days, Clotaire II personally tortures Brunehaut, then he parades hertied cross-wise to the back of a camel in front of his entire assembledarmy. Finally, he had her hair, and limbs tied to a wild horse which wasallowed to run within a confined space while being beaten, therebyecausing every limb to be broken and shortly thereafter she died at age 60to 65. At this time, Clotaire II becomes the only surviving descendant ofthe sons of Clovis. He governs the Frankish Kingdom from the Pyrenees tothe Rhine and beyond all the way to the Elbe, and the germanic peoplesmust pay him tribute. However, his power is limitted as in each of thethree ancient kingdoms [Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy] the Major Domus[Mayor of the Palace] becomes progressively more important. Submitting tothe pressure of these mayors, Clotaire, Clotaire II on 23 January 623makes his son Dagobert, King of occidental Austrasia [West of the Vosgesand the Ardennes] as well as of Aquitaine. Again under pressure, in 626,Clotaire gives Dagobert Gomatrude [his wife's sister] as spouse. Threedays after the wedding, Dagobert claims all of Austrasia was his, butClotaire keeps control over Provence and Aquitaine. Married before 603:Bertrude . Married before 604: Haldetrude ; Haldetrude was one of threewives.

King of Soissons 584-613 & King of the Franks 613-629 - When his father,King Chilperic I of Soissons died in 584, Chlotar was not yet even born.Until 597, his kingdom was administered by his mother, Queen Fredegund,but when she died that year he bagan to rule for himself, now 13 yearsold. In 613, the Austrasian and Burgundian kings, Theudebert II andTheuderic II respectively, had died, and Queen Brunhild had placed theyoung Sigebert II on the throne of those two kingdoms. That year, the 29year old Chlotar had Sigebert and Brunhild killed, and became the firstking of all the Franks since his grandfather Chlotar I died in 561. In615, Chlotar passed the Edict of Paris, a sort of French Magna Carta thatgreatly pleased the nobles across the kingdom. In 623, he gave thekingdom of Austrasia to his young son Dagobert I, which was a politicalmove giving Pepin I, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, and Bishop Arnulfof Metz, the two leading Austrasian nobles, semi-autonomy for theirloyalty to Chlotar. In 629, Chlotar died and Dagobert became sole king,moving his capital from Austrasia to Paris.

Chlothar married Hadeltrude before 600. Hadeltrude was born in 585; died in 604. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Chlothar married Bertrude De Burgundie BURGUNDY in 603 in His 2ND Marriage. Bertrude (daughter of Richomir BURGUNDY and Garitrude D' HAMAGE) was born in 582 in France; died in 618 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Emma married before 615. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Dagobert was the eldest son of Chlothar II and Haldetrude (575? 604) and the grandson of Fredegund. Chlothar had reigned alone over all the Franks since 613. In 622, Chlothar made Dagobert king of Austrasia, almost certainly to bind the Austrasian nobility to the ruling Franks. As a child, Dagobert lived under the care of the Carolingian dynasty forebears and Austrasian magnates, Arnulf of Metz and Pepin of Landen.

Chlothar attempted to manage the unstable alliances he had with other noble families throughout much of Dagobert's reign.[8] When Chlothar granted Austrasia to Dagobert, he initially excluded Alsace, the Vosges, and the Ardennes, but shortly thereafter the Austrasian nobility forced him to concede these regions to Dagobert. The rule of a Frank from the Austrasian heartland tied Alsace more closely to the Austrasian court. Dagobert created a new duchy (the later Duchy of Alsace) in southwest Austrasia to guard the region from Burgundian or Alemannic encroachments and ambitions. The duchy comprised the Vosges, the Burgundian Gate, and the Transjura. Dagobert made his courtier Gundoin? who incidentally established monasteries in Alsace and Burgundy? the first duke of this new polity that was to last until the end of the Merovingian dynasty. While Austrasian rulers such as Chlothar and Dagobert controlled these regions through part of the seventh-century, they eventually became autonomous kingdoms as powerful aristocratic families sought separate paths across their respective realms.[

Events in the life of Dagobert I des Francs Death 19 Jan 0639, in Epinay-sur-Seine, Seine-Saint-Denis, ?le-de-France, France. ?He was thirtysix when he died. He was the last of the great Merovingian kings. He had the ruthless energy of a Clovis and the cunning of a Charlemagne. He had come to rule over all the Franks by accident, and imposed on them, in their formative period, a personal, unitary rule. burial AFT 19 Jan 0639, in the basilica of Saint Denis, Paris, Seine-Saint-Denis, ?le-de-France, France. event 0629. ?succeeded his father to all three frankish kingdoms; Austrasia, Neustria, and Burgundy, birth 1 . ABT 0603. will 1 . Jan 0639. ?He left Austrasia to Sigebert, and Neustria and Burgundy to a younger son, Clovis. birth 1 , 2 . 0611.

Family/Spouse: Nantechild Of The FRANKS. Nantechild was born in 610 in Neustria, Belgium; died in 642. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Dagobert married Regintrude (concubine) in 630 in Concubine - 3Rd "Marriage". Regintrude (daughter of Nn AUSTRASIA) was born in 612; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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When his father Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 629, Charibertbecame King of Aquitaine and the rest of the kingdom passed to hisbrother Dagobert I, already king of Austrasia. In 632, the kingdom passedto Dagobert.