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Fredegund or Fredegunda (Latin: Fredegundis; French: Frédégonde; died 8 December 597) was the queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Neustria. [1] Fredegund served as regent during the minority of her son Chlothar II from 584 until 597.
The Battle of Droizy (593 CE), fought outside of Soissons, was an action in the ongoing rivalry between the two Merovingian queens, Brunhilda of Austrasia and Fredegund. In the battle, Fredegund deploys her inferior forces against Brunhilda using Roman military tactics: she chooses the field of battle; and she uses subterfuge.
He and his favorite mistress, Fredegund, conspired to murder her. In 568, an unknown assailant strangled Galswintha while she slept in her bed and Chilperic married Fredegund. Brunhilda so detested Fredegund for the death of her sister—and this hatred was so fiercely reciprocated—that the two queens persuaded their husbands to go to war. [4]
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. [1]
Fredegund, 568: 7 children September 584 Aged 44/45 Chelles: Resided at Soissons Childebert II c. 575 – March 595 c. 570 Son of Sigebert I and Brunhilda: Faileuba: 4 children March 595 Aged 24/25 Resided at Metz His mother Brunhilda acted as regent in his early years. Inherited Burgundy from Guntram Chlothar II [1] September 584 – 18 ...
Clovis I united all the Frankish petty kingdoms as well as most of Roman Gaul under his rule, conquering the Domain of Soissons of the Roman general Syagrius as well as the Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse. He took his seat at Paris, which along with Soissons, Reims, Metz, and Orléans became the chief residences. Upon his death, the kingdom was ...
Merovech of Soissons, married the widow Brunhilda, becoming his father's enemy. Killed by his servants on his own orders in 578. Clovis of Soissons, assassinated by Fredegund in 580. [3] Childesinda, mentioned but once in the Liber Historiae Francorum as the infant whose botched baptism led to Audovera's dismissal. Committed to the same nunnery ...
Chilperic I of Soissons was assassinated. His infant son Chlothar II became king and his wife Fredegund became regent. 592: 28 January: Guntram of Burgundy died, his realm was passed on to Childebert II who was his adoptive son. 8 December: Fredegund died so the 13-year-old Chlothar II started his reign as King of Neustria. 589: 17 October