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Fredegund died of natural causes on 8 December 597 in Paris. [15] The tomb of Frédégonde is a mosaic figure of marble and copper, situated in the Saint Denis Basilica, having come from the abbey church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Fredegund did not live to see it, but her son's execution of Brunhilda bore the mark of her conflict with Fredegund.
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 ...
Fredegund, queen of Neustria (died 597) ... First among chroniclers of the age is the canonised bishop of Tours, ... of Soissons: Basina ~560–620: Bertha of Kent
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
In 592, Guntram died and Childebert, per the treaty, succeeded to his kingdom, immediately making war on Clotaire II of Neustria, Chilperic's son by Fredegund. Under Fredegund's leadership, Brunhilda's troops were routed in the 593 Battle of Droizy. Childebert died in 596 at the age of twenty-six. [5]
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.
Soon Sigebert returned however and took Reims and marched to Soissons, where he defeated, seized the city, 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 Sigebert defeated him.
The Kingdom or Domain of Soissons is the historiographical name [2] for the de facto independent Roman [3] remnant of the Diocese of Gaul, which existed during late antiquity as a rump state of the Western Roman Empire until its conquest by the Franks in AD 486. Its capital was at Noviodunum, today the town of Soissons in France.