Crotechilde The OSTROGOTH

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Family/Spouse: Count Brunulphe D' ARDENNES. Brunulphe was born in 503; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Fredegund was the main wife and Queen of King Chilperic I of Soissons.She was an evil women, but strong, and so when Chilperic died in 584 leaving a newborn son Chlotar II, Queen Fredegund ruled the kingdom effectively until he came of age. Her view of politics included assassinations, and so attempts were made at the lives of King Childebert II of Austrasia (585), King Guntram of Burgundy (587), Queen Brunhild(584), and many others. When she died in 597, her son Chlotar II was 13, old enough to rule on his own.

Family/Spouse: King Chilperic I (King Of Neustrie) FRANCS. Chilperic (son of Clothaire I "The Old", King Of France and Saint Radegunda (Aregonde) Von Thuringen) was born in 536 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in Sep 584 in Chelles, Neustria, France; was buried in St.Vincent's Church, Paris, Seine, Franconie. [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.