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Clovis I , King of The Salian Franks
(465-511)
Saint Clotilda of Burgundy
(475-545)
Clotaire I , King of The Franks
(Cir 501-561)
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Chilperic I , King of Soissons
(539-584)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Audovera

2. Galswintha
3. Frédégonde

Chilperic I , King of Soissons

  • Born: 539
  • Marriage (1): Audovera
  • Marriage (2): Galswintha in 567 in Rouen
  • Marriage (3): Frédégonde
  • Died: Sep 584, Near Chelles, Neustria at age 45

bullet   Cause of his death was Stabbed to death.

bullet   Another name for Chilperic was I Chilperic King Of Soissonsi.

bullet  General Notes:

King of Soissons 561-584 When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons. Right away, in 562, Chilperic invaded the lands of his brother King Sigebert I of Metz, thus starting the civil wars. Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic. In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated. Chilperic next allied with Guntram against Sigebert (who was in the midst of a war with Guntram). As hostilities mounted, Guntram swiched his alliance to Sigebert and Chilperic surrendered. The same exact thing happened the next year, 575, when Guntram again allied with Chilperic. That year, Sigebert died and left his kingdom to his son Childebert II. Chilperic banished Sigebert's wife Brunhild, took her money, and imprisoner her daughters. Chilperic then renewed hostilities with Guntram. In that year, Guntram's general Mummolus defeated Duke Desidarius, Chilperic's senior general. In 577, Guntram and Childebert made an alliance, demanding all of the lands Chilperic took from them. When the dysentery epidemic swept through Gaul in 580, Chilperic not only lost two sons but became ill himself. However, by the next year he was doing better and was able to make peace with Childebert. That year, as Chilperic had no sons of his own, he named his nephew, King Childebert II of Austrasia, his successor. A war with Guntram began and ended this year in which Duke Desidarius took many cities from the kingdom of Burgundy. In 582, Chilperic and Fredegund had another son, Theuderic, who died two years later. In 584, Chilperic was assassinated. He died at peace with his brother Guntram and at war with his nephew and alleged successor Childebert, but left a son born that very year: Chlotar.

bullet  Research Notes:

My information and source can be found at Foundation for Medieval Genealogy


Chilperic married Audovera. (Audovera died in 580.) The cause of her death was Murdered.


Chilperic next married Galswintha, daughter of Athanagild , Visigothic King of Spain, in 567 in Rouen. (Galswintha was born in 540 and died in 568.) The cause of her death was Murdered at the instigation of Frédégonde.


Chilperic next married Frédégonde. (Frédégonde was born in 580 and died in 597.)



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