Chlothar II
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Chlothar II, sometimes called "the Young", was king of the Franks, ruling Neustria, Burgundy and Austrasia.
A treaty of King Chlothar II and the Lombards (from the Grandes Chroniques de France manuscript, 14th c.
Fredegund is cursed by Pretextatus, by Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
A young Clothar at the head of the army
Brunhilda of Austrasia
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Brunhilda was queen consort of Austrasia, part of Francia, by marriage to the Merovingian king Sigebert I of Austrasia, and regent for her son, grandson and great-grandson.
Chlothar II
…power upon the death of his mother in 597; though rich, his realm was one of the smallest portions of Francia. He continued his mother's feud with Queen Brunhilda with equal viciousness and bloodshed, finally achieving her execution by dismemberment in 613, after winning the battle that enabled Chlothar to unite…
The strangling of Queen Galswintha by Chilperic I.
Brunhilde is dragged to her death
The murder of Brunhilda, from De Casibus Virorum Illustrium, attributed to Maître François, Paris, c. 1475
Tomb of Brunhilda in the abbey church before 1790 (early 19th-century engraving by Alexandre Lenoir)