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
Fredegund
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Fredegund or Fredegunda was the queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Neustria. Fredegund served as regent during the minority of her son Chlothar II from 584 until 597.
Chlothar II
…October 629) was king of the Franks, ruling Neustria (584–629), Burgundy (613–629) and Austrasia (613–623). The son of Chilperic I and his third wife, Fredegund, he started his reign as an infant under the regency of his mother, who was in an uneasy alliance with Chlothar's uncle King Guntram of Burgundy, who…
Fredegund as depicted in her funerary effigy at the Basilica of Saint-Denis
Fredegund and Rigunth, steel engraving from Mme de Witt, Vieilles histoires de la patrie, 1887