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.
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
Chlothar II
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Chlothar II, sometimes called "the Young", was king of the Franks, ruling Neustria, Burgundy and Austrasia.
Fredegund
…December 597) 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. Fredegund has traditionally been given a rather poor reputation, foremost by the accounts of Gregory of Tours, who depicts her as…
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