Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus, known as Saint Venantius Fortunatus, was a Latin poet and hymnographer in the Merovingian Court, and a bishop of the Early Church who has been venerated since the Middle Ages.
Venantius Fortunatus Reading His Poems to Radegonda VI by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1862).
Chilperic I was the king of Neustria from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of the Frankish king Clotaire I and Queen Aregund.
Portrait of Chilperic I from a 16th-century medal
Le jugement de Chilpéric, a tyrannical portrayal of Chilperic by Jean-Paul Laurens
The Frankish Realm in 561, after the death of Clothar I
The Frankish Kingdom after the death of Charibert I of Paris