1/14/2024 0 Comments Castellum stronghold![]() Guntram decided to house her more safely, though unwillingly, in a nunnery at Arles. His surviving queen (out of four), Theudechild, proposed a marriage with Guntram, though a council held at Paris in 557 had outlawed such matches as incestuous. At his death, his brothers divided his realm between them, agreeing at first to hold Paris in common. As a result, he was buried in disgrace at Blavia castellum, a stronghold in the Tractatus Armoricani. This was the first ever excommunication of a Merovingian king. He maintained four concurrent wives, two of them sisters, and this resulted in his excommunication by Germanus. Though Charibert was eloquent and learned in the law, Gregory of Tours found him one of the most dissolute of the early Merovingians. Sigebert received Austrasia (including Rheims) with his capital at Metz, and the youngest brother Chilperic received a compact kingdom with Soissons as its capital. His other chief cities were Rouen, Tours, Poitiers, Limoges, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Cahors, and Albi. Charibert received Neustria (the region between the Somme and the Loire), Aquitaine, and Novempopulana with Paris as his capital. Their kingdoms were named after the city from which they ruled. Each son ruled a distinct realm which was not necessarily geographically coherent but could contain two unconnected regions. Partition of Chlothar's kingdom, 561 Charibert's realm in pinkĪfter the actual death of Chlothar in 561, the Frankish kingdom was divided between his sons in a new configuration ( map, left). Charibert and Guntram immediately returned to Burgundy to secure their positions. However, a thunderstorm prevented any engagement, and Chramn (who was hiding out in Black Mountain) sent forged letters to his brothers (Charibert and Guntram) in which he falsely reported the death of their father (Chlothar). When the negotiations failed, the two armies prepared for battle. During ongoing negotiations, Chramn was hiding out on Black Mountain in the Limousin. In 556, Chlothar sent his sons Charibert and Guntram (his youngest) against their stepmother, "Chunna," and younger stepbrother, " Chramn," who were in revolt. Augustine of Canterbury's mission in 597, effecting the conversion to Christianity of the first Anglo-Saxon ruler. Her influence in the Kentish court was instrumental in the success of St. She took Bishop Liudhard with her as her private confessor. By Theodogilda (or Theudechild), a cowherd's daughter Charibert had a son who died in infancy.Ĭharibert married his daughter Bertha to Æthelberht, the pagan King of Kent. By Merofleda, a wool carder's daughter, and her sister Marcovefa, he had daughters: Berteflede (a nun in Tours) and Clothilde (a nun in St. Chartibert I, King of France, offering the royal ring to Theudechild (J D Lascours, d'après Jean-Antoine Laurent)Ĭharibert also had several concubines.
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