Chilperic I (c. 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. Events By Place Byzantine Empire Ravenna becomes an Exarchate of the Byzantine Empire. Events By Place Europe Andeca deposes and kills Eboric to become king of the Suevi. The territory of Neustria or Neustrasia, meaning "new land" originated in 511 made up of the regions from Aquitaine to the English Channel, Soissons is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardie in northern France, located on the Aisne River, about 100 Events By Place Europe Clotaire I dies and the Frankish kingdom is divided Sigebert I becomes king of Austrasia He was one of the sons of Clotaire I, sole king of the Franks, and Aregund. Chlothar I (or Chlothachar, Chlotar, Clothar, Clotaire, Chlotochar, or Hlothar, giving rise to Lothair; 497 The Franks or Frankish people (Franci or gens Francorum) were West Germanic tribes first identified in the 3rd century as an Ethnic group Aregund, Aregunda, Arnegund, Aregonda, or Arnegonda was the wife of Clotaire I, King of the Franks, and the mother of
Immediately after the death of his father in 561, he endeavoured to take possession of the whole kingdom, seized the treasure amassed in the royal town of Berny and entered Paris. Events By Place Europe Clotaire I dies and the Frankish kingdom is divided Sigebert I becomes king of Austrasia Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city His brothers, however, compelled him to divide the kingdom with them, and Soissons, together with Amiens, Arras, Cambrai, Thérouanne, Tournai, and Boulogne fell to Chilperic's share. Amiens (amjɛ̃ is a city and commune in northern France, 120 km north of Paris. Arras (Atrecht is the capital of the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France. Cambrai (Dutch Kamerijk; old spelling Cambray) is a French town and commune, in the Nord département, Thérouanne is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais département in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. Tournai (in Dutch Doornik, in Latin: Tornacum) is a Walloon City and municipality of Belgium Boulogne-sur-Mer ( Bonen in Dutch is a City in Northern France. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris, the second eldest brother Guntram received Burgundy with its capital at Orléans, and Sigebert received Austrasia. Charibert I (c 517&ndashNovember or December 567 was the Merovingian King of Paris, the second-eldest son of Chlothar I and Ingund. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Saint Guntram (c 532 – 592 (also called Gontram, Gontran, Gunthram, or Gunthchramn) was the king of Burgundy from 561 to 592 Burgundy (Bourgogne Burgund is a region historically situated in modern-day France and Switzerland, inhabited in turn by Celts ( Gauls) This article is about the French city of Orléans for other meanings see Orleans (disambiguation. Sigebert I (535-575 was the king of Austrasia from the death of his father in 561 to his own death Austrasia (rarely Austria, both meaning "eastern land" formed the north-eastern portion of the Kingdom of the Merovingian Franks, comprising On the death of Charibert in 567, his estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris. Events By Place Europe Liuva I succeeds Athanagild as king of the Visigoths.
Not long after his accession, however, he was at war with Sigebert, with whom he would long remain in a state of—at the very least—antipathy. Sigebert defeated him and marched to Soissons, where he defeated and imprisoned Chilperic's eldest son, Theudebert. Theudebert was the eldest son of King Chilperic I of Soissons, through his first wife Audovera. The war flared in 567, at the death of Charibert. Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's new lands, but Sigbert defeated him. Chilperic later allied with Guntram against Sigebert (573), but Guntram changed sides and Chilperic again lost the war. Events By Place Europe The Battle of Arfderydd is fought between Gwenddoleu ap Ceidio and the sons of Eliffer Gwrgi and
When Sigebert married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. The Visigoths (Visigothi, Wisigothi, Vesi, Visi, Wesi, or Wisi were one of two main branches of the Goths, an East Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Athanagild (died 567 was Visigothic King of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, today Spain and Portugal) He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera, and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegund. Audovera was the first wife or mistress of Chilperic I, king of Neustria. Fredegund or Fredegunda (also Latin Fredegundis or French Frédégonde; died 597 was the Queen consort of Chilperic He accordingly dismissed Fredegund, and married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. Galswintha (540-568 was the daughter of Athanagild, Visigothic king of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and But he soon tired of his new partner, and one morning Galswintha was found strangled in her bed. A few days afterwards Chilperic married Fredegund.
This murder was the cause of more long and bloody wars, interspersed with truces, between Chilperic and Sigebert. In 575, Sigebert was assassinated by Fredegund at the very moment when he had Chilperic at his mercy. Events By Place Europe The Kingdom of East Anglia is founded by the Angle groups "North Folk" and "South Chilperic then made war with the protector of Sigebert's wife and son, Guntram. Chilperic retrieved his position, took from Austrasia Tours and Poitiers and some places in Aquitaine, and fostered discord in the kingdom of the east during the minority of Childebert II. Tours is a city in France the Préfecture (capital city of the Indre-et-Loire département, on the lower reaches of the river Poitiers is a town on the Clain River in west central France. Aquitaine (Aquitània Akitania archaic Guyenne / Guienne (Occitan Guiana) is one of the 26 Regions of France, in the south-western part of Childebert II (570-595 was the Merovingian king of Austrasia, which included Provence at the time from 575 until his death in 595 the eldest and succeeding son
In 578, Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch of the Vannetais along the Vilaine. Events By Place Byzantine Empire Tiberius II Constantine succeeds Justin II as Byzantine Emperor. Waroch was an early Breton ruler of the Vannetais. Waroch gave his name to the traditional French province of Broërec ( Bro-Waroch, "Waroch's Vannes (Gwened is a town and commune located in the Morbihan département, in Brittany, in the west of France. The Vilaine (Gwilen is a River in Brittany, in the west of France. The Frankish army consisted of units from the Poitou, Touraine, Anjou, Maine, and Bayeux. Poitou was a province of west-central France whose capital city was Poitiers. Touraine may also refer to Alain Touraine, French sociologist Anjou is a former County (c 880) Duchy ( 1360) and province centred on the city of Angers in the lower The State of Maine ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean Bayeux (bajø is a commune in the Calvados département, in Normandy in northwestern France. The Baiocassenses (men from Bayeux) were Saxons and they in particular were routed by the Bretons. The Saxons or Saxon people were a Confederation of Old Germanic tribes. [1] The armies fought for three days before Waroch submitted, did homage for Vannes, sent his son as a hostage, and agreed to pay an annual tribute. He subsequently broke his oath, but Chilperic's dominion over the Bretons was relatively secure, as evidence by Venantius Fortunatus celebration of it in a poem. Saint Venantius Fortunatus or Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus (c
He was detested by Gregory of Tours, who dubbed him as the Nero and Herod of his time (History of the Franks book vi. Saint Gregory of Tours ( November 30, c 538 &ndash November 17, 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and bishop of Tours Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( December 15, 37 – June 9, 68) born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called 46): he had provoked Gregory's wrath by wresting Tours from Austrasia, seizing of ecclesiastical property, and appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics. His reign in Neustria also saw the introduction of the Byzantine punishment of eye-gouging. Yet, he was also a man of culture: he was a musician of some talent, and his verse (modeled on that of Sedulius) is well-regarded; he reformed the Germanic alphabet; and he worked to reduce the worst effects of Salic law upon women. Coelius (or Caelius, both styles of Praenomen of doubtful authenticity Sedulius, was a Christian Poet of the first
It was one day in September of 584, while returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles, that Chilperic was stabbed to death. Events By Place Europe Andeca deposes and kills Eboric to become king of the Suevi. A villa was originally an Upper-class Country house, though since its origins in Roman times the idea and function of a villa has evolved considerably Chelles is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.
Chilperic may be regarded as the type of Merovingian sovereigns. The Merovingians (also Merovings) were a Salian Frankish dynasty that came to rule the Franks in a region (known as Francia in Latin He was exceedingly anxious to extend the royal authority. He was jealous of the royal treasury, levied numerous imposts, and his fiscal measures provoked a great sedition at Limoges in 579. Limoges ( Lemòtges / Limòtges in the Limousin dialect of Occitan language) is a city and commune in France, the préfecture Deaths February — Khosrau I, king of Persia Pope Benedict I Theodric, king of Bernicia When his daughter Rigunth was sent to the Visigoths as a bride for King Reccared, laden with wagonloads of showy gifts, the army that went with her lived rapaciously off the land as they travelled to Toledo. Reccared (or Recared) I (reigned 586—601 was Visigothic King of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) Toledo Spain locationpng|thumb|right|200px|Location of Toledo in Spain He wished to bring about the subjection of the church, and to this end sold bishoprics to the highest bidder, annulled the wills made in favour of the bishoprics and abbeys, and sought to impose upon his subjects a unique conception of the Trinity, as Gregory of Tours here relates:
- At the same time king Chilperic wrote a little treatise to the effect that the holy Trinity should not be so called with reference to distinct persons but should merely have the meaning of God, saying that it was unseemly that god should be called a person like a man of flesh; affirming also that the Father is the same as Son and that the Holy Spirit also is the same as the Father and the Son. An abbey (from Latin abbatia derived from Syriac abba "father" is a Christian Monastery or SSC RF "Troitsk Institute of Innovative and Termonuclear Research" or TRINITY for shprt Троицкий Институт инновационных и термоядерных "Such," said he, "was the view of the prophets and patriarchs and such is the teaching the law itself has given. " When he had had this read to me he said: "I want you and the other teachers of the church to hold this view. " But I answered him: "Good king, abandon this belief; it is your duty to follow the doctrine which the other teachers of the church left to us after the time of the apostles, the teachings of Hilarius and Eusebius which you professed at baptism. " [1]
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Family
Chilperic's first marriage was to Audovera. They had four children:
- Theudebert, died in the war of 575
- Merovech (d. Theudebert was the eldest son of King Chilperic I of Soissons, through his first wife Audovera. 578), married the widow Brunhilda and became his father's enemy
- Clovis, assassinated by Fredegund in 580
- Basina, nun, led a revolt in the abbey of Poitiers
His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children. Events By Place Byzantine Empire Tiberius II Constantine succeeds Justin II as Byzantine Emperor. Basina was the only daughter and youngest child of Chilperic I, king of Soissons (later Neustria) and his first wife Audovera.
His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund produced four more legitimate offspring:
- Samson, died young
- Rigunth, betrothed to Reccared but never married
- Theuderic, died young
- Clotaire, his successor in Neustria, later sole king of the Franks
Notes
- ^ Howorth, 309. Chlothar II (or Chlotar, Clothar, Clotaire, Chlotochar, or Hlothar, giving rise to Lothair; 584 &ndash 629 called
Sources
- Sérésia, L'Eglise el l'Etat sous les rois francs au VI siècle (Ghent, 1888). Ghent (ˈɡɛnt Gent ʝɛnt in Dutch, Gand in French, and formerly Gaunt in English) is a City and a Year 1888 ( MDCCCLXXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a
- Dahmus, Joseph Henry. Joseph Henry Dahmus ( March 22, 1909 - March 7, 2005) was an American scholar of Medieval history and the author of many Seven Medieval Queens. 1972. Year 1972 ( MCMLXXII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
External links
- History of the Franks: Books I-X At Medieval Sourcebook.
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Chilperic I
Born: 539 Died: 584 |
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| Preceded by Clotaire I |
King of Soissons (Neustria) 561–584 |
Succeeded by Clotaire II |
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