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Chlothar II

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Chlothar II (or Chlotar, Clothar, Clotaire, Chlotochar, or Hlothar; 584–629), called the Great or the Young, was King of Neustria and King of the Franks, and the son of Chilperic I and his third wife, Fredegund. [1]

79 relations: Agilulf, Aisne, Amiens, Antisemitism, Aquitaine, Aregund, Arnulf of Metz, Athanagild, Austrasia, Basina of Thuringia, Beauvais, Bernard Bachrach, Bertrude, Blois, Bonneuil-sur-Marne, Brunhilda of Austrasia, Burgundy, Chalon-sur-Saône, Charibert I, Charibert II, Charles Oman, Chartres, Châteaudun, Childebert II, Childeric I, Chilperic I, Chilperic II of Burgundy, Chlothar I, Chronicle of Fredegar, Clotilde, Clovis I, Dagobert I, Dormelles, Edict of Paris, Edward James (historian), Erchinoald, Francia, Fredegund, Galswintha, Gregory of Tours, Guntram, J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, Limoges, List of Frankish kings, List of kings of Burgundy, Magna Carta, Mayor of the Palace, Meaux, Merovingian dynasty, Metz, ..., Monogamy, Montereau-Fault-Yonne, Neuchâtel, Neustria, Orbe, Orléans, Paris, Pepin of Landen, Pepin the Short, Poitiers, Rado (mayor of the palace), Reccared I, Reims, Rigunth, Rouen, Septimania, Sichilde, Sigebert I, Sigebert II, Soissons, Theudebert II, Theuderic II, Toledo, Spain, Tours, Troyes, Vitry-en-Artois, Vitry-sur-Seine, Warnachar II, Witteric. Expand index (29 more) »

Agilulf

Agilulf (555 – April 616) called the Thuringian, was a duke of Turin and king of the Lombards from 591 until his death.

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Aisne

Aisne is a French department in the Hauts-de-France region of northern France.

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Amiens

Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille.

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Antisemitism

Antisemitism (also spelled anti-Semitism or anti-semitism) is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews.

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Aquitaine

Aquitaine (Aquitània; Akitania; Poitevin-Saintongeais: Aguiéne), archaic Guyenne/Guienne (Occitan: Guiana) was a traditional region of France, and was an administrative region of France until 1 January 2016.

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Aregund

Aregund, Aregunda, Arnegund, Aregonda, or Arnegonda (c. 515/520–580) was a Frankish queen, the wife of Clotaire I, king of the Franks, and the mother of Chilperic I of Neustria.

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Arnulf of Metz

Saint Arnulf of Metz (582640) was a Frankish bishop of Metz and advisor to the Merovingian court of Austrasia, who retired to the Abbey of Remiremont.

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Athanagild

Athanagild (517 – December 567) was Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania.

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Austrasia

Austrasia was a territory which formed the northeastern section of the Merovingian Kingdom of the Franks during the 6th to 8th centuries.

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Basina of Thuringia

Basina or Basine (c. 438 – 477) was a queen of Thuringia in the middle of the fifth century.

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Beauvais

Beauvais archaic English: Beawayes, Beeway, Boway, is a city and commune in northern France.

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Bernard Bachrach

Bernard S. Bachrach (born 1939) is an American historian and a professor of history at the University of Minnesota.

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Bertrude

Bertrude (c. 582–618 or 619) was a Frankish queen consort from 613 to 618.

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Blois

Blois is a city and the capital of Loir-et-Cher department in central France, situated on the banks of the lower river Loire between Orléans and Tours.

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Bonneuil-sur-Marne

Bonneuil-sur-Marne is a commune in the Val-de-Marne department in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Brunhilda of Austrasia

Brunhilda (c. 543–613) was a Queen of Austrasia by marriage to the Merovingian King Sigebert I of Austrasia, part of Francia.

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Burgundy

Burgundy (Bourgogne) is a historical territory and a former administrative region of France.

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Chalon-sur-Saône

Chalon-sur-Saône is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

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Charibert I

Charibert I (Caribert; Charibertus; c. 517 – December 567) was the Merovingian King of Paris, the second-eldest son of Chlothar I and his first wife Ingund.

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Charibert II

Charibert II (607/617–8 April 632), a son of Clotaire II and his junior wife Sichilde, was briefly King of Aquitaine from 629 to his death, with his capital at Toulouse.

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Charles Oman

Sir Charles William Chadwick Oman, KBE, FBA (12 January 1860 – 23 June 1946) was a British military historian.

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Chartres

Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in France.

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Châteaudun

Châteaudun is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.

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Childebert II

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 of Sigebert I, and the king of Burgundy from 592 to his death, as the adopted and succeeding son of his uncle Guntram.

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Childeric I

Childeric I (Childéric; Childericus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hildirīk; – 481) was a Frankish leader in the northern part of imperial Roman Gaul and a member of the Merovingian dynasty, described as a King (Latin Rex), both on his Roman-style seal ring, which was buried with him, and in fragmentary later records of his life.

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Chilperic I

Chilperic I (c. 539 – September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death.

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Chilperic II of Burgundy

Chilperic II (Chilperikus; 450–493 AD) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death.

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Chlothar I

Chlothar I (c. 497 – 29 November 561), also called "Clotaire I" and the Old (le Vieux), King of the Franks, was one of the four sons of Clovis I of the Merovingian dynasty.

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Chronicle of Fredegar

The Chronicle of Fredegar is the conventional title used for a 7th-century Frankish chronicle that was probably written in Burgundy.

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Clotilde

Saint Clotilde (475–545), also known as Clothilde, Clotilda, Clotild, Rotilde etc.

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Clovis I

Clovis (Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig; 466 – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.

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Dagobert I

Dagobert I (Dagobertus; 603/605 – 19 January 639 AD) was the king of Austrasia (623–634), king of all the Franks (629–634), and king of Neustria and Burgundy (629–639).

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Dormelles

Dormelles is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Edict of Paris

The Edict of Paris of Chlothar II, the Merovingian king of the Franks, promulgated 18 October 614 (or perhaps 615), is one of the most important royal instruments of the Merovingian period in Frankish history and a hallmark in the history of the development of the Frankish monarchy.

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Edward James (historian)

Edward Frederick James (born 14 May 1947) is a British scholar of medieval history and science fiction.

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Erchinoald

Erchinoald (also Erkinoald and, in French, Erchenout) succeeded Aega as the mayor of the palace of Neustria in 641 and succeeded Flaochad in Burgundy in 642 and remained such until his death in 658.

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Francia

Francia, also called the Kingdom of the Franks (Regnum Francorum), or Frankish Empire was the largest post-Roman Barbarian kingdom in Western Europe.

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Fredegund

Fredegund or Fredegunda (Latin: Fredegundis; French: Frédégonde; died 8 December 597) was the Queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Soissons.

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Galswintha

Galswintha (540–568) was a queen consort of Neustria.

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Gregory of Tours

Saint Gregory of Tours (30 November c. 538 – 17 November 594) was a Gallo-Roman historian and Bishop of Tours, which made him a leading prelate of the area that had been previously referred to as Gaul by the Romans. He was born Georgius Florentius and later added the name Gregorius in honour of his maternal great-grandfather. He is the primary contemporary source for Merovingian history. His most notable work was his Decem Libri Historiarum (Ten Books of Histories), better known as the Historia Francorum (History of the Franks), a title that later chroniclers gave to it, but he is also known for his accounts of the miracles of saints, especially four books of the miracles of St. Martin of Tours. St. Martin's tomb was a major pilgrimage destination in the 6th century, and St. Gregory's writings had the practical effect of promoting this highly organized devotion.

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Guntram

Saint Gontrand (c. AD 532 in Soissons – 28 January AD 592 in Chalon-sur-Saône), also called Gontran, Gontram, Guntram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, was the king of the Kingdom of Orleans from AD 561 to AD 592.

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J. M. Wallace-Hadrill

John Michael Wallace-Hadrill CBE, FBA (29 September 1916 – 3 November 1985) was a senior academic and one of the foremost historians of the early Merovingian period.

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Limoges

Limoges (Occitan: Lemòtges or Limòtges) is a city and commune, the capital of the Haute-Vienne department and was the administrative capital of the former Limousin region in west-central France.

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List of Frankish kings

The Franks were originally led by dukes (military leaders) and reguli (petty kings).

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List of kings of Burgundy

The following is a list of the kings of the two Kingdoms of Burgundy, and a number of related political entities devolving from Carolingian machinations over family relations.

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Magna Carta

Magna Carta Libertatum (Medieval Latin for "the Great Charter of the Liberties"), commonly called Magna Carta (also Magna Charta; "Great Charter"), is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.

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Mayor of the Palace

Under the Merovingian dynasty, the mayor of the palace (maior palatii) or majordomo (maior domus) was the manager of the household of the Frankish king.

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Meaux

Meaux is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in the metropolitan area of Paris, France.

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Merovingian dynasty

The Merovingians were a Salian Frankish dynasty that ruled the Franks for nearly 300 years in a region known as Francia in Latin, beginning in the middle of the 5th century.

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Metz

Metz (Lorraine Franconian pronunciation) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers.

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Monogamy

Monogamy is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime — alternately, only one partner at any one time (serial monogamy) — as compared to non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory).

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Montereau-Fault-Yonne

Montereau-Fault-Yonne, or simply Montereau, is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

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Neuchâtel

Neuchâtel, or Neuchatel; (neu(f) "new" and chatel "castle" (château); Neuenburg; Neuchâtel; Neuchâtel or Neufchâtel)The city was also called Neuchâtel-outre-Joux (Neuchâtel beyond Joux) to distinguish it from another Neuchâtel in Burgundy, now Neuchâtel-Urtière.

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Neustria

Neustria, or Neustrasia, (meaning "western land") was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks.

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Orbe

Orbe (Urba; Orbach) is a municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud.

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Orléans

Orléans is a prefecture and commune in north-central France, about 111 kilometres (69 miles) southwest of Paris.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pepin of Landen

Pepin I (also Peppin, Pipin, or Pippin) of Landen (c. 580 – 27 February 640), also called the Elder or the Old, was the Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia under the Merovingian king Dagobert I from 623 to 629.

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Pepin the Short

Pepin the Short (Pippin der Kurze, Pépin le Bref, c. 714 – 24 September 768) was the King of the Franks from 751 until his death.

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Poitiers

Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west-central France.

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Rado (mayor of the palace)

Rado (or Radon), a brother of Audoin/Ouen and son of Saint Authaire (Audecharius), was the mayor of the palace of Burgundy from 613 to 617.

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Reccared I

Reccared I (or Recared; Reccaredus; Recaredo; 559 – 31 May 601 AD; reigned 586–601) was Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania.

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Reims

Reims (also spelled Rheims), a city in the Grand Est region of France, lies east-northeast of Paris.

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Rigunth

Rigunth (or Rigundis) (c. 569–after 589) was a Frankish princess, daughter of the Merovingian King Chilperic I and Fredegund.

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Rouen

Rouen (Frankish: Rodomo; Rotomagus, Rothomagus) is a city on the River Seine in the north of France.

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Septimania

Septimania (Septimanie,; Septimània,; Septimània) was the western region of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed under the control of the Visigoths in 462, when Septimania was ceded to their king, Theodoric II.

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Sichilde

Sichilde (ca. 590–627) was a Frankish queen consort in 618–627; married to Clotaire II.

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Sigebert I

Sigebert I (c. 535 – c. 575) was a frankish king of Austrasia from the death of his father in 561 to his own death.

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Sigebert II

Sigebert II (601–613) or Sigisbert II, was the illegitimate son of Theuderic II, from whom he inherited the kingdoms of Burgundy and Austrasia in 613.

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Soissons

Soissons is a commune in the northern French department of Aisne, in the region of Hauts-de-France.

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Theudebert II

Theudebert II (586-612), King of Austrasia (595–612 AD), was the son and heir of Childebert II.

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Theuderic II

Theuderic II (also Theuderich, Theoderic, or Theodoric; in French, Thierry) (587–613), king of Burgundy (595–613) and Austrasia (612–613), was the second son of Childebert II.

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Toledo, Spain

Toledo is a city and municipality located in central Spain; it is the capital of the province of Toledo and the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha.

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Tours

Tours is a city located in the centre-west of France.

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Troyes

Troyes is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in north-central France.

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Vitry-en-Artois

Vitry-en-Artois is a commune and in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Hauts-de-France region of France.

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Vitry-sur-Seine

Vitry-sur-Seine is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France.

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Warnachar II

Warnachar (sometimes numbered Warnachar II; in modern French, Warnachaire or Garnier) was the mayor of the palace of Burgundy (617-626) and briefly Austrasia (612-617).

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Witteric

Witteric (Witerico; Portuguese and Galician: Viterico; 565 – 610 AD; reigned 603–610) was the Visigoth King of Hispania, Septimania and Galicia.

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Chlotar II, Chlotarius II, Chlotarius II Francorum Rex, Clotaire II, Clotaire II of Neustria, Clotaire II of the Franks, Clothaire II, Clothar II, Haldetrude.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlothar_II

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