Chilperich I. VON NEUSTRIEN Frankenkönig [7919] ¹⁸⁹⁰

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  General Notes:

Mittelalter-Genealogie:
3 Ehen, 10 Kinder (3 marriages, 10 children)
"Chilperich wurde auf der Jagd auf Anstiften der Fredegunde ermordet." (Chilperich was murdered while hunting at the instigation of Fredegunde.)

1. oo Audovera
um 540 † 580 ermordet (killed)
Kids:
- Theudebert † 575 gefallen (killed in war)
- Merowech, Unter-König (under-king), † 577 ermordet (von Fredegunde) (killed by Fredegunde)
- Chlodwig, Unter-König zu Tours (under-king)† 580 ermordet (von Fredegunde) (killed by Fredegunde)
- Basine ab 580 Nonne in der Abtei Poitiers (nun)

2. oo Galsuintha, Tochter des Westgoten-König Athanagild, um 556 † 567 erdrosselt (strangled)

3. oo Fredegunde
um 545 † 597
Kids:
- Rigundis (Rigunth) †
- Theuderich 583 † 583
- Chlothar II. 584 † Herbst 629

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Wikipedia-

Chilperic I (c. 539 \endash September 584) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of the Frankish king Clotaire I and Queen Aregund.

Life
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. 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. His eldest brother Charibert received Paris, the second eldest brother Guntram received Burgundy with its capital at Orléans, and Sigebert received Austrasia. On the death of Charibert in 567, Chilperic's estates were augmented when the brothers divided Charibert's kingdom among themselves and agreed to share Paris.

Not long after his accession, however, he was at war with Sigebert, with whom he would long remain in a state of\emdash at the very least\emdash antipathy. Sigebert defeated him and marched to Soissons, where he defeated and imprisoned Chilperic's eldest son, Theudebert. The war flared in 567, at the death of Charibert. Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's new lands, but Sigebert defeated him. Chilperic later allied with Guntram against Sigebert (573), but Guntram changed sides and Chilperic again lost the war.

When Sigebert married Brunhilda, daughter of the Visigothic sovereign in Spain (Athanagild), Chilperic also wished to make a brilliant marriage. He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera, and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegund. He accordingly dismissed Fredegund, and married Brunhilda's sister, Galswintha. 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. 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.

In 578, Chilperic sent an army to fight the Breton ruler Waroch II of the Bro-Wened along the Vilaine. The Frankish army consisted of units from the Poitou, Touraine, Anjou, Maine, and Bayeux. The Baiocassenses (men from Bayeux) were Saxons and they in particular were routed by the Bretons. 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 evidenced by Venantius Fortunatus's celebration of it in a poem.

Most of what is known of Chilperic comes from The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours. Gregory detested Chilperic, calling him "the Nero and Herod of his time" (VI.46): he had provoked Gregory's wrath by wresting Tours from Austrasia, seizing ecclesiastical property, and appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics. Gregory also objected to Chilperic's attempts to teach a new doctrine of the Trinity.

Chilperic's reign in Neustria 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 he wrote verse (modelled on that of Sedulius); he attempted to reform the Frankish alphabet; and he worked to reduce the worst effects of Salic law upon women.

In September 584, while returning from a hunting expedition at his royal villa of Chelles, Chilperic was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant.

Family
Chilperic I's first marriage was to Audovera. They had five children:

Theudebert (killed at battle 573).
Merovech (killed by a servant at his request in 577), married the widow Brunhilda (his aunt by marriage) and became his father's enemy
Clovis (assassinated by Fredegund in 580).
Basina (d. aft. 590), nun, led a revolt in the abbey of Poitiers
Childesinda (died young from dysentery)
His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children.

His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund in about 568 produced six more legitimate offspring:

Rigunth (born c. 569 \endash aft. 589), betrothed to Reccared but never married.
Chlodebert (c. 570/72 \endash 580), died young.
Samson (c. 573 \endash late 577), died young.
Dagobert (c. 579/80 \endash 580), died young.
Theuderic (c. 582 \endash 584), died young.
Clotaire (born before September 584 \endash died 18 October 629), Chilperic's successor in Neustria, later sole king of the Franks.


When Clotaire I died in 561, his kingdom was divided, in accordance with Frankish custom, among his four sons: Sigebert became king of the northeastern portion, known as Austrasia, with its capital at Rheims, to which he added further territory on the death of his brother, Charibert, in 567 or 568; Charibert himself had received the kingdom centred on Paris; Guntram received the Kingdom of Burgundy with its capital at Orléans; and the youngest son, the aforementiond Chilperic, received Soissons, which became Neustria when he received his share of Charibert's kingdom. Incursions by the Avars, a fierce nomadic tribe related to the Huns, caused Sigebert to move his capital from Rheims to Metz. He repelled their attacks twice, in 562 and c. 568.
Most of what is known of Chilperic comes from The History of the Franks by Gregory of Tours. Gregory detested Chilperic, calling him "the Nero and Herod of his time" (VI.46): he had provoked Gregory's wrath by wresting Tours from Austrasia, seizing ecclesiastical property, and appointing as bishops counts of the palace who were not clerics. Gregory also objected to Chilperic's attempts to teach a new doctrine of the Trinity.

Chilperic's reign in Neustria 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 he wrote verse (modelled on that of Sedulius); he attempted to reform the Frankish alphabet; and he worked to reduce the worst effects of Salic law upon women.

In September 584, while returning from a hunting expedition to his royal villa of Chelles, Chilperic was stabbed to death by an unknown assailant.

(His son, Clothar, died on 18 October 629 at age 45, and was buried, like his father, in the Saint Vincent Basilica of Paris, later incorporated in the Saint- Germain -des- Prés).

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Title Of Nobility: King of Neustria, between 561 and 584,. ¹⁸⁹¹

2. Clan: House of Merovingians, on an unknown date,. ¹⁸⁹¹

3. Title Of Nobility: Roi de Neustria, between 561 and 584, in Kingdom of Neustria, Gaul, Frankish Empire. ¹⁸⁹¹

Chilperich married Frédégonde DE NEUSTRIE [7920] [MRIN: 5793], daughter of Brunulphe Ier Dit De Cambrai D'ARDENNES [7921] and Chrotechilde OF THE OSTROGOTHS [7922]. (Frédégonde DE NEUSTRIE [7920] was born in 543 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardie, Francia,¹⁸⁹⁰ died on 8 December 597 in Paris, Île-de-France, France ¹⁸⁹⁰ and was buried in 597 in Saint Denis Basilique, Seine-Saint-Denis, Île-De-France, France ¹⁸⁹⁰.)