Husband Charles Martel King of the Franks
AKA: Charles "the Hammer" King of the Franks
Born: 676 - Herstal, Liege, Austrasia [Belgium]
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Died: 22 Oct 741 - Ciersy Sur Oise, France
Buried: - Monastery of St. Denis, Paris, Seine, France
Father: Pepin II of Heristal, Duke of Austrasia (Abt 0635-0714)
Mother: Alphaida ( - )
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Other Spouse: Swanachild (Abt 0691- )
Wife Rotrude of Treves
AKA: Rotrou
Born: 690
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Died: 724
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Father: Saint Leutwinus Bishop of Treves ( - )
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1 M Pepin III "the Short" King of the Franks
AKA: Pippin the Short King of the Franks
Born: 714 - Austrasia, Flanders (now Belgium)
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Died: 24 Sep 768 - St. Denis, Paris, Seine, France
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Spouse: Bertrada of Laon ( -0783)
2 F Hiltrud
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Died: 754
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Spouse: Odilo I Duke of Bavaria ( - )
3 M Carloman
Born: abt 0711
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Died: 754
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4 F Landrade
AKA: Landres
Born: Abt 713
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Spouse: Sigrand Count of Hesbania (Abt 0709- )
Marr: Abt 709
5 F Auda
AKA: Alane, Aldana
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Spouse: Thierry IV Count of Autun and Toulouse ( - )
Research Notes (Husband)
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 50-11 (Rotrou)
FamilySearch.org Compact Disc #94 Pin #91488 (submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer) has spouse Swanachild (mother of Pepin III).
Source: familysearch.org (Kevin Bradford) has spouse Bathrude.
From http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593871722:
"Charles is particularly remembered in history for winning the battle of Tours in 732. The battle, near Poitiers on 11 October, ended the invasion of a 90,000 man Moorish [Saracen] army led by the Yemenite Abd ar-Rahman. The Moors had crossed the Pyrenees by 720 when they captured Narbonne. After sacking and burning Bordeaux, they defeated an army under Eudes, Duke of Aquitaine (RIN # 4056). Attracted by its riches, the Moors marched on Tours, but were defeated by Charles (afterwards called Charles the Hammer) then 44 years of age. Abd ar-Rahman is killed and the invaders retreated across the Pyrenees to Spain where they will not be driven from until 1492. In 735, Charles conquered Burgundy, adding its lands to the Kingdom of the Franks.
"!The People's Chronology; 65"
Research Notes (Wife)
Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 50-11
Husband Childebert I King of Paris
AKA: Choldebaud King of Cologne
Born: Bef 440 - Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
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Died: Bet 483 and 488
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Father: Clovis I King of the Franks (Abt 0466-0511)
Mother: Clotilde Queen of the Franks (0475-0545)
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1 M Sigebert I - King of Cologne
Born: Bef 460
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Died: 509
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Spouse: Vultrogothe - Princess of Orleans ( - )
Marr: Bef 460
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FamilySearch.org Compact Disc #94 Pin #316468 (submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer) - has as King of Cologne.
Also Wikipedia - Clovis I
Husband Childebert II King of Austrasia and King of Burgundy
Born: 570
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Died: 595
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Father: Sigebert I of Austrasia (0535-Bet 0575)
Mother: Brunhilda of Austrasia (Abt 0543-0613)
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Source: Wikipedia - Childebert II - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 .
Childhood
When his father was assassinated in 575, Childebert was taken from Paris by Gundobald, one of his faithful lords, to Metz (the Austrasian capital), where he was recognized as sovereign. He was then only five years old, and during his long minority the power was disputed between his mother Brunhilda and the nobles.
Chilperic II , king at Paris , and the Burgundian king Guntram, sought an alliance with Childebert, who was adopted by both in turn. Because Guntram was lord of half of Marseille , the district of Provence became a centre of a brief dispute between the two.
Guntram allied with Dynamius of Provence , who instigated the canons of the Diocese of Uzès to elect their deacon Marcellus, son of the senator Felix, as bishop in opposition to their already-elected bishop Jovinus , a former governor of Provence. While Jovinus and Theodore, Bishop of Marseille , were travelling to the court of Childebert, Guntram had them arrested. Dynamius, meanwhile, blocked Gundulf, a duke of an important senatorial family and Childebert's former domesticus , from entering Marseille on behalf of Childebert. Eventually he was forced to yield, though he later arrested Theodore again and had him sent to Guntram. Childebert replaced him in Provence by Nicetius (585). Despite his revolt, Childebert formally restored Dynamius to favour on 28 November 587 .
[edit ] Heir, king and war leader
But with the assassination of Chilperic in 584 and the dangers occasioned to the Frankish monarchy by the expedition of Gundovald in 585, Childebert threw himself unreservedly into the arms of Guntram. By the Treaty of Andelot of 587 , Childebert was recognised as Guntram's heir, and with his uncle's help he quelled the revolts of the nobles and succeeded in seizing the castle of Woëwre . Many attempts were made on his life by Fredegund , wife of Chilperic, who was anxious to secure Guntram's inheritance for her son Clotaire II .
On the death of Guntram in 592, Childebert annexed the kingdom of Burgundy, and even contemplated seizing Clotaire's estates and becoming sole king of the Franks. He died, however, in 595. Childebert II had had relations with the Byzantine Empire , and fought on several occasions in the name of the Emperor Maurice , against the Lombards in Italy , with limited success.
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Husband Childebrand Duke of Swabia
AKA: Chidebrand Duke of Swabia
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1 F Ermentrude
Born: Abt 743 - Swabia, Germany
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Spouse: Isenbart Lord of Altdorf (Abt 0741- )
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Source: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593875371
Husband Childeric
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Father: Clotaire I "le Vieux" King of Soissons and King of the Franks (0497-0561)
Mother: Ingonde (Abt 0500- )
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Source: Wikipedia - Chlothar I
Husband Chilperic I King of Soissons and King of Neustria
Born: Abt 539 - France
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Died: Sep 584
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Father: Clotaire I "le Vieux" King of Soissons and King of the Franks (0497-0561)
Mother: Aregund (Abt 0501- )
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Other Spouse: Audovera ( - )
Wife Fredegund
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1 M Chlothar II "le Grand" King of Neustria, King of the Franks
AKA: Chlothar "le Jeune" King of Neustria, King of the Franks, Lothair II King of Neustria, King of the Franks
Born: Abt 563 - France
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Died: 629 - Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Spouse: Haldertrude (0575-0604)
Death Notes (Husband)
Stabbed when returning from the chase to his royal villa of Chelles.
Research Notes (Husband)
King of Neustria (or Soissons) 561-584. 3rd wife of Chilperic I FamilySearch.org Compact Disc #94 Pin #105753 FamilySearch.org Compact Disc #94 Pin #105744 (submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer) has name as Reccared I, King of the Visigoths, b. abt 544 in Spain, d. June 601. FamilySearch.org Compact Disc #94 Pin #105746 (submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer) has Chlodosind (Chodoswintha) - Princess of Austrasia (b. 550 in Austrasia). FamilySearch.org Compact Disc #94 Pin #99002 (submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer) has b. 571 in Bavaria. FamilySearch.org Compact Disc #94 Pin #99003 (submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer). Geer notes "May have been the daughter of Daughter of Gisulf - Duke of Lombard" Source: Wikipedia - Saint Arnulf
Source: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593873575 has title King of Neustria, b. abt 523, d. 584.
Per Wikipedia - Chlothar I - he was King of Soissons, succeeding Chlothar I (Clotaire I).
From Wikipedia - Chilperic I :
Chilperic I (c. 539 - September 584 ) was the king of Neustria (or Soissons ) from 561 to his death. He was one of the sons of Clotaire I , sole king of the Franks , and Aregund .
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 , his 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-at the very least-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 Sigbert 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 of the Vannetais 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.[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.
He was detested by Gregory of Tours , who dubbed him as the Nero and Herod of his time (History of the Franks book vi.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.
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.
...Family
Chilperic's first marriage was to Audovera. They had four children:
His short second marriage to Galswintha produced no children.
His concubinage and subsequent marriage to Fredegund produced four more legitimate offspring:
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^ Howorth, 309.
Sources
Research Notes (Wife)
Source: Wikipedia - Chlothar II
Husband Chintila Visigothic King of Hispania
AKA: Chinthila - King of the Visigoths
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Died: 640
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Father: Suintila Visigothic King of Hispania (Abt 0585-0633)
Mother: Theodora Princess of the Visigoths (Abt 0601- )
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1 M Tulga King of the Visigoths
AKA: Fulk King of the Visigoths
Born: Bef 620 - Spain
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Died: 642 - France
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(submitted by Samuel Taylor "Sam" Geer) has d. 640.
From Wikipedia - Chintila :
Chintila was Visigothic King of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula ) (636 -639 /640 ). He succeeded Sisenand in a time of weakness and reigned until his death.
He was elected and confirmed by a convention of bishops and nobles in accordance with the 75th canon of the IV Council of Toledo . With his election, nothing changed and instability reigned. He never solved the many problems which plagued his time in office and, as the chroniclers of the age tell us, this included rebellions in Septimania and Gallaecia . In the three years of his reign, he permitted the bishops wide authority and they were the monarchs de facto, if not de jure.
He dedicated his time to councils, the V Council of Toledo in June 636 and the VI Council of Toledo in June 638 . They coverred many topics and legistaled many new regulations. The king had to be chosen from among the nobility; never a tonsurado (cleric), member of the servil classes (peasants), or foreigners. They dictated the penalties for insurrection and determined that property acquired justly by the king could not be confiscated by his successor. Finally, they outlawed noncatholics within the frontiers of the kingdom, which resulted in many forced conversions.
Chintila died in 639 or 640 of natural causes and was followed by Tulga .
Husband Reccared I Visigothic King of Hispania
AKA: Recared King of the Visigoths
Born: Abt 544 - Spain
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Died: Jun 601
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Father: Liuvigild King of the Visigoths (Abt 0519-0586)
Mother: Theodosia of Cartagena (Abt 0525- )
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Wife Chlodosind Princess of Austrasia
AKA: Chodoswintha Princess of Austrasia, Clodoswindis
Born: Abt 550 - Austrasia <France>
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Father: Sigebert I of Austrasia (0535-Bet 0575)
Mother: Brunhilda of Austrasia (Abt 0543-0613)
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1 M Suintila Visigothic King of Hispania
AKA: Swinthila King of the Visigoths
Born: Abt 585 - Spain
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Died: 633
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Spouse: Theodora Princess of the Visigoths (Abt 0601- )
2 M Liuva II King of the Visigoths
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Also http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593876473 has name as Recared.
From Wikipedia - Reccared I :
Reccared (or Recared) I (586-601) was Visigothic King of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula ). His reign marked a climactic shift in history, with the king's renunciation of traditional Arianism in favor of Catholic Christianity in 587.
Reccared was the younger son of King Liuvigild by his first wife. Like his father, Reccared had his capital at Toledo . The Visigothic kings and nobles were traditionally Arian Christians , while the Hispano-Roman population were Trinitarian Catholics . The Catholic bishop Leander of Seville was instrumental in converting the elder son and heir of Liuvigild, Hermenegild , to Trinitarian Christianity. Leander supported him in a war of rebellion and was exiled for his role.
When King Liuvigild died, within a few weeks of April 21, 586, St. Leander was swift to return to Toledo. The new king had been associated with his father in ruling the kingdom and was acclaimed king by the Visigothic nobles without opposition. Guided by his Merovingian kinship connections and by his Arian stepmother Goiswinth , he sent ambassadors to greet her grandson Childebert II and to his uncle Guntram , the Frankish king of Burgundy , proposing peace and a defensive alliance. Guntram refused to see them.
In January 587 , Reccared renounced Arianism for Catholicism , the single great event of his reign and the turning point for Visigothic Hispania . Most Arian nobles and ecclesiastics followed his example, certainly those around him at Toledo, but there were Arian uprisings, notably in Septimania , his northernmost province, beyond the Pyrenees , where the leader of opposition was the Arian bishop Athaloc , who had the reputation among his Catholic enemies of being virtually a second Arius . Among the secular leaders of the Septimanian insurrection, the counts Granista and Wildigern appealed to Guntram of Burgundy, who saw his opportunity and sent his dux Desiderius. Reccared's army defeated the Arian insurgents and their Catholic allies with great slaughter, Desiderius himself being slain...
The information for the rest of Reccared's reign is scanty. St. Isidore of Seville , bishop Leander's brother, praises his peaceful government, clemency, and generosity: standard encomia. He returned various properties, even some privates ones, that had been confiscated by his father, and founded many churches and monasteries. St. Gregory the Great , writing to Reccared in Aug. 599 (Epp. ix. 61, 121), extols him for embracing the true faith and inducing his people to do so, and notably for refusing the bribes offered by Jews to procure the repeal of a law against them. He sends him a piece of the True Cross , some fragments of the chains of St. Peter , and some hairs of St. John the Baptist .
Reccared was succeeded by his youthful son Liuva II .
Notes
^ St. Isidore, Historia Gothorum.
^ Aloysius Ziegler, Church and State in Visigothic Spain (Washington) 1930: "Ziegler unhesitatingly characterizes the kings. as 'fanatically zealous'" (Bacharach 1973:11.
^ Notably Bernard S. Bachrach , in Early Medieval Jewish Policy in Western Europe (University of Minnesota Press) 1977; see also Bacharach, "A Reassessment of Visigothic Jewish Policy, 589-711", The American Historical Review 78.1 (February 1973), pp. 11-34.
^ Solomon Katz, The Jews in the Visigothic and Frankish Kingdoms of Gaul and Spain (Harvard University Press) 1937 gives the broad background.
^ Bacharach 1973:15.
^ Thompson, The Goths in Spain (Oxford University Press) 1969:112.
Research Notes (Wife)
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3174654&id=I593876474 gives name as Clodoswindis, b. abt 556 in France.
Husband Chrodoald of the Lombards
AKA: aDALOALD
Born: Abt 575 - Bavaria [Germany]
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Died: 624
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Father: Agilulf King of the Lombards (0547-0616)
Mother: Theudelinde of Bavaria, Queen of the Lombards (0546-0625)
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Wife Chlodosindis
Born: Abt 577
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Died: After 587
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Father: Gisulf ( - )
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1 F Fara of Bavaria
AKA: Fara Princess of the Lombards
Born: 600 - Bavaria
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Died: 641
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Spouse: Theodo IV Duke of Bavaria ( -0695)
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Wikipedia - Theodo of Bavaria - gives his dates as (575-624).
From Wikipedia - Arnulf of Metz -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnulf_of_Metz
Chlothachar later made his son Dagobert I king of Austrasia and he ruled with the help of his advisor Arnulf. Not satisfied with his position, as a bishop he was involved in the murder of Chrodoald in 624 , an important leader of the Frankish Agilolfings -family and a protégé of Dagobert.
Wikipedia - Agilofings -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agilolfings
lists him:
Agilolfings in Austrasia
Research Notes (Wife)
According to Wikipedia (Theodo of Bavaria), the mother of Fara of Bavaria was Daughter of Gisulf (b. 577). Gisulf is the name of several figures in the political history of Italy (thus not helpful). This may or may not be the same person as Chlodosindis, although the discrepancy in name of the grandparents makes it likely that Chlodosindis in incorrect.
Needs further research. Apparently a different woman from the daughter of Brunhilda & Sigebert.
Husband Chlodulf of Metz
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Father: Saint Arnulf Bishop of Metz (0582-0640)
Mother: Oda of Moselle (Abt 0586- )
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