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CHARIBERT (d. 567)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 859 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARIBERT (d. 567)  , king of the Franks, was the son of Clotaire I . On Clotaire's
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death in 561 his estates were divided between his sons, Charibert receiving Paris as his capital, together with
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Rouen,
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Tours,
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Poitiers,
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Limoges,
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Bordeaux and Toulouse . Besides his wife, Ingoberga, he had unions with Merofleda, a wool-carder's daughter, and Theodogilda, the daughter of a neatherd . He was one of the most dissolute of the Merovingian kings, his early death in 567 being brought on by his excesses . (C .

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