See also:

• FREDEGOND (Fredigundis) (d. 597)

FREDEGOND (Fredigundis) (d. 597)  , Frankish See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

queen . Origin-ally a serving-woman, she inspired the Frankish See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king, See also:

• CHILPERIC

Chilperic I., with a violent See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

passion . At her instigation he repudiated his first wife Audovera, and strangled his second, Galswintha, Queen See also:

• BRUNHILDA (Brunechildis)

Brunhilda's See also:

• SISTER

sister . A few days after this See also:

• MURDER

murder Chilperic married See also:

• FREDEGOND (Fredigundis) (d. 597)

Fredegond (567) . This woman exercised a most pernicious See also:

• INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence over him . She forced him into See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war against See also:

• AUSTRASIA

Austrasia, in the course of which she procured the assassination of the victorious king See also:

• SIGEBERT (d. 575)

Sigebert (5'75); she carried on a See also:

• MALIGNANT (Lat. malignus, evil-disposed, from maligenus)

malignant struggle against Chilperic's sons by his first wife, Theodebert, Merwich and See also:

• CLOVIS [Chlodovech] (c. 466-511)

Clovis, who all died tragic deaths; and she per- See also:

• FREDERICIA (FRIEDERIc1A)

FREDERICIA sistently endeavoured to secure the See also:

• THRONE

throne for her own See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children . Her first son See also:

• THIERRY

Thierry, however, to whom See also:

• BISHOP (A.S. bisceop, from Lat. episcopus, Gr. irio-Korros, " overlooker " or " overseer ")
• BISHOP, ISABELLA (1832-1904)
• BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (1786-1855)

Bishop Ragnemod of See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris stood godfather, died soon after See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth, and Fredegond tortured a number of See also:

• WOMEN

women whom she accused of having bewitched the See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child . Her second son also died in See also:

• INFANCY

infancy . Finally, she gave birth to a child who afterwards became king as See also:

• CLOTAIRE (CHLOTIIACHAR)

Clotaire II . Shortly after the birth of this third son, Chilperic himself perished in mysterious circumstances (584) . Fredegond has been accused of complicity in his murder, but with little show of See also:

• PROBABILITY (Lat. probabilis, probable or credible)

probability, since in her See also:

• HUSBAND

husband she lost her See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal supporter . Henceforth Fredegond did all in her See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power to gain the See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom for her child .

Taking See also:

• REFUGE

refuge at the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of Notre See also:

• DAME
• DAME (through the Fr. from Lat. domina, mistress, lady, the feminine of dominus, master, lord)

Dame at Paris, she appealed to King See also:

• GUNTRAM, or GONTRAN (561-592)

Guntram of See also:

• BURGUNDY

Burgundy, who took Clotaire under his See also:

• PROTECTION

protection and defended him against his other See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew, See also:

• CHILDEBERT

Childebert II., king of Austrasia . From that See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time until her See also:

• DEATH

death Fredegond governed the western kingdom . She endeavoured to prevent the See also:

• ALLIANCE

alliance between King Guntram and Childebert, which was cemented by the pact of Andelot; and made several attempts to assassinate Childebert by sending against him hired bravoes armed with poisoned scramasaxes (heavy single-edged knives) . After the death of Childebert in 595 she resolved to See also:

• AUGMENT (Lat. augere, to increase)

augment the kingdom of See also:

• NEUSTRIA

Neustria at the expense of Austrasia, and to this end seized some cities near Paris and defeated Theodebert at the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Laffaux, near See also:

• SOISSONS

Soissons . Her See also:

• TRIUMPH (triumphus)

triumph, however, was See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short-lived, as she died quietly in her See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed in 597 soon after her victory . See V . N . Augustin Thierry, Recits See also:

• DES

des temps merovingiens (See also:

• BRUSSELS (Fr. Bruxelles, Flem. Brussel)

Brussels, 184o); Ulysse See also:

• CHEVALIER, ALBERT (1861– )
• CHEVALIER, MICHEL (1806-1879)
• CHEVALIER, ULYSSE (1841– )

Chevalier, Bio-bibliographie (2nd ed.), s.v . " Fredegonde." (C .