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Chilperic King of the Burgundians at Valence II



Preferred Parents:
Father: Gundicaire King of Busrgundy , b. 385 in Burgundy   d. 437
Mother: Hrothildis Von Westgoten , b. 385   d. 436

Family 1: Caretene Agrippina de Bourgondie,    b. ABT 461 in France    d. 493 in France
  1. Clothilde de Bourgogne Queen of the Franks, b. 475 in Vitry, Nièvre, Burgundy, France     d. 6 MAR 545 in Tours, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
Family 2: Agrippina ,    b. 452    d. 493 in Lyon, Kingdom of Bourgogne, Gaul, Frankish Empire
Sources:
  1. Title: Wikiwand, List of the Kings of Burgundy
    Author: Britannica (1922). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature. Original from Harvard University: Encyclopædia Britannica. p. 821.
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_kings_of_Burgundy;
    Note: Kings of the Burgundians Gebicca (late 4th century – c. 407) Gundomar I (c. 407 – 411), son of Gebicca Giselher (c. 407 – 411), son of Gebicca Gunther (c. 407 – 436), son of Gebicca Flavius Aëtius moves the Burgundians into Sapaudia (Upper Rhône Basin). Gunderic/Gundioc (436–473) opposed by Chilperic I, brother of Gundioc (443–c. 480) division of the kingdom among the four sons of Gundioc: Gundobad (473–516 in Lyon, king of all of Burgundy from 480), Chilperic II (473–493 in Valence) Godomar I (473–486 in Vienna) Godegisel (473–500, in Vienne and Geneva) Sigismund, son of Gundobad (516–523) Godomar or Gundimar, son of Gundobad (523–534)
  2. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
    Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BURGUNDY%20KINGS.htm#Gundobaddied516A;
    Note: c) CHILPERICH (-murdered 486). Gregory of Tours names (in order) "Gundobad, Godegisel, Chilperic and Gundomar" as the four sons of Gundioc King of the Burgunds[19]. The Liber Historiæ Francorum names "Gundeveus rex Burgundionum…ex genere Athanaric regis" and his four sons "Gundobadus, Godeghiselus, Chilpricus et Godmarus", recording that Gundobad killed his brother Chilperich[20]. He succeeded his father in 473 as CHILPERICH King of Burgundy, at Lyon. He became magister militum in Gaul during the reign of Emperor Glycinius, exercising authority between Lyon and Geneva[21]. m ---. The name of Chilperich´s wife is not known. Gregory of Tours records that Chilperich's wife was drowned by her brother-in-law King Gundobad, after he tied a stone around her neck[22]. The Liber Historiæ Francorum records the same event[23]. King Chilperich had four children: i) son (-murdered 486). Gregory of Tours records that the two sons of Chilperich died at the same time as their father[24]. ii) son (-murdered 486). Gregory of Tours records that the two sons of Chilperich died at the same time as their father[25]. iii) SEDELEUBE [Chroma] ([481]-). iv) CHROTECHILDIS [Clotilde/Rotilde[30]] ([480]-
  3. Title: Wikipedia
    Author: The abridged translation of Gregory of Tour's History of the Franks made by Earnest Brehaut in 1916.
    Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilperic_II_of_Burgundy;
    Note: Chilperic II (Latin: Chilperikus; c. 450–493 AD) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death. Before that he co-ruled with his father Gondioc beginning in 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his younger brothers Godegisel, Gundobad, and Godomar; he ruled from Valentia Julia (Valence) and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon. Sometime in the early 470s Chilperic was forced to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire by the magister militum Ecdicius Avitus. In 475 he probably sheltered an exiled Ecdicius after the Visigoths had obtained possession of the Auvergne. After his brother Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he turned on Chilperic. In 493 Gundobad assassinated Chilperic and drowned his wife, then exiled their two daughters, Chroma, who became a nun, and Clotilde, who fled to her uncle, Godegisel. When the Frankish king, Clovis I, requested the latter's hand in marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline. Clovis and Godegisel allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn-out civil war.
  4. Title: Wikipedia
    Author: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. online [http://en.wikipedia.org], , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilperic_II_of_Burgundy.
  5. Title: Birth of France
    Author: Katharine Scherman, The Birth of France: Warriors, Bishops and Long-Haired Kings (New York, New York: Ramdom House, Inc., 1987), Page 110.
  6. Title: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Chilperic_II_of_Burgundy
    Publication: Name: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Chilperic_II_of_Burgundy;

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