Audovera Queen of the Franks

• Preferred Name: Audovera Queen of the Franks
  
• Gender: F
  
• Strangled+by+Fredegond,+concubine+of+Chilperic+I: 580
  
• Birth: 30 APR 535 in Kingdom of Neustria, Gaul, Frankish Empire at LATI: N7.423 LONG: E0.5925
  
• FSID: GZHJ-CJY
  
• Death: NOV 580 in Kingdom of Neustria, Gaul, Frankish Empire at LATI: N7.423 LONG: E0.5925 with note: ermordet
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: House of Merovingian
  
• Repudiated+in+about+566+by+Chilperic+and+placed+in+a+monastery+to+endure+15+years+of+solo+confinemen: BET 566 AND 581
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
  
  AUDOVERE, daughter of --- (-murdered 580). Gregory of Tours names Audovera as one of the earlier consorts of King Chilperich[319]. Herimannus records that "Audoveram reginam commatrem suam [=Geislundam]" was strangled by her husband's concubine "Fridegundis"[320]. Gregory of Tours records that the mother of Clovis was "murdered in the most cruel fashion"[321], dated to late 580 from the context.
  King Chilperich I & his first wife had five children:
  
  1. THEODEBERT [Thibert] ([548/51]-killed 573, bur Angoulême). Gregory of Tours names (in order) Theudebert, Merovech and Clovis as the sons of King Chilperich and Audovera[327]. Gregory records that Theodebert was captured at Soissons by his uncle King Sigebert I and imprisoned for a year at Ponthion before being sent back to his father[328]. He led his father's troops against his uncle in 573, devastated Touraine, but was killed by Duke Godogisel and Boso[329].
  
  2. MEROVECH (-murdered Thérouanne 577, bur 584 Paris, Saint-Germain-des-Prés). Gregory of Tours names (in order) Theudebert, Merovech and Clovis as the sons of King Chilperich and Audovera[330]. Merovech was held in custody following his marriage, tonsured and sent to the monastery of Anille at Le Mans, but sought refuge in the church of St Martin at Tours before being murdered after he went into hiding in the area of Reims[331]. The Marii Episcopi Aventicensis Chronica records that "Meroveus filius Hilperici" was killed in 578[332]. m (Rouen after Easter 576) as her second husband, BRUNECHILDIS [Brunequilda/Brunechilde] of the Visigoths, widow of SIGEBERT I King of the Franks, daughter of ATANAGILDO King of the Visigoths & his wife Gosvinta --- ([545/50]-Renève-sur-Vingeanne Autumn 613, bur Autun, abbaye de Saint-Martin). Gregory records that Merovech married his uncle's widow in Rouen soon after Easter in the year following her first husband's murder[333].
  
  3. CHLODOVECH [Clovis] (-murdered Noisy-le-Grand end 580, bur Noisy-le-Grand, transferred 584 to Paris, Saint-Germain-des-Prés). Gregory of Tours names (in order) Theudebert, Merovech and Clovis as the sons of King Chilperich and Audovera[334]. Gregory records that he was driven out of Tours and fled to Bordeaux before succeeding in returning to his father[335]. He also records that Clovis's father, at the suggestion of Frédégonde, sent Clovis to Berny in the hope that he would die of the same disease as his younger half-brothers, and that Clovis was later murdered on the orders of Frédégonde[336]. Gregory of Tours records that his body was found and reburied in Paris St Vincent by King Gontran[337].
  
  4. BASINA (-after 590). Gregory of Tours records that the sister of Clovis was "tricked by Fredegund's servants and persuaded into entering a nunnery…where she remains to this day"[338], dated to late 580 from the context, although it is not certain that this relates to Basina. Gregory names Basina as the daughter of King Chilperich and Audovera whom her father confined in a nunnery in Poitiers, when recording that in 584 her father considered sending her to Spain as the bride for Recared, in place of her half-sister[339]. Gregory also records that she became a nun at the convent of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers, but was involved in the revolt against abbess Leubovera[340].
  
  5. CHILDESWINDIS [Childesinde] ([567]-). The Liber Historiæ Francorum names "Childesinda" as the daughter of King Chilperich & his first wife[341].

1. Merovech de Neustria, b. um 0550 in Soissons, Kingdom of Neustria, Frankish Empire     d. 577 in Therouanne, Kingdom of Neustria, Gaul, Frankish Empire