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See also:FREDEGOND (Fredigundis) (d. 597) , Frankish See also: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 I., with a violent See also:passion. At her instigation he repudiated his first wife Audovera, and strangled his second, Galswintha, Queen See also:Brunhilda's See also:sister. A few days after this See also:murder Chilperic married Fredegond (567). This woman exercised a most pernicious See also:influence over him. She forced him into See also:war against See also:Austrasia, in the course of which she procured the assassination of the victorious king See also:Sigebert (5'75); she carried on a See also:malignant struggle against Chilperic's sons by his first wife, Theodebert, Merwich and See also:Clovis, who all died tragic deaths; and she per-
See also:FREDERICIA
sistently endeavoured to secure the See also:throne for her own See also:children. Her first son See also:Thierry, however, to whom See also:Bishop Ragnemod of See also:Paris stood godfather, died soon after See also:birth, and Fredegond tortured a number of See also:women whom she accused of having bewitched the See also:child. Her second son also died in See also:infancy. Finally, she gave birth to a child who afterwards became king as See also: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, since in her See also:husband she lost her See also:principal supporter.
Henceforth Fredegond did all in her See also:power to gain the See also:kingdom for her child. Taking See also: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 at Paris, she appealed to King See also:Guntram of See also:Burgundy, who took Clotaire under his See also:protection and defended him against his other See also:nephew, See also: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 Fredegond governed the western kingdom. She endeavoured to prevent the See also: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 the kingdom of See also:Neustria at the expense of Austrasia, and to this end seized some cities near Paris and defeated Theodebert at the See also:battle of Laffaux, near See also:Soissons. Her See also:triumph, however, was See also:short-lived, as she died quietly in her See also:bed in 597 soon after her victory.
See V. N. Augustin Thierry, Recits See also:des temps merovingiens (See also:Brussels, 184o); Ulysse See also:Chevalier, Bio-bibliographie (2nd ed.), s.v. " Fredegonde." (C.
End of Article: FREDEGOND (Fredigundis) (d. 597)
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