{"slug": "fredegund", "label": "Fredegund", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredegund", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230898", "qid": "Q230898", "description": "Frankish queen", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [568, 597], "span_label": ["568 CE", "597 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "chilperic-i", "label": "Chilperic I", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "paris", "label": "Paris", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "chlothar-ii", "label": "Chlothar II", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "neustria", "label": "Neustria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "gregory-of-tours", "label": "Gregory of Tours", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aquitaine", "label": "Aquitaine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brunhilda-of-austrasia", "label": "Brunhilda of Austrasia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theuderic-ii", "label": "Theuderic II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theudebert-ii", "label": "Theudebert II", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 568, "year_label": "568 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, repels a second attack from the Avars. His half brother Chilperic I strangles his wife Galswintha at the instigation of his mistress Fredegund.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751316#Europe", "title": "568", "revid": 1364751316, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 575, "year_label": "575 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Franks under Sigibert I pursue his half brother Chilperic I, and conquer the cities Poitiers and Tournai. While he is proclaimed new king of Neustria by the nobles, Sigibert is assassinated at Vitry-en-Artois (Northern Gaul) by hirelings of Fredegund.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367658531#Europe", "title": "575", "revid": 1367658531, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 580, "year_label": "580 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Gregory of Tours is brought before a council of bishops, on charges of slandering the Frankish queen Fredegund (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747518#Religion", "title": "580", "revid": 1364747518, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 584, "year_label": "584 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September", "text": "September – King Chilperic I is stabbed to death while returning from a hunt near Chelles, after a 23-year reign over a territory extending from Aquitaine, to the northern seacoast of what later will be France. His wife Fredegund, who has paid for his assassination, seizes his wealth, flees to Paris with her son Chlothar II, and persuades the nobles to accept him as legitimate heir while she serves as regent, continuing her power struggles with Guntram, king of Burgundy, and her sister Brunhilda, queen mother of Austrasia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754048#Europe", "title": "584", "revid": 1364754048, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 589, "year_label": "589 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "King Childebert II attempts to impose taxes on the citizens of Tours; Bishop Gregory successfully opposes this by claiming state immunity instituted by Fredegund.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654394#Europe", "title": "589", "revid": 1366654394, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 597, "year_label": "597 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Queen Fredegund defeats her old rival Brunhilda of Austrasia, who supports the claims of her grandsons Theudebert II and Theuderic II to the Frankish throne, against those of Fredegund's son Chlothar II. She dies a few months later at Paris and is buried in the Basilica of Saint Denis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755884#Europe", "title": "597", "revid": 1364755884, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 597, "year_label": "597 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Fredegund, queen and regent of Neustria", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755884#Deaths", "title": "597", "revid": 1364755884, "section": "Deaths"}}]}