CHILDEBERT I

chĭlˈdəbərt, d. 558, Frankish king, son of Clovis I. On his father's death (511) he and his three brothers shared equally in the Frankish kingdom. His capital was at Paris. When his brother Clodomir died (524), he and another brother Clotaire I murdered Clodomir's sons and seized his lands. With Clotaire he shared in the reconquest and partition of Burgundy and Provence (534) and unsuccessfully campaigned in Spain (542).

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Spiritual Kinship as Social Practice: Godparenthood and Adoption in the Early Middle Ages
Book by Bernhard Jussen, Pamela Selwyn; University of Delaware Press, 2000
Subjects: Adoption--Europe--History--To 1500, Kinship--Europe--History--To 1500, Social History--Medieval, 500-1500, Sponsors--Europe--History
...it perhaps because his son, Childebert, accorded (or was compelled...Andelot. When, through envoys, Childebert consulted Gunthchramn a short...wish in this treaty, then I on my side will gratify his...answer to the Gothic envoys, Childebert and Brunechildis seem to have...
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Towns and Their Territories between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Book by G. P. Brogiolo, N. Gauthier, N. Christie; Brill, 2000
Subjects: Cities And Towns, Medieval, City Planning--Europe--History, Civilization, Medieval
...nouveau siege episcopal. Par exemple, Childebert I er , roi de Paris, qui a herite...proteste si vigoureusement que Childebert est oblige de renoncer a son projet...diocese de Chartres : en 567, Sigebert I er obtient une partie de la cite...
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Early Christian Ireland
Book by T. M. Charles-Edwards; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Ireland--Church History
...descendants, first Childebert II, her son, and...father, Sigibert I. It might be thought...generation of Sigibert I and Chilperic Chlothar...was founded under Childebert. Sigibert is in...Vita S. Columbani, i. 18: Childebert II succeeds, annuente...
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The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450-751
Book by Ian Wood; Longman, 1994
Subjects: France--Church History--To 987, France--History--To 987, France--Kings And Rulers--History, Merovingians
...identifies the authors of the Pactus pro tenore pacis as Childebert I and Chlothar I. That it was correct in so doing is shown...citation of the legislation of his father and uncle. 74 If Childebert and Chlothar were indeed adding to the first sixty...
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The Spirit of Laws
Book by Charles De Secondat, Baron De Montesquieu, Jean Jacques Rousseau; Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1952
Subjects: Jurisprudence, Law--Philosophy, Political Science, State, The
...Gontram, willing to declare his nephew Childebert of age and to adopt him for his son, made use of these words: "I have put this javelin into thy hands...he added, "You see that my son Childebert is grown a man; obey him." Theodoric...
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The Continental Origins of AEthelberht's Code
Journal article by Stefan A. Jurasinski; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 80, 2001
Subjects: Anglo-Saxon literature, Common law--History
...archaic instrumental suffix -i occurring in AEthelberht cap...systematic text of Lex Salica by Childebert II in March 596: see The Convert...the convenience of the reader I reproduce here the English translation...earlier versions of this paper I would like to thank R. D. Fulk...


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Scissors or Swords?
Magazine article by Simon Coates; History Today, Vol. 49, May 1999
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval--Social aspects, Hairstyles--Social aspects
...difference. On the basis of St Pauls words in I Corinthians 11:4, long hair was considered...Normandy the Archbishop of Seez rebuked Henry I and his courtiers for their long hair, produced...their reigns, the rulers of Germany, Otto I and Otto II, had beards. These iconographical...


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encyclopedia articles on: Childebert I  - 9 results

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Childebert I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHILDEBERT I chil d b rt, d. 558, Frankish king, son of Clovis I . On his fathers death (511) he and his three brothers...Clodomir died (524), he and another brother Clotaire I murdered Clodomirs sons and seized his lands. With Clotaire...
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Childebert II
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CHILDEBERT II 570 95, Frankish king of Austrasia (575 95) and Burgundy (593 95), son of Sigebert I and Brunhilda . His mother actually ruled for him. Chaos and warfare marked his reign...
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Clotaire I
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...524 he and his brother Childebert I divided the kingdom of...In 534 Clotaire and Childebert seized and divided the...grandson (555), and of Childebert (558) made Clotaire...His sons Chilperic I and Sigebert I inherited...
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Merovingians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...when Pepin the Short deposed (751) the last Merovingian king, Childeric III. See Childebert I ; Theodoric I ; Guntram ; Chilperic I ; Sigebert I ; Childebert II . See S. Dill, Roman Society in Gaul in the Merovingian Age (1926, repr. 1966...
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Saint-Germain-Des-PrÉs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...zhermaN -da-pra, historic abbey and church of Paris, on the left bank of the Seine. It was founded (6th cent.) by Childebert I; several Merovingian kings were buried there. Both church and abbey were several times destroyed; the present church...
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