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Birth:          ABT  517 
Death:          Dec  567 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charibert_I
Charibert I (French: Caribert; Latin: Charibertus; c. 517 - December 567) was the 
Merovingian King of Paris, the second-eldest son of Chlothar I and Ingund. His elder 
brother was Gunthar, who died sometime before their father's death.

In 556, Chlothar sent Charibert and his next youngest brother Gunthram against their 
stepmother Chunna and their younger stepbrother Chram who was in revolt. Chramn 
was hiding out on Black Mountain in the Limousin. Negotiations failed and the two 
armies prepared for battle. A thunderstorm prevented any engagement and Chramn 
sent forged letters to his brothers, falsely reporting the death of their father. Charibert 
and Guntram immediately returned to Burgundy to secure their positions.

After the actual death of Chlothar in 561, the Frankish kingdom was divided between 
his sons in a new configuration. Each son ruled a distinct realm, which was not 
necessarily geographically coherent but could contain two unconnected regions, from 
a chief city after which his kingdom is called. Charibert received Neustria (the region 
between the Somme and the Loire), Aquitaine, and Novempopulana with Paris as his 
capital. His chief cities were Rouen, Tours, Poitiers, Limoges, Bordeaux, Toulouse, 
Cahors, and Albi. Guntram received Burgundy, then Sigebert received Austrasia 
(including Rheims) with his capital at Metz, and the youngest brother Chilperic 
received a compact kingdom with Soissons as its capital.

Charibert married Ingoberga, of unknown parentage. They had four children:
Blithide of Cologne (538-603), possibly married to Ansbertus, Gallo-Roman senator
Chrodobertus (b. 595)
Bertha, Queen Consort of Kent
Charibert de Haspengau (555–636), possibly an ancestor of the later Capetian dynasty 
of French kings.

Charibert also had several concubines. By Merofleda, a wool-carder's daughter, and 
her sister Marcovefa, he had daughters: Berteflede (a nun in Tours) and Clothilde (a 
nun in St. Croix, Poitiers). By Theodogilda (or Theudechild), a cowherd's daughter; 
Charibert had a son who died in infancy. His brutal behavior resulted in his 
excommunication,[1] the first ever of a Merovingian king.[citation needed]

Charibert was scarcely more than king at Paris when he married his daughter Bertha to 
Æthelberht, the pagan King of Kent. She took with her Bishop Liudhard as her private 
confessor. Her influence in the Kentish court was instrumental in the success of St. 
Augustine of Canterbury's mission in 597.

Though Charibert was eloquent and learned in the law, he was one of the most 
dissolute of the early Merovingians. He was excommunicated, and his early death in 
567 was brought on by his excesses. He was buried in Blavia castellum, a military fort 
in the Tractatus Armoricani. At his death his brothers divided his realm between them, 
agreeing at first to hold Paris in common. His surviving queen (out of four), 
Theudechild, proposed a marriage with Guntram, though a council held at Paris in 557 
had outlawed such matches as incestuous. Guntram decided to house her more safely, 
though unwillingly, in a nunnery at Arles.

The main source for Charibert's life is Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks (Book 
IV, 3,16,22,26 and IX, 26), and from the English perspective Bede's Ecclesiastic 
History of the English People.

Parents
____ Clothaire I (Clotaire I) (Chlotar) (ABT  497 -  561)
____ Chrusine (Ingonde) (ABT  499 - )

Siblings
____ Charibert (ABT  517 - Dec  567)
____ Siegbert I ( 526 -  575)

Marriage To ____ Ingoberga (ABT  520 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Ingoberga ABT  520 - 
OF HESBAYE Charibert (ABT  550 - AFT  636)
OF PARIS Bertha (ABT  565 - BEF  616)

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