Charibert, I I 1a

Birth Name Charibert, I I
Gender male
Age at Death about 50 years, 11 months

Narrative

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Charibert (c.517 - December 567), king of the Franks, was the second eldest son of Clotaire I and Ingonde. (Their eldest son was Gunthar, who died sometime before his father's death.)

On Clotaire's death in 561, his estates were divided among his sons in a new configuration, Charibert receiving the kingdom between the Somme and the Loire, with Paris as his capital, together with Rouen and Tours, with the Aquitaine and Novempopulana to its south, with the cities of Poitiers, Limoges, Bordeaux, and Toulouse, Cahors and Albi.

Though the election of bishops in Merovingian territories was subject to manipulation and veto by the king, once consecrated, the bishops were in control within the cities, though perhaps not all as firmly as at Tours, where bishop Gregory, invoking the wrath of Saint Martin, was able to extract a coronation promise on oath from Charibert:

Thus hampered in raising funds (largely as gifts in kind anyway) and under such obligations not to create innovative policy or law, the Merovingian kings' sphere of operations was severely limited.

Besides his wife, Ingoberga, with whom he had a daughter, Berthe, or Aldeberge, (539-640), he had unions with Merofleda, a wool-carder's daughter and her sister (precipitating his ban of excommunication, the first ever levelled at a Merovingian king), and Theodogilda, the daughter of a neatherd (cowherd). Charibert was scarcely more than "king at Paris" when he married his daughter Berthe to Aethelbert, the pagan king of Kent, who probably came to his throne in A.D. 560. She took with her,Bishop Liudhard, as her private confessor. According to Bede, Aethelbert's supremacy in 597 stretched over all the petty English kingdoms as far as the Humber; whether this is an exaggeration or not, it was at any rate sufficient to guarantee the safety of Augustine when in 597 the mission of Augustine landed in Thanet. The Christian mission was received at first with some hesitation by the king, who gave Augustine a dwelling-place in Canterbury, and the Christian conversion, first of Kent, then of other Anglo-Saxons proceeded from there, thanks to Charibert's daughter.

Though Charibert was eloquent and learned in the law, he was one of the most dissolute of the Merovingian kings, his early death in 567, under a ban of excommunication, being brought on by his excesses. He was buried at the abbey of Saint-Vincent (later Saint-Germain-des-Pres, then outside Paris. At his death his brothers Guntram, Sigebert I, and Chilperic I shared his realm, 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 as recently as 557 had outlawed such tradition as incestuous. Guntram decided to house her more safely, though unwillingly, in a nunnery at Arles.

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 517 Reims, Marne, Loire-Alantique, Neustria, France    
Death 567-12-00 Paris, Seine, France    

Age: 50y

Christening 9B39B57C2EFC4083B73D12BF1E86B77B8DCD 17 JAN 2015    

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father de Soissons, Chlothar Iabout 498561-11-29
Mother von Thuringia, Ingundabout 500587-08-13
         Charibert, I I about 517 567-12-00
    Brother     Sigebert, I I about 528 575
    Brother     , Guntram
    Brother     , Gunthar
    Brother     , Childeric
    Sister     , Chlothsind

Source References

  1. Brian Starr: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=starrancestors2&id=I140645 Starr Ancestors with Saints
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        ID: I140645
        Name: Walia
        Surname: Walia
        Sex: M
        _UID: FCD647A9490E4ECF813A9293942D74509B12
        Change Date: 17 JAN 2015
        Birth: ABT 395 in Thuringen, Danube Valley, Germany
        Title: King of the Visigoths
        Death: Y

         

         

        Father: Alaric b: 370 in Peuce, Thuringen, Danube Valley, Germany
        Mother: Aelia Galla Placidia b: ABT 370 in Cauca, Coca-Segovia, Spain

        Marriage 1 Hrothildis b: ABT 400 in Romania
        Children
        Has Children Caratene Walia b: ABT 425 in Thuringen, Danube Valley, Germany
        Has Children Bisinus von Thuringia b: ABT 435 in Thuringen, Danube Valley, Germany

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