Born ‎ 540 at Burgundy, France, died ‎ 614 at Reneve, Burgundy, France‎, 73 or 74 years
Name: Brunehaut, Queen of METZ Princess of the Visigoths
Surname: Metz
Given Name: Brunehaut, Queen of
NSFX: Princess of the Visigoths
_AKA: Brunhilda
Sex: F
Birth: 0540 in Burgundy
Death: 0614 in Burgundy of torn apart, tied to a wild horse
Reference Number: Foster,Min
_UID: AA4E3494A7E4FF46976AC50D709C652F03A4
Note:
!Mother of Childebert, King of Metz. Signed a treaty concluded by Gontran on 28 Nov 587 at Andelot, near Langres, with her son (nephew of King Gontran of Burgundy). [Nations of the World - France, Vol. 1, p. 135]

FOSTER, MINOR, NEWLIN, BURR, WAITE LINES

!A princess of that race of Gothic kings who, in Southern Gaul and in Spain, had understood and admired the Roman civilization and had striven to transfer the remains of it to the newly-formed fabric of their own dominions. She, transplanted to a home among the Franks of Austrasia, the least Roman of all the barbarians, preserved there the ideas and tastes of the Visigoths of Spain, who had become almost Gallo-Romans; she clung stoutly to the effacacious exercise of the royal authority; she took a practical interest in the public works, highways, bridges, monuments, and the progress of material civilization; the Roman roads in a short time received and for a long while kept in Austrasia
the name of Brunehaut's causeways; there used to be shown, in a forest near Bourges, Brunehaut's castle, Brunehaut's tower at Etampes, Brunehaut's stone near Tournay, and Brunehaut's fort near Cahors. In the royal domains and wherever she went she showed abundant charity to the poor, and many ages after her death the people of those districts still spoke of Brunehaut's alms. She
liked and protected men of letters, rare and mediocre indeed at that time, but the only beings, such as they were, with a notion of seeking and giving any kind of intellectual enjoyment; and they in turn took pleasure in celebrating her name and her deserts. Brunehaut was detested by the majority of the Austrasian chiefs, whose sturdy and trubulent independence she was continually
fighting against. In 614, after 39 years of wars, plots, murders, and political and personal vicissitudes, from the death of her husband Sigebert I and under the reigns of her son Theodebert and her grandsons Theodebert II and Thierry II, Queen Brunehaut, at the age of 80, fell into the hands of her mortal enemy, Clotaire II, son of Fredegonde, now sole king of the Franks. After having grossly insulted her, he had her paraded, seated on a camel in from of his whole army, and then ordered her to be tied by the hair, one foot, and one arm to the tail of an unbroken horse, that carried her away, and dashed her in pieces as he galloped and kicked, beneath the eyes of the ferocious
specatators. [Nations of the World - France, Vol. 1, p. 139]

Dau of Athanagild, King of the Visigoths, and Galswinthe, Lady of the Vandals; m. Sigebert I, King of Austrasia; mother of Carloman, Ingunda, Chodoswintha and Childebert III. [Michael J. Thissen 1
Change Date: 19 Mar 2003 at 17:13:02

Father: Athanagild, King of the VISIGOTHS b: ABT 0500 in Spain

Marriage 1 Sigibert I, King of AUSTRASIA b: 0535 in of Metz
Children
Ingunda, Princess of AUSTRASIA b: 0555 in Austrasia
Chodoswintha, Princess of AUSTRASIA b: 0560 in Austrasia
Theodebert of METZ b: ABT 0565
Childebert II, king of the FRANKS b: 0571 in of Metz
Carloman of AUSTRASIA b: ABT 0572 in Austrasia

Marriage 2 Merovee, Prince of NEUSTRIA b: ABT 0535

Sources:
Repository:
Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Nations of the World Series: France
Author: Guizot, M. and Madame Guizot de Witt; translated by Robert Black; supplement by Mayo W. Hazeltine
Publication: Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1898
Page: Vol. 1, pp. 135-139
From 'Glick/Foster Ancestry' at Rootsweb.com.


ID: I13317
Name: Brunehaut von die Visigoths , Queen of Metz, Princess of the Visigoths
_AKA: Brunichilde
Sex: F
Birth: 0534/0539 in , , Spain
Death: 0613/0614 in Renève, Bourgogne, France
Ancestral File 9GBN-4Q
Note:
FROM: www.britannica.com

Brunhild

b. c. 534
d. 613, Renève, Burgundy [now in France]
also spelled BRUNHILDA, BRUNHILDE, OR BRUNECHILDIS, French BRUNEHAUT, queen of the Frankish kingdom of Austrasia, daughter of the Visigothic king Athanagild, and one of the most forceful figures of the Merovingian Age.
In 567 Brunhild married Sigebert I, king of Austrasia, changing her religion from Arianism to Roman Catholicism. In the same year, her sister Galswintha married Sigebert's half brother Chilperic I, king of the western part of the Frankish territory, but in 567 or 568, at the instigation of his concubine Fredegund, Chilperic had Galswintha murdered. Prompted by Brunhild, Sigebert then exacted Galswintha's marriage settlement (Bordeaux, Limoges, Quercy, Bhc)arn, and Bigorre) as retribution from Chilperic. When Chilperic tried to recover this territory, war broke out between him and Sigebert (573). At first it ran in Sigebert's favour, but in 575 he was assassinated and Brunhild was imprisoned at Rouen. There, however, Merovech, one of Chilperic's sons, went through a form of marriage with her (576). Chilperic soon had this union dissolved, but Brunhild was allowed to go to Metz in Austrasia, where her young son Childebert II had been proclaimed king. There she was to assert herself against the Austrasian magnates for the next 30 years.
After Childebert's death (595 or 596), Brunhild failed to set herself up as guardian over Childebert's elder son, Theodebert II of Austrasia, and thus stirred up against him his brother Theodoric II, who had succeeded to Burgundy. Theodebert was finally overthrown in 612, but Theodoric died soon afterward (613), whereupon Brunhild tried to make the latter's eldest son, the 12-year-old Sigebert II, king of Austrasia. The Austrasian magnates, reluctant to endure her tyrannous regency, appealed to Chlotar II of Neustria against her. Brunhild tried in vain to enlist the help of the tribes east of the Rhine, then fled to Burgundy, but was handed over to Chlotar at Renève (northeast of Dijon). She was tortured for three days, bound on to a camel and exposed to the mockery of the army, and finally dragged to death at a horse's tail (autumn 613).
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Father: Athanagild von die Visigoths ><, King of the Visigoths b: ABT 0504 in , , Germany
Mother: Gosuinte von die Visigoths ><, Queen of the Visigoths b: ABT 0515 in , , Germany

Marriage 1 Sigebert von die Franks I, King of Metz b: ABT 0535 in of Metz, Neustria, Gaul
Married: 0566/0568 in of Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
Children
Childebert von die Franks II, King of Austrasia and Burgundy b: ABT 0570 in of Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
Ingonde von die Franks , Princess of Metz b: ABT 0567 in of Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
Clodosvinthe von die Franks , Princess of Metz b: ABT 0572 in of Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France

Marriage 2 Mérovée von die Franks , Prince of the Franks b: ABT 0546 in of Soissons, Picardie, France
Married: ABT 0576 in Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France

Sources:
Repository:
Name: www.FamilySearch.org -- Internet
35 N West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA

Title: Ancestral File®
Publication: 1998, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
From 'Ancestors and Family of Edward Fairchild' at Rootsweb.com.