Daily Medieval

The sons of Clovis saw Burgundy as a target. Sigismund of Burgundy (c.475 - 524) became king in 516. His father, Gundobad, had slain Chilper...

Clodoald (522 - c.560CE) was (along with Theodebald and Gunthar) one of the three sons of King Chlodomer of Orléans. When Chlodomer was kill...

When King Hermanfrid of Thuringia offered part of Thuringia to Theuderic if Theuderic would help him defeat Hermanfrid's brother and co-...

Radegund (c.520 – 13 August 587) was another wife of Clothar I . She was a princess, daughter of Bertachar, a king of Thuringia who co-ruled...

The father of the four sons who were mentioned fighting each other's divided Frankish kingdoms yesterday was Clothar I (one of the four...

Yesterday's post mentioned that the Franks fell into civil war and became less of a threat to Lombardy . The Frankish Kingdom had a lon...

Childebert was the third of the four sons of Clovis I , who united all the Frankish tribes in Gaul for the first time, and then had it divid...

There flourished around 540 CE a ruler in Britany called Conomor the Cursed, so notorious for his cruelty that some think he provided the se...

Chilperic I speaking to Bishop Gregory Georgius Florentius (539-593) was born into a distinguished Gallo-Roman family in Arverni in s...

I have mentioned St.-Denis in Paris as the first church in the Gothic style. That project was a re -building of an earlier church—a churc...