Chlotar I

Chlotar I
born с 500?
died late 561, Compiègne, Fr.

Merovingian king of Soissons from 511 and of the whole Frankish kingdom from 558.

(See Merovingian dynasty.) The youngest son of Clovis I, he shared in the partition of his father's kingdom in 511 and extended his lands by murder and intrigue. He launched campaigns against the Burgundians (523, 532–34), the Visigoths (532, 542), and the Thuringians (с 531). A ruthless and brutal ruler, Chlotar put to death his rebellious son Chram with his family (560).

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▪ Merovingian king
born c. 500?
died , late 561, Compiègne, Fr.

      Merovingian king of Soissons from 511 and of the whole Frankish kingdom from 558, who played an important part in the extension of Frankish hegemony.

      The youngest of Clovis I's sons, Chlotar shared in the partition of his father's kingdom in 511, receiving the old heartlands of the Salian Franks in modern northern France and Belgium. After the death of his brother, Clodomir, in 524, he murdered his nephews and shared the kingdom of Orléans with his two remaining brothers, Childebert I and Theodoric I. The deaths without heirs of the latter's grandson, Theodebald, in 555 and of Childebert in 558 brought all the Frankish lands finally under Chlotar's sway.

      Chlotar's principal campaigns were against the Burgundians in 532–534 (when he and Childebert finally imposed Frankish rule), against the Visigoths in 541 (with Childebert), and against the Thuringians in 531 (with Theodoric); he married the Thuringian princess, Radegunda. In 535 he joined the other Merovingian kings in a military treaty with Justinian. Chlotar was ruthless and brutal, and the family rivalries and sometimes open hostilities in which he figured prominently were characteristic of Merovingian history; in 560 he even had his rebellious son, Chram, together with Chram's family, put to death. Gregory of Tours (Gregory of Tours, Saint) describes Chlotar, wracked with fever on his deathbed, asking—whether in outrage or in admiration—what manner of heavenly king it was who would bring great rulers to their deaths in such a fashion.

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