CHILPERIC II OF BURGUNDY

'Chilperic
II' (c. 450 – 493) was the King of Burgundy from 473
until his death, though initially co-ruler with his father from 463. He
began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his
brothers Godegisel, Godomar, and Gundobad; he ruled from
Valence and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva,
Vienne, and Lyon. They were all sons of Gundioch. Sometime
in the early 470s Chilperic forced to submit to the authority of the
Roman Empire by the ''magister militum'' Ecdicius Avitus.
In 475 he probably sheltered a fleeing Ecdicius after the Visigoths
invaded the Auvergne. After his brother
Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he
turned on Chilperic. In 493 he drowned his wife Caretena and
assassinated him, exiling his two daughters, Chroma,
who became a nun, and Clotilda, who fled to her uncle Godegisel.
When the Frankish king Clovis I requested the latter's hand in
marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline, but Clovis and Godegisel
allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn out civil war.

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★ Gregory of Tours.
''Historia
Francorum''. translated Earnest Brehaut, 1916.