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  • One Andovere, who is called queen of France, because she was the wife of a certain Chilperic, who reigned over Soissons, was stigmatized by ecclesiastical justice, censured, degraded, and divorced, for having borne her own child to the baptismal font.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Yet Chilperic possessed himself of the place and merely took the precaution of having a shrine, with a quantity of relics, which he had carried as a safeguard at the head of his troops, in hopes that the protection of these new patrons would shelter him from the punishment due to his perjury.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • It was thus that the kings Gontran, Sigebert, and Chilperic divided the states of Clotaire, and agreed to possess Paris in common.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • But this law, which was suitable enough to the owners of the gloomy, secluded, and turreted mansions, in the days of Chilperic, is detestable when the case relates wholly to the division of family property in a civilized and well-governed city.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • It is also said that the ruler or governor Chilperic, lord of the province of Soissonnais, whom they call king of France, divorced his queen Andovere, or Andove; and here follows the reason of this divorce.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Cherebert, Sigebert, and Chilperic, had several wives at a time.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Basina was the daughter of King Chilperic I of Neustria, and was Chrodield's cousin, with the exact same relationship to the convent's founders.

    Medieval Women I Adore - Installment 2: Chrodield and Basina Heo 2006

  • People in the royal family had a nasty habit of dying around Fredegunda; all three of her step-sons, her husband's second wife, her brother-in-law, and eventually Chilperic himself.

    Medieval Women I Adore - Installment 2: Chrodield and Basina Heo 2006

  • Gundobad put his brother Chilperic to the sword, and drowned his wife by tying a stone to her neck.

    The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964

  • Athanagilde, king of the Visigoths in Spain, and Chilperic her elder sister Galsvinda; but after her death he took to wife Fredegonda, who had been his mistress, and was strongly suspected to have contrived the death of the queen by poison.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

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