More Merovingian connections to Provence: Charibert I (c. 517–567) was the Merovingian King of Paris, the second-eldest son of Chlothar I and Ingund. He was evidently a Morman: He had a wife, Ingoberga, and several concubines: sisters Merofleda and Marcovefa, a wool-carder's daughters. A third concubine or wife was Theudechild, a cowherd's daughter. She bore Charibert his only son, who died in infancy.
His family life resulted in his excommunication.
His surviving queen, Theudechild, proposed a marriage with his brother Guntram. Unfortunately a council held at Paris ten years earlier had banned such marriages as incestuous. (In opposition to Old Testament law, by which a man was supposed to marry his brother's widow.)
Guntram instead put Theudechild into a nunnery in Arles. She went unwillingly.
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About Me
- Kristen Marie Hannum
- I finished writing my first historical fiction novel, The Magician, in April 2009. I'm now at work on something completely different, Caveman, about a Denver dentist running for governor.
I wrote for The Catholic Sentinel for 16 years, and love the Church anyway, in particular the Church of Archbishop Romero and Dorothy Day; of Rerum Novarum and Catholic Relief Services. As one woman once told me, "It's a matter of heart, not head."
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