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  Ancestors and Family of Galswintha
French GALSWINTHE, daughter of Athanagild, Visigothic king of Spain; sister of Brunhild, queen of Austrasia; and wife of Chilperic I, the Merovingian king of Neustria.
Galswintha's death aroused the enmity of her sister Brunhild, wife of King Sigebert I of Austrasia, against Chilperic and precipitated 40 years of warfare between the Frankish kingdoms of Austrasia and Neustria.
Galswintha married Chilperic I, King of Soissons, son of Chlotar I, King of the Franks and Aregund, in 567 in Rouen, France.
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 Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Princess Galswintha VISIGOTHS ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
He asked Athanagild for Brunhilda's sister; Galswintha came to Soissons, and Chilperic loved her, for she had brought great treasures.
Chilperic returned to the arms of Fredegunda; Galswintha proposed to go back to Spain; Chilperic had her strangled (567)..."
Galswintha married King Chilperic NEUSTRIA, I, son of King Chlotar FRANKS, I and Queen Ingonde FRANKS, about 566.
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  GALSWINTHA Articles Galswintha (540-568) was the daught
Galswintha (540-568) was the daughter of Athanagild, Visigothic king of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula, comprising modern Spain and Portugal]; the sister of Brunhilda, queen of Austrasia; and the wife of Chilperic I, the Merovingian king of Neustria.
Galswintha and Chilperic were married at Rouen in 567, but soon afterwards she was murdered at the instigation of Chilperic's mistress Fredegund, who then married him.
Her death aroused the enmity of her sister Brunhilda against Chilperic, bringing about 40 years of warfare between the Frankish kingdoms of Austrasia and Neustria.
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  Chilperic I - LoveToKnow 1911
He had already repudiated his first wife, Audovera, and had taken as his concubine a serving-woman called Fredegond.
But he soon tired of his new partner, and one morning Galswintha was found strangled in her bed.
This murder was the cause of long and bloody wars, interspersed with truces, between Chilperic and Sigebert.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Chilperic_I   (385 words)

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