Feud of Fredegund and Brunhild
568–613 · Event
Four decades of murder and civil war between the Merovingian queens Fredegund of Neustria and Brunhild of Austrasia, ignited by the strangling of Brunhild's sister Galswintha. It consumed the Frankish kingdoms until Clothar II executed Brunhild in 613.
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