6th-century births

pope

Emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 565 to 574 (520-578)

6th-century missionary, archbishop, and saint

Sasanian general and political leader (died 591)

Byzantine historian

Fredegund or Fredegunda (Latin: Fredegundis; French: Frédégonde; – 8 December 597) was the queen consort of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of Neustria. Fredegund served as regent during the minority of her son Chlothar II from 584 until 597.

Wife of Abu Sufyan

thumb|200px|right|The main Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms in the 7th century. Æthelfrith (died ) was King of Bernicia from c. 593 until his death around 616 AD at the Battle of the River Idle. He became the first Bernician king to also rule the neighbouring land of Deira, giving him an important place in the development and the unification of the later kingdom of Northumbria. Reigning from the late 6th century until his death, he was known for his military campaigns against the Britons and his victory over the Gaels of Dál Riata. His most famous victory came at the Battle of Chester, where he decisively

Byzantine empress

second Archbishop of Canterbury

Mellitus (; died 24 April 624) was the first bishop of London in the Saxon period, the third archbishop of Canterbury, and a member of the Gregorian mission sent to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons from their native paganism to Christianity. He arrived in 601 AD with a group of clergy sent to augment the mission, and was consecrated as Bishop of London in 604. Mellitus was the recipient of a famous letter from Pope Gregory I known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, preserved in a later work by the medieval chronicler Bede, which suggested the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons be undertaken gradually

Vistahm or Bistam (also transliterated Wistaxm, wsthm), was a Parthian dynast of the Ispahbudhan house, and maternal uncle of the Sasanian king of kings of Iran, Khosrow II (). Vistahm helped Khosrow regain his throne after the rebellion of another Parthian noble Bahram Chobin, of House of Mihran, but later led a revolt himself, and ruled independently over a region which encompassed the entire Iranian East until he was defeated by Khosrow and his allies.

Christian martyr

king of Essex

Byzantine general

thumb|De laudibus Iustini Augusti, published in Antwerp in 1581 Flavius Cresconius Corippus (floruit 565) was a Roman African epic poet who flourished under East Roman emperors Justinian I and Justin II. His major works are the epic poem Iohannis, a panegyric called "Panegyric of Anastasius", and a poem in praise of the Emperor Justin II, In laudem Iustini minoris. Corippus was probably the last important Latin author of Late Antiquity.

King of Dál Riata

Avar khagan

Empress consort of Tiberius II Constantine

Shirin (; died 628) was wife of the Sasanian emperor Khosrow II (). In the revolution after the death of Khosrow's father Hormizd IV, the General Bahram Chobin took power over the Persian empire. Shirin fled with Khosrow to Syria, where they lived under the protection of Byzantine emperor Maurice.

King of Dál Riata in the mid-6th century

Byzantine courtier; the wife of a consul and a lady-in-waiting to the Byzantine empress Theodora; Christian saint

6th-century king of the Picts

Sahabah

Leontia (, fl. 610) was an empress of the Eastern Roman Empire as the wife of Phocas.

Visigoth bishop and chronicler

6th-century monarch

French bishop and saint

Lombardy duke

King of the Kingdom of Gwynedd

Aregund, Aregunda, Arnegund, Aregonda, or Arnegonda ( 515/520–580) was a Frankish queen. She is the earliest known queen of Francia.

Duke of Spoleto

king of the Goguryeo dynasty of Korea

Artabanes (, Armenian: Artawan, from Parthian Artawân, fl. 538–554) was an Byzantine general of Armenian origin who served under Justinian I (). Initially a rebel against Byzantine authority, he fled to the Sassanid Persians but soon returned to Byzantine allegiance. He served in Africa, where he won great fame by killing the rebel general Guntharic and restoring the province to imperial allegiance. He became engaged to Justinian's niece Praejecta, but did not marry her due to the opposition of the Empress Theodora. Recalled to Constantinople, he became involved in a failed conspiracy against

King of Dál Riata

Egyptian saint

ajaw of Palenque

Byzantine general

Comentiolus (, Komentiolos; died 602) was a prominent Eastern Roman (Byzantine) general at the close of the 6th century during the reign of Emperor Maurice (). He played a major role in Maurice's Balkan campaigns, and fought also in the East against the Sassanid Persians. Comentiolus was executed in 602 after the Byzantine army rebelled against Maurice and Emperor Phocas () usurped the throne.

King of Deira

King of Dál Riata

brother of Byzantine emperor Heraclius

bishop of Vienne

brother of the Byzantine Emperor Maurice

Italian noble

6th-century monarch

Byzantine general

King of Lazica

Byzantine saint

140px|thumb|right|The Column of Phocas, erected by Smaragdus in the [[Roman Forum.]] Smaragdus () was Exarch of Ravenna from 585 to 589 and again from 603 to 611.

King of the Picts

King of Rheged

Göktürk ruler

Chinese politician and historian (564–637)

Arabian poet and warrior

King of the Picts

thumb|Illustration of Gordiya in the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp Gordiya (also spelled Gurdiya and Kurdiyah) was an influential Iranian noblewoman from the House of Mihran, who was first the sister-wife of the distinguished military leader Bahram Chobin, then the wife of the Ispahbudhan dynast Vistahm, and ultimately the wife of the last prominent Sasanian emperor, Khosrow II.

thumb|Stiftskirche St. Arnual Arnoald, also called Arnoldus or Arnual ( – ), was a Bishop of Metz between 601 and 609 or 611, the successor of his uncle Agilulf. He was the son of Ansbertus, a senator, and his wife Blithilde, whose parents were Charibert I and Ingoberga.

Byzantine general and statesman

Waldalenus, or Wandalenus (late 6th – early 7th century), dux in the region between the Alps and the Jura, in the Frankish Kingdom of Burgundy, was a Frankish magnate who served as mayor of the Austrasian palace at Metz from 581, during the minority of Childebert II.