Audovera
Sign in to saveAudovera (–580) was the first wife or mistress of Chilperic I, king of Neustria.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Audovera
- Royalty.image
- File:Albert Maignan-Audovère Repudiée.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Painting of Audovera's repudiation by Albert Maignan.
- Royalty.succession
- Queen consort of Neustria
- Royalty.reign
- 561 – 567
- Royalty.birth_date
- 533
- Royalty.death_date
- 580
- Royalty.death_place
- Le Mans
- Royalty.consort
- yes
- Royalty.spouse
- Chilperic I
- Royalty.issue
- Theudebert of SoissonsMerovechClovisChildesindaBasina
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Audovera (–580) was the first wife or mistress of Chilperic I, king of Neustria.
They had five children. Theudebert, killed in battle in 575 by Guntram Boso during the interminable conflict between Chilperic and his brothers. Merovech of Soissons, married the widow Brunhilda, becoming his father's enemy. Killed by his servants on his own orders in 578. Clovis of Soissons, assassinated by Fredegund in 580. Childesinda, mentioned but once in the Liber Historiae Francorum as the infant whose botched baptism led to Audovera's dismissal. Committed to the same nunnery as her mother. Basina, nun, banished to a convent in 580. She later led a revolt in the abbey of Poitiers in 589.
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