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Sign in to saveSaint Gontrand ( 532 in Soissons – 28 March 592 in Chalon-sur-Saône), also called Gontran, Gontram, Guntram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, was the king of the Kingdom of Orléans from AD 561 to AD 592. He was the third-eldest and second-eldest-surviving son of Chlothar I and Ingunda. On his father's death in 561, he became king of a fourth of the Kingdom of the Franks, and made his capital at Orléans. The name "Gontrand" denotes "War Raven".
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- 0532-01-01
- Died
- 0592-03-28
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- St. Gontrand
- Royalty.image
- File:Tiers_de_sou_de_Gontran_frapp%C3%A9_%C3%A0_Chalon-sur-Sa%C3%B4ne.jpeg
- Royalty.caption
- A tremissis bearing Guntram's effigy and minted at Chalon-sur-Saône
- Royalty.succession
- King of Orléans
- Royalty.reign
- 561–592
- Royalty.predecessor
- Chlothar I
- Royalty.successor
- Childebert II
- Royalty.house
- Merovingian
- Royalty.birth_date
- 532
- Royalty.birth_place
- Soissons
- Royalty.death_date
- 28 March
- Royalty.death_place
- Chalon-sur-Saône
- Royalty.father
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 532
- Died
- 28 March 592
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Soissons
- Place of death
- Chalon-sur-Saône
- Father
- Chlothar I
- Mother
- Ingund
- Sibling
- Chlothsind
- Occupation
- monarch
- Position held
- king of Franks
- Family
- Merovingian dynasty
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Saint Gontrand ( 532 in Soissons – 28 March 592 in Chalon-sur-Saône), also called Gontran, Gontram, Guntram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, was the king of the Kingdom of Orléans from AD 561 to AD 592. He was the third-eldest and second-eldest-surviving son of Chlothar I and Ingunda. On his father's death in 561, he became king of a fourth of the Kingdom of the Franks, and made his capital at Orléans. The name "Gontrand" denotes "War Raven".
==Personal life== King Gontrand had something of that fraternal love which his brothers lacked; the preeminent chronicler of the period, St. Gregory of Tours, often called him "good king Gontrand", as noted in the quotation below from the former's Decem Libri Historiarum, in which St. Gregory discussed the fate of Gontrand's three marriages: