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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".

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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
Chlothar I
Royalty.mother
Ingund
Royalty.spouses
VenerandaMarcatrudeAustregilde
Royalty.issue
GundobadClotharChlodomer

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Instance of
human
Gender
male
Place of birth
Soissons
Place of death
Chalon-sur-Saône
Mother
Ingund
Sibling
Chlothsind
Occupation
monarch
Position held
king of Franks
Noble title
king of Franks
Image
Gontran et Childebert II.JPG
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Commons category
Gontran
date of death
0592-03-28
canonization status
Catholic saint
date of birth
0532-01-01
described by source
Pauly–Wissowa
feast day
March 28
place of burial
Chalon-sur-Saône
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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:

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