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Galswintha
Merovingian queen
Also known as: Galswinthe
Galswintha (born c. 540, Spain—died 568, Neustria) was the daughter of Athanagild, the Visigothic king of Spain, and Goisuintha; sister of Brunhild, queen of Austrasia; and wife of Chilperic I, the Merovingian king of Neustria. Galswintha and Chilperic were married at Rouen in 567, but soon afterward she died under suspicious circumstances, apparently at the instigation of Chilperic’s mistress Fredegund, who then married him. Galswintha’s death aroused the enmity of her sister Brunhild, wife of King Sigebert I of Austrasia, against Chilperic and precipitated 40 years of warfare between the Frankish kingdoms of Austrasia and Neustria.
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