Audovera of UNKNOWN #76770

ABT 533 - 580
BIRTH ABT 533
DEATH 580, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France

Historical Notes

Some time before 567, Audovera and Fredegund - then a servant of Audovera, but later to become another wife of Chilperic - prepared for the baptism of Childesinda while Chilperic was away. Fredegund learnt that it was forbidden for a mother to receive her own child in her arms following a baptism, due to a canon law forbidding marriage between parents and godparents. Fredegund arranged the events of the baptism such that Audovera unknowingly broke this taboo. On Chilperic's return, Fredegund informed him of what Audovera had done. Chilperic committed Audovera to a convent in a rage. Fredegund later had her murdered in 580 to coincide with the assassination of Clovis and the exile of Basina.

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