![]() ![]() ![]() With the unions of Galswintha to Chilperic, and Brunhild to Sigebert, life could have been like a fairytale or a folk story if the times and people were kinder. This was the fractured environment-with several independent Merovingian kings vying for primacy in the Frankish sphere of influence-that the Visigoth princesses were marrying into. At the time of the marriages, Chilperic and Sigebert (with two other brothers, Charibert and Guntram) had succeeded their father as kings of different sections of the Frankish Empire. 551/554-567), while the grooms were Chilperic and Sigebert, both sons of the Merovingian Dynasty’s King Chlotar I of the Franks (r. The brides were Galswintha and Brunhild, daughters of King Athanagild of the Visigoths (r. ![]() In 566 or 567, two Visigoth sisters married two Frankish brothers. ![]()
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