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• Name	FRANKS, Radegonde
  Prefix	Queen
  Birth	499	Soissons-Nord, Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France
  Gender	Female
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  _TAG	Temple
  Death	Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France
  Burial	St Denis, Paris, Île-de-France, France
  Person ID	I69676	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	FRANKS, King Clotaire I ,   b. May 497, Rheims, Marne, Loire-Alantique, France Rheims, Marne, Loire-Alantique, Franced. 23 Nov 561, Braine, Aisne, Picardie, France (Age 64 years)
  Marriage	Abt 538
  Family ID	F33348	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Ingonde is the sister of Aregonde, and both women were married to Clotaire. She is the mother of Charibert, Guntram, Gunthar, Chlothsind and Sigebert. BIO: Princess of Thuringian Franks. ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/THURINGIA.htm#Basinus, as of 11/1/2014 RADEGUND (Erfurt 518-Poitiers 587, bur Poitiers, basilique Sainte-Marie-hors-les-Murs). Gregory of Tours names Radegund as the orphaned daughter of Berthar[30]. The Vitæ Sanctæ Radegundis names "Radegundis natione barbare de regione Thoringa" and her "avo rege Bessino, patruo Hermenfredo, patre rege Bertechario"[31]. In a later passage, Gregory records that, after the Frankish invasion of Thuringia, Radegund formed part of the booty taken home by Clotaire I King of the Franks, who later married her[32]. The testament of Radegundis dated to [584/87] survives[33]. Gregory of Tours records the death of St Radegund on 13 Aug[34]. She was canonised, her feast day is 13 Aug[35]. m (531, repudiated) as his second wife, CLOTAIRE I [Chlothachar/Lothar] King of the Franks, son of CLOVIS I [Chlodovech] King of the Franks & his second wife Chrotechildis [Clotilde] of Burgundy ([501/02]-Soissons [30 Nov/31 Dec] 561, bur Soissons, basilique Saint-Médard). ** from 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, found at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Radegunda,_St RADEGUNDA, ST (d. 587), Frankish queen, was the daughter of Berthaire, king of the Thuringians. Berthaire was killed by his brother Hermannfried, who took Radegunda and educated her, but was himself slain by the Frankish kings Theuderich and Clotaire (529), and Radegunda fell to Clotaire, who later married her. Her piety was already so noteworthy that it was said that Clotaire had married a nun, not a queen. She left him when he unjustly killed her brother, and fled to Medardus, bishop of Poitiers, who, notwithstanding the danger of the act, consecrated her as a nun. Radegunda stayed in Poitiers, founded a monastery there, and lived for a while in peace. Here Venantius Fortunatus, the Italian poet, found a friendly reception, and two of the poems printed under his name are usually attributed to Radegunda. From him we gain a most pleasing picture of life at the monastery. The queen died on the 13th of August 587. ** from Wikipedia listing for Radegund, as of 11/1/2014 Radegund (also spelled Rhadegund, Radegonde, Radigund) (ca. 520–587) was a 6th-century Thuringian princess and Frankish queen, who founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. She is the patron saint of several churches in France and England and of Jesus College, Cambridge (whose full name "The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and the glorious Virgin Saint Radegund, near Cambridge". Life Radegund was born about 520 to Bertachar, one of the three kings of the German land Thuringia.[1] Radegund's uncle, Hermanfrid, killed Bertachar in battle, and took Radegund into his household. After allying with the Frankish King Theuderic, Hermanfrid defeated his other brother Baderic. However, having crushed his brothers and seized control of Thuringia, Hermanfrid reneged on his agreement with Theuderic to share sovereignty. In 531, Theuderic returned to Thuringia with his brother Clotaire I. Together they defeated Hermanfrid and conquered his kingdom. Clotaire I also took charge of Radegund, taking her back to Merovingian Gaul[1] with him. He sent the child to his villa of Athies in Picardy for several years, before marrying her in 540.[2] Radegund was one of Clotaire I’s six wives or concubines (the other five being Guntheuca who was the widow of his brother Chlodomer, Chunsina, Ingund, Ingund’s sister Aregund and Wuldetrada the widow of Clotaire's grand-nephew Theudebald). She bore him no children. By 550 Radegund's brother was the last surviving male member of the Thuringian royal family. Chlothar had him murdered. She fled the court and sought the protection of the Church, persuading the bishop of Noyon to appoint her a deaconess;[1] founding the monastery of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers circa 560. Living under the Rule for Virgins of Caesarius of Arles, the nuns were required to be able to read and write, and to devote several hours of the day to reading the scriptures and copying manuscripts, as well as traditional tasks such as weaving and needlework.[3] Radegund was a close friend of Junian of Maire; Junian and Radegund are said to have died on the same day, August 13, 587.[4] Literary connections The poet Venantius Fortunatus and the bishop, hagiographer, and historian, Gregory of Tours, were close friends with Radegund and wrote extensively about her. She wrote Latin poems to Fortunatus on tablets that have been lost. The three of them seem to have been close and Fortunatus' relations with Radegund seem to have been based on friendship. There are two poems written in the voice of Radegund, De Excidio Thoringiae and Ad Artachin. While it has been proposed that Venantius wrote them, recent historians see her as the author.[5] Another hagiography was authored by the nun Baudovinia following a rebellion at the abbey described by Gregory of Tours. Radegund's funeral, which Venantius Fortunatus and Gregory of Tours attended, was three days after her death. She was buried in what was to become the Church of St. Radegonde in Poitiers. Her tomb can still be found in the crypt of that church, which remains the center of devotion to her. In the 1260s a church decoration program included stained-glass windows depicting Radegund's life. These were later largely destroyed by Huguenots. Later history Five English parish churches are dedicated to her, and she had a chapel in Old St Paul's Cathedral, as well as in Gloucester, Lichfield, and Exeter Cathedrals. St. Radegund's Abbey, near Dover, was founded in her honour in 1191, and Longleat Priory in Wiltshire was also dedicated to her. She is also a patron saint of Jesus College, Cambridge, which was founded on the site of the 12th century Priory of Saint Mary and Saint Radegund. The St Radegund public house in Cambridge is named in her honour. St Rhadagund's Holiday and Conference Centre on the Isle of Wight is also named after her. There are many places named Sainte-Radegonde in France. References "St. Radegund", Jesus College, Cambridge "Radegund of Thuringia", Columbia University "St Radegund" the nunnery and its history rediscovered", Jesus College Cambridge "Quelques saints du Poitou et d'ailleurs". ?. Retrieved May 7, 2009. Check date values in: |date= (help) Stevenson. p. 88. Missing or empty |title= (help) Sources Gregory of Tours, Glory of the Confessors, translation by R. Van Dam (Liverpool, 1988) Gregory of Tours, Glory of the Martyrs. Translated by Raymond Van Dam. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004. Jane Stevenson (2005). Women Latin poets: language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the Eighteenth Century. Oxford University Press. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, translation by L. Thorpe (Penguin, 1974: many reprints) Venantius Fortunatus, The Life of the Holy Radegund, translation by J. McNamara and J. Halborg Julia M.H. Smith, "Radegundis peccatrix: authorizations of virginity in late antique Gaul," in Philip Rousseau and Emmanuel Papoutsakis (eds), Transformations of late antiquity: essays for Peter Brown Vol. 2 (Aldershot, Ashgate, 2009), 303-326. Jason Glenn, "Two Lives of Saint Radegund," in Jason Glenn (ed), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources (Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012), Labande-Mailfert, Yvonne and Robert Favreau, eds. Histoire de l’abbaye Sainte-Croix de Poitiers: Quatorze siécles de vie monastique. Poitiers: Société des Antiquaires de l’Ouest, 1986. Lillich, Meredith Parsons. The Armor of Light: Stained Glass in Western France, 1250-1325. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Hahn, Cynthia. Portrayed on the Heart: Narrative Effect in Pictorial Lives of Saints from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. External links Other Women's Voices Useful guide to some of the works on Radegund including links to on-line materials. Letters of Radegund of Thuringia, Epistolae, Columbia University "Radegunda, St". Encyclopædia Britannica 22 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 784. Wace, Henry; Piercy, William C., eds. (1911). "Radegundis, St". Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century (third ed.). London: John Murray. Wikisource-logo.svg "Radegundis, Saint". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.