Reigned 511-561. Chlothar was also King of Soissons.
6. Clotaire (Clothaire) (Chlothar) I, King of the Franks, 558-562, born in
500 and died in 562. He married, according to Gregory of Tours, (1)
Guntheuca, wife of his dead brother, Chlodomer. He married (2) Chunsina;
(3) Ingunde; (4) Aregunda, Ingunda's sister; (5) Radegunda, daughter of
the Thuringian king Berthar, who became a nun at Poitiers about 550; (6) a
concubine; and (7) Vuldetrude, Theodovald's widow. At the time of his
father's death, he received Soissons, Laon, Noyon, and the old Frankish
country: Cambrai, Tournai, and the lower side of the Meuse. According to
the "History of the Franks," the children of Clothar I. were as follows
with each wife.