Name Prefix:<NPFX> King
(chIlĀ“debert) , d. 558, Frankish king, son of Clovis I . O
n his father's death (511) he and his three brothers share
d equally in the Frankish kingdom. His capital was at Paris
. When his brother Clodomir died (524), he and another brot
her Clotaire I murdered Clodomir's sons and seized his land
s. With Clotaire he shared in the reconquest and partitio
n of Burgundy and Provence (534) and unsuccessfully campaig
ned in Spain (542).
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