Basina of Thuringia, circa 438-477
Queen Consort of Childeric I
Mother of Clovis I
Their daughter Audofleda married the Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great. Audofleda’s daughter was Amalasuntha, who ruled as Queen of the Ostrogoths.

Saint Clotilde, circa 470-June 3, 545
Queen Consort of Clovis I
Mother of Chlodomer of Orléan, Childebert I of Paris, Clothar I of Soissons, stepmother of Theuderic I of Metz.
In order to ally France with Rome, Clotilde persuaded her husband to become a Roman Catholic. The original Salic Law, which listed crimes and their associated penalties, was written under Clovis I’s rule. Later, the legal prohibition against women inheriting titles, offices, and property has come to be known as the “Salic Law.”

Ingund of Thuringia, circa 499-?
Queen Consort of Clothar (Clotaire or Lothair) I of Soissons
Sister of Aregund, another wife of Clothar
Daughter of Baderic of Thuringia
Mother of Charibert I of Paris, Guntram of Burgundy, Sigebert I of Austrasia, and daughter Chlothsind

Aregund of Thuringia, circa 500-561
Queen Consort of Clothar (Clotaire or Lothair) I of Soissons
Sister of Ingund, another wife of Clothar
Daughter of Baderic of Thuringia
Mother of Chilperic I of Soissons

Radegund, circa 518/520-August 13, 586/587
Queen Consort of Clothar (Clotaire or Lothair) I of Soissons
Taken as war booty, she was not Clothar’s only wife, as monogamy was not yet the standard among the Franks. She left her husband and founded a convent.

More Wives of Clothar I
Other wives or consorts of Clothar were Guntheuc (a widow of Clothar’s brother Chlodomer), Chunsine, and Waldrada (he may have repudiated her).

Audovera, ?-circa 580
Queen Consort of Chilperic I, son of Clothar I and Aregund
Mother of a daughter, Basina, and three sons: Merovech, Theudebert, and Clovis
Fredegund had Audovera and one of Audovera’s sons (Clovis) killed in 580.

Galswintha, circa 540-568
Queen Consort of Chilperic I, son of Clothar I and Aregund
Galswintha was Chilperic’s second wife.

Fredegund, circa 550-597
Queen Consort of Chilperic I, son of Clothar I and Aregund
Mother and regent of Chlotar (Lothair) II

Brunhilde, circa 545-613
Queen Consort of Sigebert I of Austrasia, who was a son of Clothar I and Ingund
Mother and regent of Childebert II and a daughter Ingund, grandmother of Theodoric II and Theodebert II, great-grandmother of Sigebert II
Brunhilde’s sister Galswintha was married to Sigebert’s half-brother Chilperic. When Galswintha was murdered by Fredegund, Brunhilde urged her husband to wage war for revenge against Fredegunde and her family.

Clotilde, Dates unknown
Daughter of Charibert of Paris, who was another son of Clothar I of Soissons and Ingund, and of one of Charibert’s four wives, Marcovefa
Clotilde, who was a nun at the Convent of the Holy Cross founded by Radegund (above), was part of a rebellion. After that conflict was resolved, she did not return to the convent.

Bertha, 539-circa 612
Daughter of Charibert I of Paris and Ingoberga, one of Charibert’s four consorts
Sister of Clotilde, a nun, part of a conflict at the Convent of the Holy Cross with their cousin Basina
Queen consort of Aethelberht of Kent
She is credited with bringing Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons.

Aethelberht of Kent, an Anglo-Saxon King, married Bertha, a daughter of the King of Paris, most likely before he was crowned in around 558. He wasn’t a Christian, whereas she was. It was spelled out in the marriage contract that she would be free to practice her religion.

In Canterbury, she transformed an existing church into her private chapel. In 596 or 597, monk Augustine was sent by Pope Gregory I to convert the English. Augustine of Canterbury became his new name, and Aethelbert’s support for Augustine’s mission was certainly essential. In the year 601, Pope Gregory wrote Bertha a letter. Aethelberht became the first Anglo-Saxon monarch to be baptized by Augustine after eventually converting to Christianity.

Basina, circa 573-?
Daughter of Audovera and Chilperic I, who was the son of Clothar I of Soissons and Aregund.
After Basina and her brothers escaped an epidemic that claimed the lives of their two brothers and after Basina’s stepmother had Basina’s mother and remaining brother killed, she was taken to the Convent of the Holy Cross, which Radegund had founded. Later, she participated in a coup at the convent.