Editing Guntram (section)

{{Short description|King of Orléans from 561 to 592 AD}}
{{about|the Frankish king|the Strauss opera|Guntram (opera)|the German noble|Guntram the Rich}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name         = St. Gontrand
| image        = File:Tiers_de_sou_de_Gontran_frapp%C3%A9_%C3%A0_Chalon-sur-Sa%C3%B4ne.jpeg
| caption      = A [[tremissis]] bearing Guntram's effigy and minted at Chalon-sur-Saône
| succession   = [[King of Orléans]]
| reign        = 561–592
| predecessor  = [[Chlothar I]]
| successor    = [[Childebert II]]
| house        = [[Merovingian]]
| birth_date   = 532
| birth_place  = [[Soissons]]
| death_date   = 28 March {{death year and age|592|532}}
| death_place  = [[Chalon-sur-Saône]]
| father       = [[Chlothar I]]
| mother       = [[Ingund]]
| spouses      = Veneranda<br>Marcatrude<br>[[Austregilde]]
| spouse-type  = 
| issue        = Gundobad<br>Clothar<br>Chlodomer
}}
Saint '''Gontrand''' ({{circa}} 532 in [[Soissons]] – 28 March 592 in [[Chalon-sur-Saône]]), also called '''Gontran''', '''Gontram''', '''Guntram''', '''Gunthram''', '''Gunthchramn''', and '''Guntramnus''', was the king of the Kingdom of Orléans from AD 561 to AD 592.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVOsCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT220|title=Lives of the Saints: For Every Day in the Year|last=Butler|first=Rev Fr Alban|date=May 2009|publisher=TAN Books|isbn=9781618903075|pages=220|language=en}}</ref> He was the third-eldest and second-eldest-surviving son of [[Chlothar I]] and [[Ingunda]]. On his father's death in 561, he became king of a fourth of the [[Kingdom of the Franks]], and made his capital at [[Orléans]].<ref>Ian Wood, ''The Merovingian Kingdoms 450–751'' (Longman Group, 1994), 56.</ref> The name "Gontrand" denotes "[[Cultural depictions of ravens|War Raven]]".