Editing Chlothar II (section)

===Ambitions of Fredegund===
In 560, Sigebert and Chilperic married two sisters, daughters of the Visigoth king of Spain [[Athanagild]]; princesses [[Brunhilda of Austrasia|Brunhilda]], and [[Galswintha]] respectively. However Chilperic was still very much attached to his lover and consort, [[Fredegund]], causing Galswintha to wish to return to her homeland in [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]]. In 568 she was murdered and within days, after a brief period of grieving, Chilperic officially married Fredegund and elevated her to a queen of a Frankish kingdom. "After this action his brothers thought that the queen mentioned above had been killed at his command..."<ref>[https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/gregory-hist.asp#book4 Gregory of Tours, ''History of the Franks'', book IV, 28]</ref>

Chilperic agreed, at first, to pay a sum of money to end the feud, but not soon after decided to embark on a series of military operations against Sigebert. This was the beginning of what is called the "royal feud " which did not end until Brunhilda died in 613.  The main episodes until the assassination of Chilperic in 584 were as follows: the assassination of Sigebert (575), the imprisonment of Brunhilde and her marriage to a son of Chilperic, and the return of Brunhilda to her son Childebert II, successor of Sigebert.

Moreover, Fredegund strove to ensure her position, since she was from lower origins, by eliminating the sons that Chilperic had with his previous wife Audovera: Merovech and Clovis. Her own children, however, died at a very young age and appeared to be by foul play. When Fredegund had a son in the spring of 584, he would have been the future successor of [[Chilperic I]], if he had lived long enough.