Sigebert OF COLOGNE

See also

Sigebert OF COLOGNE's father: Childebert OF COLOGNE ( - )

Sigebert OF COLOGNE ( -509)


	Statue of Sigobert the Lame on the tower of the city town hall of Cologne

Name:	Sigebert OF COLOGNE ¹
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	"the Lame"
Father:	Childebert OF COLOGNE ( - )
Mother:	-

Individual Events and Attributes

Occupation		King of Cologne
Death	0509

Additional Information

Death

Cause: murdered by his own son at the instigation of Clovis I, King of the Salic Franks.

Marriage

Spouse	(unknown)
Children	Cloderic OF COLOGNE ( -509)

Individual Note

Sigobert the Lame (also Sigibert or Sigebert, d. ca. 509) was a king of the Franks in the area of Zülpich (Latin: Tolbiac) and Cologne.

He was presumably wounded at the knee at the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alamanni.

According to Gregory of Tours, he was murdered by his son Chlodoric upon the instigation of Clovis I, sometime after his victory on the Visigoths (507). Clovis then accused Chlodoric of murder and had him killed in his turn. In this way Clovis became king of Sigobert's and Chlodoric's people.

Gregory suggests that Chlodoric was murdered in the same campaign that also killed the Frankish King Chararic. Before, Clovis had killed Ragnachar and his brothers. After all these murders Gregory tells us that Clovis lamented that he had left no family anymore, implying that amongst his own casualties were close relatives.

SOURCE:

Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks. 2 vol. trans. O. M. Dalton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.²

Sources

¹	Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 178, 190-3.

²	"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigobert_the_Lame.