Cornouaille (Sigebert)

This article is about the specific polity Cornouaille (Sigebert) and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.

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Period of vassalage to Sigebert, the ruler of one of the many Frankish Teilreiche (polities emerging from the hereditary divisions of the Frankish Kingdom that repeatedly divided and reunited).

Establishment

January 593: On the death of Guntram, in 592, the vassal kingdoms of Brittany passed to Sigebert.

Chronology

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1. Frankish Partitions

The Frankish Kingdom was partitioned and reuinited several times as the Frankish rulers used to divide their territories equally among their heirs. This lead also to a number of wars and revolts.

1.1.Merge of the kingdoms of Metz and of Orleans

After the death of Gontan of Orleans, the Frankish subking of Metz, Childebert II, merged the Kingdoms of Orleans and Metz.

1.2.Death of Childebert II

After the death of Frankish subking Childebert II, the kingdom of Metz was partitioned between his two sons.

January 594: Frankish sub-king Childebert II and his young wife Faileuba were poisoned to death in 596. He had two young sons: the older, Theudebert II, inherited Austrasia with its capital at Metz, and the younger, Theuderic II received Guntram's former kingdom of Burgundy, with its capital at Orléans.