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- Nobles who shift allegiance or resist royal control are found dead; rival claimants disappear; bishops are implicated in power plays. The church becomes increasingly involved.
- Fredegund (to a noble): “Your loyalty lies with the living. Remember that.”
- Bishop: “I serve God, not kings. Or queens.”
- Brunhilda (to a bishop): “You’ve spoken against my grandson in public. Speak against him again, and you may find your pulpit empty.”
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- 597 CE – Neustria Fredegund dies. Her son Clotaire II inherits Neustria and bides his time as Brunhilda continues her regency, now ruling on behalf of multiple grandsons in Austrasia and Burgundy. Internal rebellion grows against her harsh rule.
- Brunhilda (to her court): “I have given this realm stability. I will not be undone by boys with swords.”
- Clotaire II (quietly, to his men): “Austrasia weakens. Her rule cannot hold forever.”
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- 613 CE – The borderlands between Neustria and Austrasia The Austrasian nobility, fed up with Brunhilda’s centralization of power and harsh rule, betray her and hand her over to Clotaire II. She is accused of causing the deaths of numerous royals and is publicly executed—likely brutally, though exact methods are debated.
- Clotaire II: “Let this be the end of the civil war. One kingdom. One ruler.”
- Brunhilda (before execution): “History will remember who held this realm together.”
- Courtier (aside): “She ruled like a man—and died for it.”
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