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2014-12-22 Saint Germain-en-Laye, musée-archeologie nationale, Yvelines, Île-de-France DSCN6081
If we are to believe the chronicler Gregory of Tours, Queen Frankish Ingonde, wife of the Merovingian king Clotaire I, requesting the latter to find a husband worthy of her younger sister Arnegunde, the king found better claiming that it -even and decided to marry his own sister. This marriage certainly proscribed by the ecclesiastical canons, however, was consistent with polygamous and endogamous principles in effect in the Germanic royal families. Arnegunde therefore reached the rank of legitimate queen and also appears as regina (that is to say, queen or princess in the broad sense of the term) in the work of Gregory of Tours, like the other Clotaire women.
Her tomb was discovered in 1959 in the sarcophagus number 49 in the Saint-Denis basilica by Michel Fleury, palaeographer archivist. It contained preserved clothes and jewelry, including its registered ring (signet ring bearing the name ARNEGVNDIS and a central monogram read as REGINE, now kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. This is the grave best documented from Europe to the High Middle Age.
The date of his death is not known by texts, archaeological analysis of the tomb was first issued two assumptions. Thus, according to Michel Fleury, based on an analysis of the state of the skeleton, she would have died between 565 and 570 (at the age of about 50 years hence). However, studies of the grave goods, especially clothing items have been conducted more recently by Patrick Perin, Director of National Antiquities Museum. These analyzes now suggest that death must be dated between 572 and 583; Indeed, the style of some parts of the queen costume does not appear in the Merovingian world before the seventh century. Michel Fleury gives the following description: "a woman very small, aged about forty-five years, the blonde hair, the pretty round skull, the lower jaw fairly prominent, but the chin deleted". The latest research, in particular the analysis of his teeth give death to 60 years when she was very osteoarthritis. It measured 1.55 m4, had polio sequelae of childhood in the right leg (she would have suffered at the age of 4 years as suggested by a first tooth stress) and disease signs forestry probably because of a strong diabetes, dental stress due to difficile2 delivery (at the age of 18, which is late for the time since the wedding can be from 12 years) .
She was wearing a Chinese silk coat purple complexion that indicated his royal rank, a silk veil yellow and red motifs (red murex and madder), leather shoes red kid and jewelery (plate- buckle, brooch and pin) in gold and silver adorned with garnets from India, Ceylon, Bohemia and Portugal5. She was wearing a suit and inspired by the Byzantine style. WP
2014-12-22 Saint Germain-en-Laye, musée-archeologie nationale, Yvelines, Île-de-France DSCN6081
If we are to believe the chronicler Gregory of Tours, Queen Frankish Ingonde, wife of the Merovingian king Clotaire I, requesting the latter to find a husband worthy of her younger sister Arnegunde, the king found better claiming that it -even and decided to marry his own sister. This marriage certainly proscribed by the ecclesiastical canons, however, was consistent with polygamous and endogamous principles in effect in the Germanic royal families. Arnegunde therefore reached the rank of legitimate queen and also appears as regina (that is to say, queen or princess in the broad sense of the term) in the work of Gregory of Tours, like the other Clotaire women.
Her tomb was discovered in 1959 in the sarcophagus number 49 in the Saint-Denis basilica by Michel Fleury, palaeographer archivist. It contained preserved clothes and jewelry, including its registered ring (signet ring bearing the name ARNEGVNDIS and a central monogram read as REGINE, now kept in the National Archaeological Museum of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. This is the grave best documented from Europe to the High Middle Age.
The date of his death is not known by texts, archaeological analysis of the tomb was first issued two assumptions. Thus, according to Michel Fleury, based on an analysis of the state of the skeleton, she would have died between 565 and 570 (at the age of about 50 years hence). However, studies of the grave goods, especially clothing items have been conducted more recently by Patrick Perin, Director of National Antiquities Museum. These analyzes now suggest that death must be dated between 572 and 583; Indeed, the style of some parts of the queen costume does not appear in the Merovingian world before the seventh century. Michel Fleury gives the following description: "a woman very small, aged about forty-five years, the blonde hair, the pretty round skull, the lower jaw fairly prominent, but the chin deleted". The latest research, in particular the analysis of his teeth give death to 60 years when she was very osteoarthritis. It measured 1.55 m4, had polio sequelae of childhood in the right leg (she would have suffered at the age of 4 years as suggested by a first tooth stress) and disease signs forestry probably because of a strong diabetes, dental stress due to difficile2 delivery (at the age of 18, which is late for the time since the wedding can be from 12 years) .
She was wearing a Chinese silk coat purple complexion that indicated his royal rank, a silk veil yellow and red motifs (red murex and madder), leather shoes red kid and jewelery (plate- buckle, brooch and pin) in gold and silver adorned with garnets from India, Ceylon, Bohemia and Portugal5. She was wearing a suit and inspired by the Byzantine style. WP