Chilperic II (Latin: Chilperikus; c. 450–476 AD) was a king's son of Gondioc.
Older research assumed that after the death of Gondioc and his brother Chilperic I the four sons of Gondioc exercised a common velvet rule and moved into their residence in different cities. Gregory of Tours reports that Chilperic (after he had been killed with the sword) was thrown into a well together with his wife in the endeavour of his brother Gundobad to incorporate his empire. His daughter Clotilde had then incited her son Chlodomer from Blood Revenge 523/24 to wage war against the Burgundians and also Sigismund, the son of Gundobad, like her father and his family in a well. In recent research, this is strongly doubted, because there is a lack of reliable evidence and the dates of death of the sons of Gondioc are not completely clear. In addition, the bishop, who was hostile to Arianism, wanted to justify the war against Burgundy.
It is now assumed that both Godomar and Chilperic II had already died in 476/77 and only Godegisel and Gundobad shared the rule. In the older literature, it is often noted that he died in 493 in inner-Burgundian power struggles; however, the later date of death is to be regarded as outdated by recent research.
One of Chilperic's daughters named Crona went to the monastery, the other, Clothilde, later married the Frankish king Clovis, after Clovis and Godegisel had allied themselves in the fight against Gundobad.
Sources
- The abridged translation of Gregory of Tour's History of the Franks made by Earnest Brehaut in 1916.
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