![]() ![]() And yet – in sixth-century Merovingian France, where women were excluded from noble succession and royal politics was a blood sport – these two iron-willed strategists reigned over vast realms for decades. Her sister-in-law Fredegund started out as a lowly palace slave. 'Fredegund and Brunhild have finally found a worthy champion' Literary Reviewīrunhild was a Visigothic princess, raised to be married off for the sake of alliance-building. 'Restores two half-forgotten and much-mythologized queens to their proper place in medieval history' Dan Jones 'Brings the Merovingian empire to thrilling, bewildering, horrifying life' Helen Castor ![]() ![]() A vivid double biography of two fearless early medieval queens. ![]()
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