Career
Chramn was hiding out on Black Mountain in the Limousin. Negotiations failed and the two armies prepared for battle. Charibert and Guntram immediately returned to Burgundy to secure their positions.
Each son ruled a distinct realm, which was not necessarily geographically coherent but could contain two unconnected regions, from a chief city after which his kingdom is called.
Charibert received Neustria (the region between the Somme and the Loire), Aquitaine, and Novempopulana with Paris as his capital. His chief cities were Rouen, Tours, Poitiers, Limoges, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Cahors, and Albi.
Guntram received Burgundy, then Sigebert received Austrasia (including Rheims) with his capital at Metz, and the youngest brother Chilperic received a compact kingdom with Soissons as its capital. Charibert also had several concubines.
His brutal behavior resulted in his excommunication, the first ever of a Merovingian king.
She took with her Bishop Liudhard as her private confessor. Her influence in the Kentish court was instrumental in the success of Saint Augustine of Canterbury"s mission in 597. Though Charibert was eloquent and learned in the law, he was one of the most dissolute of the early Merovingians.
He was excommunicated, and his early death in 567 was brought on by his excesses.
He was buried in Blavia castellum, a military fort in the Tractatus Armoricani. His surviving queen (out of four), Theudechild, proposed a marriage with Guntram, though a council held at Paris in 557 had outlawed such matches as incestuous.
Guntram decided to house her more safely, though unwillingly, in a nunnery at Arles. The main source for Charibert"s life is Gregory of Tours" History of the Franks (Book IV, 3,16,22,26 and IX, 26), and from the English perspective Bede"s Ecclesiastic History of the English People.