(678) Fredegundis

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( 678 ) Frede Gundis is an asteroid of the main belt, which was discovered on January 22, 1909 in Heidelberg by the German astronomer Karl Wilhelm Lorenz.

The asteroid was named after Fredegunde. She was the wife of Chilperic I, the Merovingian Frankish king of the 6th century. Maybe the name is also derived from the Opera Fredigundis by Franz Schmidt, based on the life of Fredegund.

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