Wisigard

Wisigarde (also Wisigardis ) was a Frankish queen in the 6th century.

Life

From the Life Wisigardes few data of Gregory of Tours are narrated. She was born as the daughter of King Wacho on Langobardenhof on the middle Danube. As a grown woman she married after an unusually long engagement period of seven years the king austrischen Theudebert I and came to the Merovingian royal court to Cologne. The betrothal had been arranged for political reasons by I. Theuderic to 531, but due to a liaison between Theudebert and a Romanin called Deoteria concluded only 537/538. Only a short time after the marriage died Wisigarde.

Grave lay in the Cologne Cathedral

Is associated with Wisigarde a richly -featured woman's grave from the first half of the 6th century under the Cologne Cathedral, which was discovered during archaeological investigations in the course of the construction of a new crypt on 10 April 1959. The Head of the former Excavations, Otto double box, hinted at the time the grave due to its features and dating as a burial place of Wisigarde. This interpretation is, however, neither in inscriptions nor validated by the sources.

Swell

• Gregory of Tours, Historiarum III, 20, 27