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"The ghosts of these two Frankish queens are everywhere. During their
lifetimes, they grabbed power and hung on to it; they convinced warriors,
landowners and farmers to support them, and enemies to back down. But as with
so many women before them, history blotted out their successes and their
biographies. When chroniclers and historians did make note of them, Brunhild
and Fredegund were dismissed as minor queens of a minor era.
And yet the empire these two queens shared encompassed modern-day France,
Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, western and southern Germany, and swaths
of Switzerland. And they ruled during a critical period in Western history.
Janus-like, they looked back toward the rule of both the Romans and tribal
barbarian warlords, while also looking forward to a new era of nation-states."
Via Esther Schindler.
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