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Aregund, wife of Clotaire I
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Arégonde, Aregund, or Aregunda (French: Arnegonde de Worms) (Worms, c.515-573) was the wife of Clotaire I, king of the Franks, and the mother of Chilperic I of Neustria. She was the sister of Ingund, one of Clotaire's other wives. She may have been born sometime between 500 and 510 and may have died sometime between 580 and 590.
Her sepulchre, among dozens of others, was discovered in 1959 in the Saint Denis Basilica by archaeologist Michel Fleury. It contained remarkably well-preserved clothing items and jewelery, which were used to identify her.
In an episode of the television series "Digging for the Truth" (aired in May 2006), host Josh Bernstein arranged a DNA test of a sample of her remains, to see if it showed any Middle Eastern characteristics. It did not. It is not known why Bernstein chose to test the DNA of the wife of a Merovingian king as opposed to a direct descendent of the Merovingian line, which logically would have been the only way to test the hypothetical Middle-Eastern origin of the Merovingian bloodline.
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