Fredegund and Brunhild: a tale of two queens

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Shelley Puhak delves into the lives of queens Fredegund and Brunhild, famed for their bitter and bloody rivalry which wracked the Frankish empire in the latter sixth century. Speaking with Emily Briffett, she reveals how their stories were suppressed, overlooked and used as political propaganda by subsequent rulers, and considers how they should be seen today. (Ad) Shelley Puhak is the author of The Dark Queens: A Gripping Tale of Power, Ambition and Murderous Rivalry in Early Medieval France (Apollo, 2022). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dark-Queens-Bloody-Rivalry-Medieval/dp/180110915X/ref=asc_df_180110915X/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=570409167989&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17412272789854525338&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006715&hvtargid=pla-1570399930681&psc=1&th=1&psc=1&tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:27.1	Assassinated husbands, murdered sisters and royal upstarts.
1:32.7	Queens, Brunehild and Fredegund were iron-willed powerhouses behind a bloody and bitter
1:38.4	rivalry which racked the Frankish Empire in the late 6th century.
1:43.5	In her new book, The Dark Queens, Shelley Pujak delves
1:47.9	into the lives of these two Merovingian women, and she spoke to Emily Briffitt about how their
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