Event Assassination of Sigebert

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The Frankish subking was assassinated and his reign invaded by his relatives.

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  • January 576: At Sigebert's moment of triumph, when he had just been declared king by Chilperic's subjects at Vitry-en-Artois, he was struck down by two assassins working for Fredegund.