The Treaty of Andelot was signed at Andelot-Blancheville

Andelot-Blancheville

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 in 587

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 between King Guntram of Burgundy and Queen Brunhilda of Austrasia

Brunhilda of Austrasia

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. Based on the terms of the accord, Brunhilda agreed that Guntram adopt her son Childebert II

Childebert II

.Childebert II was the Merovingian king of Austrasia, which included Provence at the time, from 575 until his death in 595, the eldest and succeeding son of Sigebert I, and the king of Burgundy from 592 to his death, as the adopted and succeeding son of his uncle Guntram.-Childhood:When his father...

 as his successor and ally himself with Childebert against the revolted leudes. Gregory of Tours

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 wrote in his Historia Francorum that in the thirteenth year of Childebert, he went on an embassy for the king from Metz

Metz

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 to Chalon

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 to meet Guntram, who alleged that prior promises were being broken, especially concerning the division of Senlis

Senlis, Oise

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. Significantly to Gregory, the treaty brought about the cession of Tours

Tours

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by Guntram to Childebert. An agreement was provided in writing and Gregory preserves the text of the treaty in his history.

Sources

• History of the Franks: Books I-X. Gregory of Tours, trans. Ernest Brehaut (1916).