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In the partition of his father's realm in 511 he received as his share the town of Paris, and the country to the north as far as the river Somme, and to the west as far as the English Channel, with the Armorican peninsula.

In 524, after the murder of Chlodomer's children, Childebert annexed the cities of ChartresChartres is a city of France, prefecture (capital) of the Eure-et-Loir departement''. Its cathedral has been inscribed by the UNESCO on the list of World Heritage Sites in 1979. Chartres was the birthplace of: Jerome Petion de Villeneuve Francois Severin and OrléansThis article is about Orleans, France; for other meanings see Orleans (disambiguation). Holy Cross, built from 1278 to 1329; the Protestants pillaged it in the 1560s; the Bourbon kings restored it in the 17th century. Orleans is a city in north-central Fr. He took part in the various expeditions against the kingdom of BurgundyThis page is about the region of France. For information on the wine, see Burgundy wine. Burgundy ( French Bourgogne is a historic region of France, inhabited in turn by Celts, Gauls, Romans and Gallo-Romans, and various Germanic peoples, most importantly, and in 534Events January 1 Decimus Theodorius Paulinus appointed consul, the last to hold this office in the West. November 16 A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published. Gelimer surrenders to General Belisarius after spending a miserable win received as his share of the spoils of that kingdom the towns of MâconFor other places called Macon, see Macon Macon is a commune of France, prefecture (capital) of the Saone-et-Loire departement in the Burgundy region''. Population: 36,068. Geography Macon is located on the Saone river. It has an area of 2,704 ha. Altitude, GenevaGeneva ( French: Geneve German: Genf Italian: Ginevra Spanish: Ginebra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zurich), located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac de Geneve or Lac Leman empties into the Rhone River. It is the capital of the Can and LyonThis article is about the French city. For other usages (as Lyons , see Lyons (disambiguation). Lyon Region Rhone-Alpes Departement Rhone Arrondissement Lyon Cantonschief town of 14 cantons Population (1999)453,187 Population of the metropolitan area aire.

When WitigesWitiges or Vitiges (d. 540) was the king of the Ostrogoths from 536 to 540. He was the husband of Amalasuntha's only surviving child, Mathesuntha. Witiges had Theodahad murdered after the imprisonment and death of his mother-in-law. General Belisarius too, the king of the Ostrogoths, ceded Provence to the Franks in 535, the possession of Arles and Marseilles was guaranteed to Childebert by his brothers.

Childebert also made a series of expeditions against the Visigoths of Spain; in 542 he took possession of Pampeluna with the help of his brother Clotaire I, and besieged Zaragoza, but was forced to retreat. From this expedition he brought back to Paris a precious relic, the tunic of St Vincent, in honour of which he built at the gates of Paris the famous monastery of St Vincent, known later as St Germain-des-Prés , France.

He died without issue in 558, and was buried in the abbey he had founded, where his tomb has been discovered. See "Nouveaux documents sur le tombeau de Childebert a Saint-Germain-des-Prés" in the Bulletin de la Société des Antiquaires (1887).

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.