Sigismund of Burgundy King of Burgundy [5947] ²⁴

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigismund_of_Burgundy

Sigismund (died 524) was king of the Burgundians <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundians> from 516 to his death. He was the son of king Gundobad <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundobad>, whom he succeeded in 516.


The 6th century , Christian or not, was a violent age: when his son opposed him in 517, and insulted his new wife, Sigismund had him strangled. Then, overcome with remorse, Sigismund retreated to the monastery that he had founded.


His bones were recovered from the well at Columelle </w/index.php?title=Columelle&action=edit> where his body had been thrown, and a shrine developed near Agaune. Eventually Sigismund was canonized.
Correspondence has survived between Avitus, who was a poet and one of the last masters of the classical arts, and Sigismund.
In the 14th century, Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IV%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor>, transferred Sigismund's relics to Prague <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague>, hence he has become a patron saint <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patron_saint> of the Czech Republic <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_Republic>.

Sigismund married Arevagni of the Visigoths [61289] [MRIN: 1996], daughter of Theodoric "the Great" King of Italy [59854] and concubines [61290].