Chram

{{Short description|Frankish rebel}} [[Image:Mort de Chramn.jpg|thumbnail|225px|right|''Death of Chramn'', Guillaume Crétin, ''Chroniques Françaises''. After 1515, Rouen, France. Bibliothèque Nationale de France.]] '''Chram''' (also spelled ''Chramn'', ''Chramm''; [[Old Frankish]] '[[raven]]'; Latin: {{Lang|la|Chramnus}},<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-aLuAgAAQBAJ&q=Chramnus&pg=PA85|title=History of the Franks|first=Ernest|last=Brehaut |author-link1=Ernest Brehaut |publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=9781176686120|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FGoTAQAAIAAJ&q=Chramnus|title=History of the Franks: Selections. translated with notes by Ernest Brehaut|first=Saint Gregory (Bishop of|last=Tours)|date=July 28, 1965|publisher=Octagon|via=Google Books}}</ref> modern French: {{Lang|fr|Chramn(e)}})<ref>[[Bruno Dumézil]], ''La reine Brunehaut'', Paris, Editions Fayard, 2008, page 9.</ref> (died 561) was the son of [[Chlothar I]], a [[Merovingian dynasty|Merovingian]] king of the [[Franks]] (r. 558–561), and his fifth wife, [[Chunsina]].<ref>de Sismondi, p. 195</ref>

Chram rose in rebellion against his father on several occasions. Following one of these rebellions, he fled with his wife and children to the court of [[Chanao]], the ruler of [[Brittany]]. In pursuit of Chram, Chlothar defeated the combined forces of Chanao and his son in battle. Chanao was killed, and Chram, delayed in making his escape by sea because of his concern for his family's safety, was captured. Chlothar gave orders to burn them alive, but Chram was strangled and his body was placed in a cottage,<ref>de Sismondi, p. 196</ref> which was subsequently burned. Chlothar reportedly died of remorse later that year.

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*[[Gregory of Tours]] Book IV chapter 20 at [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gregory-hist.html ''The Medieval Sourcebook''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140814182657/http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gregory-hist.html |date=2014-08-14 }} * {{in lang|fr}} Jean Charles L. Simonde de Sismondi, ''Histoire de la chute de l'Empire Romain et du déclin de la civilisation, de l'an 250 à l'an 1000'', Paris: Treuttel et Würtz, 1835. {{OCLC|6969556}} *{{source-attribution|[[Dictionnaire Bouillet]] — a French work which is in the public domain because the copyright has expired in the United States, France, and other countries where the copyright expires 100 years or more after the author's death}}

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