In the meantime the compact of peace which Theuderich and Theudebert had made was broken, and each one, priding himself on the strength of his followers, endeavored to kill the other.
Theuderich pursued Theudebert, and the latter was captured by the treachery of his followers and sent to his grandmother, Brunhilda.
The latter had the boys killed, one by one, but Brunhilda he had placed first on a camel in mockery and so exhibited to all her enemies round about; then she was bound to the tails of wild horses and thus perished wretchedly.
When Provence was ceded to the Franks by the Ostrogoths, he received the cities of Orange, Carpentras and Gap.
In 531 he marched against the Thuringi[?] with his brother Theuderich (Thierry) I[?], and in 542 with his brother Childebert I against the Visigoths of Spain.
On the death of his great-nephew Theodebald in 555, Clotaire annexed his territories; and on Childebert's death in 558 he became king of all Gaul.
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