Radegund, Thuringian princess and Frankish queen of Chlothar I, c. 520-587. Founder of the Abbey of the Holy Cross at Poitiers. Seated on a throne in veil and pearl-edged epaulettes and knee-pad, bejeweld robe, holding a stylus and folding diptych-style writing tablet. From a manuscript Vie de Sainte Radegonde, Poitiers Library. Radegonde, femme de Clotaire Ier. France, XIe Siecle. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere and Auguste Racinet from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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