I am altogether unconcerned in it all, and I could not shed the blood of my relatives, for it is a crime.

But since it hath so happened, I give unto you counsel, which ye shall follow if it seem to you good; turn ye towards me, and live under my protection." And they who were present hoisted him on a huge buckler, and hailed him king.
After Sigebert and the Ripuarian Franks, came the Franks of Terouanne, and Chararic their king.

He had refused, twenty years before, to march with Clovis against the Roman, Syagrius.

Clovis, who had not forgotten it, attacked him, took him and his son prisoners, and had them both shorn, ordering that Chararic should be ordained priest and his son deacon.

Chararic was much grieved.