A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Ingonde, or Ingundis
INGONDE, or INGUNDIS,
Daughter of Siegbert the First, King of Austrasia, or Lorraine, and of his wife, the famous Brunehaut, was married about 670, to Brunechilde, or Ermencgild, second son of Leovigild, one of the Gothic kings of Spain. She was received with great pomp and tenderness by her husband and his grandmother Gosuinda. But the old queen had an aversion to Catholicism, and attempted, at first by persuasions and afterwards by threats, to convert Ingonde to Arianism, and to have her re-baptized; but Ingonde resolutely refused to consent. Grosuinda, enraged at her firmness, seized her by the hair, threw her down, stamped upon her, and had her plunged by force into the baptistry. Ingonde, however, at length, by her patience and piety, converted her husband to her own faith, which, when his father heard of it, made him so furious, that he had his son taken prisoner and beheaded. Ingonde fled, but was captured and taken to Sicily, where she died, about 585. She was venerated as a martyr.