Caretene

Caretene (? - September 16, 506) was the wife of Gundobad, king of the Burgundians. Unlike her husband, who was an Arian, Caretene was a Catholic. She was probably the mother of Sigismund of Burgundy.

Sources

• Martina Hartmann: Die Königin im frühen Mittelalter. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-17-018473-2, S. 3f.; 11; 148; 159; 167f.; 206; 215.
• Reinhold Kaiser: Die Burgunder. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-016205-5, S. 63; 118; 124; 152; 154; 159; 167.
• Gerd Kampers: Caretena – Königin und Asketin. Mosaiksteine zum Bild einer burgundischen Herrscherin, in: Francia 27, 1 (2000), S. 1–32.
• John Robert Martindale u. a.: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PRLE), Bd. 2, 1980, S. 260f.