The Liber historiæ Francorum, a relatively late source (727) and moreover widely disputed, tells how Audovère is manipulated by his servant Frédégonde and repudiated at his instigation. Indeed, taking advantage of an absence of the king left to fight in Saxony against his brother Sigebert, Frédégonde would have abused the naivety of the queen by making her hold her sixth child, Childesinde, on the baptismal font. Audovère would thus be guilty of becoming godmother of her own daughter and gossip of her husband, which in the eyes of the Church forbade her the marital bed on pain of being accused of incest. On his return from the war, Chilpéric, informed by Frédégonde, would have repudiated Audovère so as not to be excommunicated himself, and would have sent her to a convent in the city of Le Mans.
