Chlothar II, King of the Franks.

This portrait depicts Chlothar II, who inherited the Neustrian throne as an infant and ultimately reunified the Frankish kingdoms after decades of civil conflict among Merovingian branches. Published by Bernardo Giunti in Venice in 1588 within Cronica breue de i fatti illustri de' re di Francia, the image follows the chronicle's established bust-length format, placing Chlothar II firmly within its orderly visual succession of French rulers. His long reign, marked by the Edict of Paris and the gradual consolidation of royal authority, occupies a pivotal place in Merovingian history, and the chronicle presents him as a stabilizing figure whose accession and eventual unification of the realms left a durable imprint on the political landscape of early medieval Francia.