Clovis II, King of the Franks.

This portrait depicts Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, whose mid-7th-century reign unfolded during a period marked by internal factionalism and the growing influence of the palace mayors. 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 consistent bust-length format, integrating Clovis II into its orderly lineage of French rulers. Though his reign is remembered more for the political maneuvering of powerful advisers than for royal initiatives, the chronicle presents him as a stable point within the broader Merovingian succession, situating him in the fading decades of the dynasty when kingship persisted as a hereditary institution even as practical authority increasingly shifted into aristocratic hands.