Gogo

Gogo (d. c. 581) was a leading Frankish noble and administrator at the Austrasian court of the Merovingian kingdom. A cultivated layman praised for his eloquence, he served King Sigibert I as an envoy, helping arrange the king's marriage to the Visigothic princess Brunhild, and after Sigibert's assassination in 575 he became nutricius (guardian-tutor) and effectively chief regent for the young Childebert II, directing affairs at Metz until his death. He is remembered as a patron of letters whose learning and friendships were celebrated by the poet Venantius Fortunatus and whose own correspondence survives in the Epistolae Austrasicae, making him a notable witness to the survival of classical literary culture in sixth-century Gaul.