*Clovis I "The Great" (Clodovic)(Chlodwig) Meroving King
of the Salic Franks
born about 0466 Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, France
died
27 November 0511 Saint Pierre, France
father:
*Childeric
I de Meroving
born 0436 Westphalia, Germany
died 26 November 0481
mother:
*Basina Andovera von Thuringia
born
0438 Thuringia, Germany
died about 0480
siblings:
Lantraldis (Lanthilde)
Meroving
*Andelfieda (Audeflede) Meroving
Alboflede
"Blanchefleur" Meroving
Clodius Meroving
Guntran Meroving
spouse:
*St.
Clothilde de Bourgogne
born 0475 Bourgogne, France
died 3 June 0548
Tours, Ingre-Et-Loire, France
married 0492/93 Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique,
France
children:
Theodoric I Meroving of the Franks
Clodomer Meroving
*Childebert
"The Catholique" Meroving
born about 0496 Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique,
France
died 23 December 0558 Paris, Seine, France
*Clotaire
(Chlothar) I "The Old" Meroving King of Soissons, Orleans & France
born
0499 Rheims, Marne, Loire-Alantique, France
died 23 November 0561 Braines, Loire
Atlantique, France
*Clotilda de Meroving born
0497 Rheims, France died 0531
Tichilda Meroving
daughter Meroving
biographical
and/or anecdotal:
*Clovis I (Chlodwig), also known by some historians as
Louis and Lodowig, born 467, died 511, the first king of all the Franks, the founder
of the empire of Franks, ruling from 482 to 511, son of Childeric I., chief of the
Salian Franks, whom he succeeded in 481 at the age of 15. His capital was at Rheims
and later at Paris. He had the Salic law drawn up about the year 500. At the death
of Clovis I. the empire was divided into four parts, which were held by his sons
In
493 *Clovis married *Clothilde (Clotilda) of Burgundy (afterwards St. Clothilde),
born 475, died at Tours in 545, "the girl of the French Vineyards". She
was the daughter of Gondebaud (Chilperic II.?), King of Burgundy. She was Arian by
religion, but with strong Roman Catholic tendencies. This marriage was of primary
importance, as the real shape of France dated from it. It was she who led her husband
to abandon his old beliefs and embrace Christianity. He was baptized in the 15th
year of his reign at Rheims on Christmas Day in 496, with 3,000 of his followers.
When Clovis first heard the story of Christ's crucifixion, he was so moved that he
cried, "If I had been there with my valiant Franks, I would have avenged Him."
Henceforth the Church played a decisive role in the history of the kings of France.
notes
or source:
ancestry.com