Chlodomir (King Of Orleans - 511-524)

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King of Orleans 511-524 - Son of Clovis I, King of the Franks, Chlodomirinherited Orleans upon Clovis' death in 511. He immediately attackedBurgundy with his brother Theuderic I, King of Metz, took King Sigismundprisoner, and had his family murdered. In 524, he invaded Burgundyatain, now under King Godomar, and was killed in battle that year.

Chlodomir married Guntheuc in 514. Guntheuc was born in 495 in France; died in 532 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• RULED: 481-511
• RULED: 481-511
• Name: The Great
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• Christened: 25 Dec 496, Reims, Neustria

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Born circa 466, son of Childeric I, King des Francs and Basine Andoverade Turinge , Clovis I became King between the Summer of 481 and Autumn of482. According to Gregoire de Tours, he was only about 15 years of age atthe time. In any case he was quite young as he was called "juvenis".Timelines here are bound to be fraught with error since the custom ofcounting years from the time of Jesus Christ was not established untilthe 8th Century. Thus, both the Larousse and the History of France asserta birth date circa 466 whereas Stuart's "Royalty for Commoners" claimsClovis I was alive in the year 420! That date is necessary to claim thatSigebert I is the son of Childebert, son of Clovis, since Stuart claimsSigebert I was King of the Salic Francs from 481 to 511.

Significant-Other - Evochilde before 486 - Evochilde was a concubine.Note - between 486 and 507: King of the Franks, Clovis I vanquished theRomans at Soissons in 486. Syagrius, the "Roman King" takes refuge inToulouse under the protection of the King of the Wisigoths, Alaric [whohad just become King in 484]. By the end of the year, Clovis I forcedAlaric to give up Syagrius, and Clovis I secretly has Syagrius put todeath. From 487 to 490, Clovis I extended his kingdom all the way to theLoire River, however, he respects the border of the Wisigoths to theSouth and of the Burgundians to the South-West, as well as that of theriparian Francs to the East. From 490 to 495, Clovis is occupied with theliquidation of the Salic Franc dynasty North of Gaule. King Chararic ofTongres is decapitated, and King Ragnacaire of Cambrai is executed. Uponthe request for aid from the Riparian Francs, Clovis I defeats theAlamans (Germans) at the Battle of Tolbiac in 496 thus bringing Champagneunder his jurisdiction. In 500, he wages war against Gondebaud, King ofBurgundy defeating him near Dijon. Gondebaud retreats to Avignon. In502, on the Cure and the Cousin, Clovis I and Gondebaud seal an alliance.From April to June 507, the French Army attack the Wisigoths, whoseKingdom extends from the Mediterranean to the ocean, and cross the Loire,going up the Valley of Calin toward Poitiers and encounter the VisigothArmy in the plain of Vouille, 15 km West of Clain. Alaric II, King ofthe Visigoths is killed and the Wisigoths thus are defeated. By 507,thanks to the efforts of his son, Thierry, the entire Meridional Gaulefalls into Clovis I's control. In 508, the Franc Army lays siege onArles in order to secure Provence. Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths,occupies Provence, and his general, Ibbas, crosses the Alps to deliverArles from Clovis I's clutch. Theodoric conquers the Burgundians atAvignon and Orange and makes Amalaric, his grandson and son of Alaric II,King of the Wisigoths. Clovis I loses the Bas-Languedoc, then calledSeptimania.

Around 510, Clovis has Cloderic, King of the Riparian tribes who hadfought in his support at Vouille, assassinated, and proclaims himselfKing of the Riparians. Thus, the Kingdom extends from the Pyrenees, tothe ocean to beyond the Rhine. Upon his death, according to Frankishcustom, his kingdom was divided among his four sons: Thierry, Clodomir,Childebert and Clotaire. Married circa 493: Sainte Clotilde de Bourgogne, daughter of Chilperic, King de Bourgogne and N?; Clotilde was aMerovingien. By the time Clovis I married her, he already had a sonthrough his concubine. Clotilde contributed to the conversion of Clovisto Christianity. After his death, she retired to the monastery ofSaint-Martin in Tours (France). Her Feast Day is 3 June. Baptized: on 25December 496; When the Queen, Clotilde, convinced Clovis I to have theirson Ingomer baptized, he relented. Shortly afterwards, the son died.

481 - Clovis - "The Franks were a Germanic tribe just east of the Rhinewho, even in the time of Julian, had carried through serious raids intoGaul. The rulers of the Franks were descended from a leader namedMerovech, so that they were called the 'Merovingians.' In 481, a15-year-old Merovingian named Clovis succeeded to the leadership of theFrankish tribes." [Isaac Asimov, Asimov's Chronology Of The World]

"When Meroveus's son Childeric died in AD 481, he was followed by his sonClovis, the most prominent of all the Merovingians and traditionallyreckoned founder of the French monarchy. At that time the Roman Churchgreatly feared the increasing popularity of the Arian religion in Gaul [aChristian faith which did not subscribe to the divinity of Jesus], andCatholicism was dangerously close to being completely overrun in WesternEurope. Clovis was, in practice, neither Catholic nor Arian and itoccured to the Roman hierarchy that the rise of Clovis could be used totheir advantage. As it transpired, Clovis aided them quite inadvertentlywhen he married the Burgundian Princess Clotilde." [Laurence Gardner,Realm Of The Ring Lords]

486 - Clovis - Clovis beat Syagrius at Soissons in northern Gaul. Thelast bit of land in the west that might be considered Roman was gone.
500 - Clovis - "About 500, Clovis defeated the Burgundians [his wife'skingsmen] in eastern Gaul."
507 - Clovis - "In 507, Clovis defeated the Visigoths and drove them outof Gaul."
508 - Clovis - "Clovis made his capital at Paris."
511 - Franks - "By the time of his death in 511, Clovis was master ofvirtually all of Gaul. In centuries to come, Gaul was the one province inthe west that lost its name. It was Gaul no more, but eventually became'France,' from the word 'Frank.' In German, the land is called'Frankreich' ['realm of the Franks']. On Clovis's death, his four sonseach inherited a portion of the Frankish kingdom and, as was inevitable,they fought eachother. This happened over and over and kept the Franksfrom becoming stronger than they were." [Isaac Asimov, Asimov'sChronology Of The World]

Clovis married Saint Clotilda (Queen Of The Franks) BURGUNDY in 492 in France. Clotilda (daughter of King Chilperic II Des BURGONDES and Caratene Of The Suevics (Agrippina De Narbonnaise) NARBONNE) was born in 475 in Remu, Bourgogne, Burgundy, France; died on 3 Jun 545 in Tours, Indre-Et-Loire, Touraine, France; was buried in Basilica Of The Holy Apostles Church, St. Genevieve, Paris, Ile-DE-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Clotilda was the wife of Clovis I, and the daughter of Chilperic, King of Burgundians of Lyons, and Caretena. After the death of King Gundovic (Gundioch), the Kingdom of Burgundy had been divided among his four sons, Chilperic reigning at Lyons, Gondebad at Vienne, and Godegisil at Geneva; Gondemar's capital is not mentioned. Chilperic and probably Godegisil were Catholics, while Gondebad professed Arianism. Clotilda was given a religious training by her mother caretena, who, according to Sidonius Apollinaris and Fortunatus of Poitiers, was a remarkable woman. After the death of Chilperic, Caretena seems to have made her home with Godegisil at Geneva, where her other daughter, Sedeleuba, or Chrona, founded the church of Saint-Victor, and took the religious habit. It was soon after the death of Chilperic that Clovis asked and obtained the hand of Clotilda.

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• RULED: 458-481
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Page 212 in "Dawn of European Civilization" has Merovingian chart. Itdiffers a little from some others; Cloderic is same as Childeric.

From "Rulers of the World" by R. F. Tapsell: "Childeric I became thethird King of the Franks in 458. He fought with the Roman Aegidiusagainst the Wisigoths. When Aegidius died in 464, he was succeeded byCount Paul. Childeric I's army helped Count Paul push back a Saxonadvance from Angers around 466. Count Paul died in 470. They had torepeat this feat around 475, since Count Paul had died and the Saxonsonce again had attempted to expand into Angers.

(Andre Castelot, Histoire de La France, Pages, 176, 200). Born: before 433, son of Merovee=Merovech, Prince des Francs and N?, Childeric I is presumed to have been at least 15 years of age by the time he succeeded his father in 448. Between 480 and 481 Childeric I's tomb in Tournai was discovered in 1653 and contained magnificent weapons. Buried: circa 481 in Tournai, Bigorre, France.

King of the Salian Franks 456-481, Childeric succeeded his semi-legendary father Merovech as king of the Salian Franks of northern Gaul in 456, during Roman times. He became infatuated with the daughters of his subjects, who were so incensed about this that they forced him to give up the throne. He discovered that they intended to assassinate him, and he fled to Thuringia, leaving a close friend and telling him to send him amessage when Childeric could return to his kingdom.

Childeric took refuge with Bisinus, King of the Thuringian Franks, and his wife Basina. The king elected by the Franks was cruel, and soon after Childeric was re-called to his kingdom by his friend, and was restored to the throne. Once Bisinus and Childeric were both kings, Basina deserted her husband and went to live with Childeric, who married her and had a son Clovis.

After a battle with Odoacer, King of the Saxons (and conquerer of the Western Roman Empire, 476), at Orleans, Childeric and the Saxon king made a peace treaty and together subdued the Alamanni, who had invaded a part of Italy. In 481 Childeric died and was succeeded by Clovis, his son by Basina.

Childeric married Basina, Princess Of Thuringia in 464 in Germany. Basina (daughter of Banin Chlodwig I (King Of Cologne) and Basina Of Saxony) was born in 444 in Thuringia, Germany; died in 489. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Basina (Basine, Basina II), was queen of Thuringia in the middle of the fifth century. She left her husband king Bisinus (Basinus I) and went to Roman Gaul. She herself took the initiative to ask for the hand of Childeric I, king of the Franks, and married him. For as she herself said, "I want to have the most powerful man in the world". This remark of her may have been related to Childeric's successful invasion of the Roman Empire and his attempt to settle a Frankish kingdom on Roman soil.

Basina's name is probably Low Franconian for 'female boss'. She is the mother of the man who is remembered as the founder of the Frankish realm and modern France. She (not her husband Childeric) named her son Chlodovech, but he is better remembered under his Latinized name Clovis I. The simple fact that Chlodovech's name comes from Basina is remarkable since it was a common practice for the Franks to name a son after a member of the family of the male-line of ancestors. Through the ages historians have been intrigued by the story of Basina since she obviously acted as a player and not as bystander ? which is not uncommon for the women of the Franks, but highly uncommon for the Italians.

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Third son of Gundioc, King of the Burgundians - After succeeding hisfather with his three brothers, Chilperic II was killed by his brotherGundobad, along with his wife. His two daughters were driven into exile.

Chilperic II (Latin: Chilperikus; c. 450? 493 AD) was the King of Burgundy from 473 until his death. Before that he co-ruled with his father Gondioc beginning in 463. He began his reign in 473 after the partition of Burgundy with his younger brothers Godegisel, Gundobad, and Godomar; he ruled from Valentia Julia (Valence) and his brothers ruled respectively from Geneva, Vienne, and Lyon.

Sometime in the early 470s Chilperic was forced to submit to the authority of the Roman Empire by the magister militum Ecdicius Avitus. In 475 he probably sheltered an exiled Ecdicius after the Visigoths had obtained possession of the Auvergne.

After his brother Gundobad had removed his other brother Godomar (Gundomar) in 486, he turned on Chilperic. In 493 Gundobad assassinated Chilperic and drowned his wife, then exiled their two daughters, Chroma, who became a nun, and Clotilde, who fled to her uncle, Godegisel. When the Frankish king, Clovis I, requested the latter's hand in marriage, Gundobad was unable to decline. Clovis and Godegisel allied against Gundobad in a long, drawn-out civil war.

Chilperic married Caratene Of The Suevics (Agrippina De Narbonnaise) NARBONNE in 474 in Remu, Bourgogne, Burgundy, France. Caratene (daughter of Ricimer General Of The ROMAN EMPIRE and Alypia DI ROMA) was born in 448 in Spain; died on 6 Sep 506 in Bourgogne, Burgundy, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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event 0486, in Geneva. ?made her home, with her daughter Chrona, with her brother-in-law Godegeisel following her husbands death ? death 0506. ?She died "full of days", says her epitaph, having had the joy of seeing her children brought up in catholic religion. ABT 0486. ?Legend has it that she was killed by her brother-in-law, Gundobad, who had her sunk in water with a stone tied to her neck. The details of this are purely legendary and not based on fact.

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Merovech governed the Salic Franks, defeated "Attila the Hun" (in 451),and was son or son-in-law of Clodion. Before 430, the Salic Francstraverse the Escaut, and settle north of Gand [Gant] and also intoCourtrai. Their chief, Clodion, takes Cambrai in 430. When Clodion diedin 448, Merovee would succeed him as chief. Merovee was a FrankishPrince who ruled over the Saliennes [thus, this Merovee is King of theSalic Francs] from 452-458. He was the commander of the Francs in thegreat Battle of the Catalonic Fields, where he defeated Attila the Hun in451. It is from his name that the kings of the First Race derived theirname. The Huns had steadily increased their domination from humblebeginnings off the Caspian sea from Caucase to the Elbe, from Muldavia toHungary in the later part of the Fourth Century. During his reign, theEmpress of the Roman Empire, Galla Placidia, (in 423) governed in thename of her 4-year old son, Valentinius III. She put the Gallo-RomanAetius [who really came from Bulgaria [originally Silistria] in charge ofmaintaining the Roman authority over Gaule. Although unsuccessfulagainst the Wisigoths, Merovech pushed the Riparian Francs beyond theRhine. In 440, the Riparians would return and take over Cologne andTreves. In the meantime, the Burgundians settle in what would becomeBourgogne and in Savoie. In 443, they were camped around Worms andMayence under the command of their King, Gonthier. Merocech died in 458.

Born before 390, son of Arcadios Claudius Claudianus and Eudoxie, Meroveeis presumed to have been at least 15 years of age by the time his sonChilderic I was born. Married before 405: She was a concubine.

Before 430, the Salic Francs traverse the Escaut, and settle north ofGand [Gant] and also into Courtrai. Their chief, Clodion, takes Cambraiin 430. When Clodion died in 448, Merovee would succeed him as chief.Merovee was a Frankish Prince who ruled over the Saliennes [thus, thisMerovee is King of the Salic Francs] from 452-458. He was the commanderof the Francs in the great Battle of the Catalonic Fields, where hedefeated Attila the Hun in 451. It is from his name that the kings of theFirst Race derived their name. The Huns had steadily increased theirdomination from humble beginnings off the Caspian sea from Caucase to theElbe, from Muldavia to Hungary in the later part of the Fourth Century.

During his reign the Empress of the Roman Empire, Galla Placidia, in 423governed in the name of her 4-year old son, Valentinius III. She put theGallo-Roman Aetius [who really came from Bulgaria [originally Silistria]in charge of maintaining the Roman authority over Gaule.

Although he was unsuccessful against the Wisigoths, he pushed theRiparian Francs beyond the Rhine. In 440, the Riparians would return andtake over Cologne and Treves. In the meantime, the Burgundians settle inwhat would become Bourgogne and in Savoie. In 443, they are camped aroundWorms and Mayence under the command of their King, Gonthier. Died: in458. (Andre Castelot, Histoire de La France, Pages, 176, 200).

448 - Meroveus - "One of the greatest threats posed to the early RomanChurch prior to 751 was the royal Merovingian dynasty of Gaul. They weremale-line descendants of the Fisher Kings, with an ancestry tracing backto the family of Jesus and were named after their founder Meroveus, whomthe Franks had proclaimed their Guardian at Tournai in AD 448. TheMerovingians reigned by an ancient tradition of Messianic right andinheritance passed down from generations of ancestors. In keeping withthe Grail Code, they served as guardians of their people, rather thanterritorial overlords. Hence, they were styled 'Kings of the Franks', butnever Kings of France." [Laurence Gardner, Realm Of The Ring Lords]

Merovech married Chlodeswinthe (Vaerica Merica) RIPUAIRES. Chlodeswinthe (daughter of King Clovis Des Ripuaires Of The FRANKS and Hildegonde (Ildegonde) Of Cologne FRANCS) was born in 418-419 in Westphalia, Germany; died in 449. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Banin married Basina Of Saxony. Basina (daughter of Widelphe Of Saxony (King Of The Saxon) and Amalaberge Of The OSTROGOTHS) was born in 417 in Saxony, Germany; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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King of the Burgundians - On his death the kingdom was left to Gundobad,Godigisel, and Chilperic II. Chilperic II was quickly deposed, andGundobad and Godigisel were the main Burgundians leaders during theconquests of Clovis I, King of the Franks.

Gundioc married Cartamene Of The Suevics SUEVI in 449. Cartamene (daughter of Ermengaire (Edeko) (Nascien I - Caledoin) Of The Suevics (Prince Of The Septimania Midi) and (Daughter) Of Walia) was born in 432 in Spain; died in 506. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Flavius Ricimer (Ricomer) Of BURGUNDY
• Name: Ricimer (Rikimer) Nascien II Of SEPTIMANIA
• Name: Ricimer (Rikimer) Of The SUEVI
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• Titled: Between 456 and 472
• Event: 461
• Titled: Between 461 and 465
• Titled: Between 461 and 472

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Nascien was of the Burgundian royal family, the Gibichungs. Between 461& 465, he was Magister Militum in Gaul for Emperor Severus.

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General during the reigns of Valentian, Maximus, and Avitus

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Prince of Septimania (Nascien II)

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Arian Christian (Arianism)

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Commander of the forces of the Western Roman Empire

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Murdered Emperor Majorian

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Magister Militum in Gaul during the reign Emperor Severus

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De facto ruler of Rome

Ricimer married Alypia DI ROMA in 467. Alypia was born in 445 in Spain; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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