Clovis

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• Name	Clovis
  Gender	Male
  _UID	8521979CA21444699246144E12353E9A95AF
  Death	580
  Person ID	I8587	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	King Chilperic I (King Of Neustrie) FRANCS,   b. 536, Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France d. Sep 584, Chelles, Neustria, France (Age 48 years)
  Mother	Audovera,   b. 530   d. 580 (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F4331	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Clovis was the son of King Chilperic I of Soissons by one of his firstwives. In 567, when his uncle King Charibert of Paris died, he and hisfather attacked King Sigebert's (another brother of Chilperic) share ofthe kingdom of Paris, and Clovis was left in command at Tours. In 573,Sigulf, one of Sigebert's generals, drove Clovis out of Tours and re-tookthe city and forced him to take exile in Bordeaux. He then went to Rouenwith his step-mother Queen Fredegund, but the two were driven out in 576by King Chilperic and Clovis' brother Merovech. Chilperic then orderedClovis to march on Tours, and he took the cities of Touraine, Anjou, andSaintes. In 580 there was a major dysentery epidemic in all of Gaul inwhich Chilperic and Fredegund lost all of their children except Clovis.They then ordered Clovis to go to Berny, where the epidemic was stillactive, with hopes of killing him as well. He didn't catch the disease,so Fredegund had Clovis and his mother Audovera killed, and his sisterBasina put into a nunnery.