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Carney & Wehofer Family
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| Name |
Clovis |
| Gender |
Male |
| _UID |
8521979CA21444699246144E12353E9A95AF |
| Died |
580 |
| Person ID |
I8587 |
Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy |
| 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 |
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| 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.
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