Clotilde (Merovingian) Franken (502 - 531)

Born 0502 in Rheims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France

Ancestors

Wife of Amalareiks Visigoth — married 0511 in Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France

Died 0531 at about age 29 in Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, France

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According to Gregory of Tours, Clotilde was abused by her Visigoth husband, Amalric.[1] While some believe that Gregory's religious agenda, filters the actual details,[2] ...we do know that Clotilde tried to go home. But she never made it, and died on the way to France. She was buried next to her father, at Saint Genevieve in Paris.[3]

Vitals

Chrothieldis (Clotilde)^[1] b. 502/11

d. 531 (en route to France)^[1]

bur. Basilique des Saints-Apôtres, Paris[4]^[1][2]

Parents

Chlodovech (Clovis) m.2 (492) Chrotechildis (Clotilde / Rotilde) of Burgundy^[3]

Father: Clovis

(son of Childerich, King of the Franks)

Mother: Clotilde (480 - 544 or 548 Monastery of Saint Martin; bur. basilique des Saints-Apôtres, Paris)

(Father: Chilperich, King of Burgundy)

Marriage

m. (511) Amalric (502 - 531), King of the Visigoths (p. Alaric II and Theodegotha of the Ostrogoths). No issue.[5]^[4]

Sources

Gregory of Tours

Cawley, C. (2006). Medieval Lands v.3. [6]

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1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Gregory of Tours
2. ↑ later église de Sainte-Geneviève (Cawley, 2006)
3. ↑ Resolution of ambiguous parentage:

   Medieval genealogy is not exact, and virtual collaboration occasionally faces choices where print does not. Parents (or lack of) are decided in accordance with European Aristocrats project, by consulting primary sources, especially as collected in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy’s Medieval Lands project.

4. ↑ Gregory of Tours; Procopius (Cawley, 2006)

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