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Clothild notes[edit]
McNamara
p. 38:
After Genevieve's death, Clothild was able to honour her grave for Genevieve's part in the conversion of Clothild's husband Clovis I.
Daughter of a Gallo-Roman woman and Chilperic, a Burgundian king, who might have been converted to Christianity by his wife. "She and her daughter, Clothild, set a pattern for a chain of Catholic female missionaries to the courts of the pagan and Arian kings they married".
"Clothild's life includes the sad story of her daughter and namesake, who vainly tried to win over her Visigothic husband".
p. 39:
Clothild's vita makes brief references to Clovis' relations with her Burgundian relatives "and gives no hint that [Clovis] he himself may have been an Arian sympathizer before his marriage".
Her uncle Gundobad was an Arian and probably had a "reasonably friendly relationship with the Gallo-Roman bishops in his kingdom". He sometimes was at war with Clovis, and sometimes was his ally, "but his religion does not appear to have hampered control of his own kingdom". Gundobad's son was converted to Catholicism, but he was killed by Clothild's sons.
"Clothild's story continued to fascinate succeeding generations as the centerpiece of a struggle between the old Catholic, Roman population against the Arianism of the Germanic tribes".
p. 40:
After Clovis' death, Clothild "became closely associated with the diocese of Tours, where she spent most of her time near the tomb of Saint Martin, most popular of all the Gallo-Roman saints".
Clovis died in 511; Clothild died in 544. "The vita outlines the tragic lives of some of her children but makes no mention of her daughter Telechild (Teutechild), who became a nun".
Cath. Encyclopedia
Queen of the Franks.
Died at Tours, 3 June 545. Feast day June 3. Wife of Clovis I, daughter of Chilperic II of Burgundy. Her sister, Sedeleuba (or Chrona), who became a nun, founded the church of Saint-Victor.
Given a religious training by her mother, Caretena, "who according to Sidonius Apollinaris and Fortunatus of Poitiers, was a remarkable woman". Shortly after Caretena's death, Clovis and Clotilde were married.
The marriage of Clovis and Clotilde, from the 6th century on, "was made the theme of epic narratives, in which the original facts were materially altered". These versions made their way into the works of Frankish chroniclers, such as Gregory of Tours, Fredegarius, and in the Liber Historiae Francorum.
Clotilde persuaded Clovis to convert to Catholicism. She was able to persuade him to allow the baptism of their two eldest sons, the oldest of which died in infancy before his conversion, which occurred "under highly dramatic circumstances". Clovis was baptized by St. Remigius at Reims in 496. The Franks, due to Clotilde's influence, were Catholics for centuries.
Clotilde and Clovis had five children: four sons, Ingomir, who died in infancy, and Kings Clodomir, Childebert, and Clotaire, and one daughter, named Clotilde after her mother. Little is known about Clotilde during Clovis' lifetime, but she might have been involved with his intervention of the quarrel between the Burgundian kings at the time and Clovis' support of Gondobad.
Clovis died in 511; Clotilde buried him at the Basilica of the Holy Apostles, which later became the Church of Sainte-Geneviève, which they built together as a mausoleum, and which Clothild completed after his death.
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Common citations:[edit]
Watkins [1]
Butler [2]
Saintly Women [3]
Baring-Gould [4]
- ^ Watkins, Basil (2015). The Book of Saints: A Comprehensive Biographical Dictionary (8th ed.). London: Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-567-66415-0.
- ^ Butler, Alban (1995). Butler's Lives of the Saints (2 ed.). Westminster, Maryland: Liturgical Press. p. 470. ISBN 0814623778. OCLC 33824974.
- ^ Dunbar, Agnes B.C. (1901). A Dictionary of Saintly Women. Vol. 1. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 237.
- ^ Baring-Gould, Sabine (1877). The Lives of the Saints (3rd ed.). London: J. Hodges. p. 57.