General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> Chrotechilde /de Bourgogn/,Chrodigild,St. Clotilda
Some sources list her death in 548 or 554.
According to HISTORY TODAY
(http://www.findarticles.com/m1373/5_49/54700553/pl/article.jhtml) by
Simon Coastes Issue: May, 1999 from THE SYMBOLISM OF A MEDIEVAL HAIRCUT:
"Whilst residing in Paris in the sixth century, Queen Clotild (d. 554),
the widow of the Merovingian ruler Clovis, became the unwilling subject
of the inveterate plotting of her sons, Lothar and Childebert, who were
jealous of her guardianship of her grandsons, the children of their
brother, Chlodomer...The Merovingian kins, who had established themselves
in the ruins of Roman Gaul, were known as the Reges criniti, the
long-haired kings.  For them, their long hair symbolised not only their
aristocratic status but also their status as kings.  It was invested with
a sacral quality and believed to contain magical properties...The
obituary of the long-haried kings was written into the history of the
family who supplanted them in 751, the Carolingians...The relationship
between long hair and high birth was an ancient one and was present in
societies other then Merovingian Gaul.  In Ireland, for example, cropped
hair denoted a servant or slave.  Tacitus had noted the importance of
long hair in early Germanic society, commenting that it was the sign of
free men.  Hair colour, too, bore social significance.  In the Irish
epic, Tain bo Cuailnge, King Conchobar has golden hair which is
associated with royalty, while brown and black hair are also attributed
to chieftains and heroes..."