General Notes

1  NAME /Clothar/I, Chlothar
WHWC after kingdom is divided in 511 between Cloodmus (including Burgun
dy & Orleans), Childebert (Paris), Thierry (Metz, Austrasia) and CLOTAI
RE I (Neustria, Soissons), Clotaire I becomes sole ruler of combined Germa
ny (Germania) and France (Gallia) around 558.  Kingdom is then again divid
ed between Clotaire I's four sons, including Gontram (Burgundy and Orleans
), Charibert (Paris), Sicibent (Australia, Metz), and Chilperic (Neustri
a) in 561.
ohme p 67 (continued from father Clovis) "The dying words of CLOTH
AR I, by 561 the last surviving son of Clovis, were quite understandabl
e:  'Wa! What kind of king is it in heaven, who kills off kings as gre
at as me?'
ema p 308 "As Frankish custom mandated, on Clovis's death his enormous kin
gdom, which stretched from present-day Germany and Belgium to the Pyrenee
s, was divided among his four sons.  . . . Warfare among Clovis's sons dis
rupted the decades after his death, although the Franks succeeded in conqu
ering Burgundy by 534 and in aquiring Provence by 536.  Union of the Frank
ish kingdoms of Neustria, Austrasia and Burgundy occurred only when a sing
le heir survived, which happened in the case of Clovis's son CLOTHAR I (be
tween 558 and 561), Clothar's grandson and namesake CHLOTHAR II (between 6
23 and 629) and Clothar II's son DAGOBERT (between 629 and 638 or 639)."