General Notes

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Also known as: Chlothar \ Chlotacher \ Lothar \ Clotaire
BET. 511 - 561 Roi De Soissons - 'The Old'
BET. 511 - 561 Roi De Neustria
BET. 558 - 561 Roi De Franks
Death 23 NOV 561
Death 565[JamesLinage.GED]

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WHWC after kingdom is divided in 511 between Cloodmus (including Burgundy & Orleans), Childebert (Paris), Thierry (Metz, Austrasia) and CLOTAIRE I (Neustria, Soissons), Clotaire I becomes sole ruler of combined Germany (Germania) and France (Gallia) around 558.  Kingdom is then again divided between Clotaire I's four sons, including Gontram (Burgundy and Orleans), Charibert (Paris), Sicibent (Australia, Metz), and Chilperic (Neustria) in 561.
ohme p 67 (continued from father Clovis) "The dying words of CLOTHAR I, by 561 the last surviving son of Clovis, were quite understandable:  'Wa! What kind of king is it in heaven, who kills off kings as great as me?'
ema p 308 "As Frankish custom mandated, on Clovis's death his enormous kingdom, which stretched from present-day Germany and Belgium to the Pyrenees, was divided among his four sons.  . . . Warfare among Clovis's sons disrupted the decades after his death, although the Franks succeeded in conquering Burgundy by 534 and in aquiring Provence by 536.  Union of the Frankish kingdoms of Neustria, Austrasia and Burgundy occurred only when a single heir survived, which happened in the case of Clovis's son CLOTHAR I (between 558 and 561), Clothar's grandson and namesake CHLOTHAR II (between 623 and 629) and Clothar II's son DAGOBERT (between 629 and 638 or 639)."[lanastl.ged]

1.  Chlothar I acceded 511.  King of Soissons.

Note:
FROM: www.encyclopedia.com

Clotaire I
klotâr , d. 561, Frankish king, son of Clovis I. On his father's death (511) he and his brothers received equal shares of the Frankish kingdom. His capital was at Soissons. In 524 he and his brother Childebert I divided the kingdom of their deceased brother Clodomir, whose children they murdered. With his brother Theodoric he conquered Thuringia. In 534 Clotaire and Childebert seized and divided the First Kingdom of Burgundy, and in 542 they attacked the Visigoths of Spain but were repulsed before Zaragoza. The deaths of Theodebald, Theodoric's grandson (555), and of Childebert (558) made Clotaire sole king of the Franks. His sons Chilperic I and Sigebert I inherited Neustria and Austrasia respectively; his sons Charibert and Guntram divided the remainder of the kingdom.[46438.ged]

At the time of his father's death, he received Soissons, Laon, Noyon, and the old Frankish country: Cambrai, Tournai, and the lower side of the Meuse.

One source records that Clotaire Clothar) had an incestuous relationship with his wife's sister. The
"History of the Franks" shows the relationship as a "marriage."Note:

1. Chlothar (aka Clotaire) acceded 511 King of Soissons (Neustria).

2. Excerpt from "The Franks" by Godefroi Kurth, Transcribed by Michael C. Tinkler, from "The Catholic Encyclopedia", Volume VI, Copyright  1909 by Robert Appleton Company, Online Edition Copyright  1999 by Kevin Knight, Nihil Obstat, September 1, 1909. Remy Lafort, Censor Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York (full text in Clodian's notes):

The death of Theudebert, in 548, was soon followed by that of his son Theobald (Theudebald), in 555, and by the death of Childebert in 558, Clotaire (Chlotar I), the last of the four brothers, becoming sole heir to the estate of his father, Clovis (Chlodovech I). Clotaire (Chlotar I) reduced the Saxons and Bavarians to a state of vassalage, and died in 561 leaving four sons; once more the monarchy was divided, being partitioned in about the same way as on the death of Clovis (Chlodovech I) in 511: Gontran (Guntramm) reigned at Orléans, Charibert at Paris, Sigebert at Reims, and Chilperic at Soissons.