General Notes

Alias:<ALIA> King of The /Franks/
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> ES:I-1, 9GBK-H7
REFN: 6049
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ohme p 65 (continued from VALENTINIAN III)  "A new direction in northern
Gaul came with the emergence of CHILDERIC as king of one group of
Franks.  Although our information about him is scanty, it seems that he
collaborated with the Romans--or with one group of Romans--against the
Visigoths and the Saxons of the Loire, that (although a pagan) he
co-operated with the Gallic Church, and that he laid the foundations of
the kingdom which his descendants were to rule for the following three
centuries.  In the confused years which followed the death of the last
generally accepted western emperor in 455 (VALENTINIAN III), and still
more after the deposition of the last resident western emperor in 476,
Childeric must have seemed a natural ruler to many in northern Gaul.  He
died in 481/2 and was buried at Tournai, in a grave which reveals some
aspects of his power:  several hundred gold coins minted in
Constantinople, sent perhaps as a subsidy, and a gold brooch like those
worn by Roman generals."
Head of chart on p. 66.
WHWC Belgium or Flanders joins Merovingian Dynasty during Childeric's
reign.
ema p 307 "Childeric was the first Frankish king about whom Gregory of
Tours could find substantial information.  According to Gregory, he was
best known for seducing his subjects' daughters and for marrying the king
of Thuringia's wife, who bore him a son, CLOVIS I."
ewh p 172 "King Childeric (d. 481) fought as a federate of the empire at
Orleans when Aetius defeated the Visigoths, and he later defeated the
Saxons on the Loire.  His tomb was found (1653) at Tournai, the "capital"
of the Salians."
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[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
[MassachusettsRSHALL.FTW]
SOURCE NOTES:
Burns, Thomas S, A History of the Ostrogoths, Bloomington, IN: Indiana
Univ
Press, 1984.  SF Library 940.1 B9375h.
Previte-Orton, C. W., The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge:
University Press, 1952.  Chatham 940.1PRE.
Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Euroopaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur
Geschichte
der europaischen Staaten, New Series, Marburg: J.A. Stargardt, 1978-.
Settipani, Christian, Les Ancetres De Charlemagne, 1989, and, Settipani,
Christian, and Patrick van Kerrebrouck, La Prehistoire des Capetiens,
1993, as
transcribed by Gilles Houdry, Aug 1994.  Roots-l genealog.charlanc[1-7]
Tapsell, R. F., Monarchs, Rulers, Dynasties and Kingdoms of the World. New
York: Facts on File Publications, 1983.
Wagner, Anthony, Pedigree and Progress, Essays in the Genealogical
Interpretation of History, London, Philmore, 1975.  Rutgers Alex CS4.W33.
RESEARCH NOTES:
456: Salic Franks' King [Ref: Settipani CharlAnc]
c457: King of France and Rhineland, Merovingian Dynasty [Ref: Tapsell
p169]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: abt 435 [Ref: Settipani CharlAnc], parents: [Ref: Settipani
CharlAnc]
SOURCE NOTES:
date: [Ref: CMH p154, Tapsell p169] 481/2 [Ref: Settipani CharlAnc] occ
481
[Ref: ES I #1], note: [Ref: Wurts p433][MassachusettsRSHALL.FTW]
SOURCE NOTES:
Burns, Thomas S, A History of the Ostrogoths, Bloomington, IN: Indiana
Univ
Press, 1984.  SF Library 940.1 B9375h.
Previte-Orton, C. W., The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge:
University Press, 1952.  Chatham 940.1PRE.
Schwennicke, Detlev, ed., Euroopaische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur
Geschichte
der europaischen Staaten, New Series, Marburg: J.A. Stargardt, 1978-.
Settipani, Christian, Les Ancetres De Charlemagne, 1989, and, Settipani,
Christian, and Patrick van Kerrebrouck, La Prehistoire des Capetiens,
1993, as
transcribed by Gilles Houdry, Aug 1994.  Roots-l genealog.charlanc[1-7]
Tapsell, R. F., Monarchs, Rulers, Dynasties and Kingdoms of the World. New
York: Facts on File Publications, 1983.
Wagner, Anthony, Pedigree and Progress, Essays in the Genealogical
Interpreta