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1  NAME St. Clothilda (Clotild) of /Burgundy/ 2  SOUR S033320 3  DATA4TEXT Date of Import: J an 17, 2001 1  NAME St. Clothilde /of Burgundy/1DEAT 2  DATE 3 JUN 548 2  PLAC Tours, Ingre- et-Loire, France

Sources: RC 303, 349; AF; Kraentzler 1636, 1667, 1778, 1780; "theFranks"by Edward James; Pfa fman.
   Franks: Chrodechildis, or Clotild in modern French; aCatholicChristian, daughter of a for mer Burgundian king. Her familymembers werenot Christians. They were Arians, who did not bel ieve in theequality ofpersons in the Trinity. She probably was responsible forpushing Clovi sinto becoming a Christian.
   the Church of the Holy Apostles--where Clotild, Clovis andtheirdaughter were buried--wa s later named after St. Genevieve, who alsowasburied there.
   K: Saint Clothilde de Bourgogne.
   K-1657: Chrotechilde von Altburgund (Old Bourgogne).
   Pfafman: Clothilda (Clothild) of Burgundy. Second wife ofClovis.Canonized after her death .Clotilda was responsible for theconversion ofher husband to Christianity. After he died i n 511 sheentered a monasteryat Tours. She was canonized a few years after herdeath. Her rem ains wereburied in the Church of Saint Genevive in Paris.Her tradition al feastday is June 3 . "Clotilda, Saint," Microsoft (R)Encarta. Copyright (c )1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copyrig ht (c) 1994Funk & Wagnall'sCorporation

Descendants of Charlemagne data base, English version.  Wife of
Clovis
Magnis, married in 492.  Conflicting dates of death 548 and 551.  Two
children.

Clothilde de Heilige, Prinses van Bourgondil.  Clothildus.

GenServ database SMIA7MT, December 1998.  Died 3 June 548.

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Descendants of Charlemagne data base, English version.  Wife of
Clovis
Magnis, married in 492.  Conflicting dates of death 548 and 551.  Two
children.

Clothilde de Heilige, Prinses van Bourgondil.  Clothildus.

GenServ database SMIA7MT, December 1998.  Died 3 June 548.

From the "selvage1" database at WorldConnect.  Please contactPetersonC@missouri.edu with corrections and additions.

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     Also spelled Clotilde, Chlothilde, Chlotilde, Chrodechilde,Chrodigild, or Chrotechildis  queen consort of Clovis I, king of theFranks, in whose momentous conversion to Christianity she played anotable part.
     Clotilda was the granddaughter of Gundioc, king of Burgundy, who wasrelated to the
Visigothic kings and shared their Arian Christian faith. At Gundioc'sdeath his kingdom was divided between his four sons, Gundobad, Godegesil,Chilperic, and Gundomar.  Clotilda's father Chilperic and her mother weremurdered by Gundobad, and Clotilda and her sister took refuge withGodegesil in Geneva. Clovis, hearing good reports of Clotilda, obtainedGundobad's permission for their marriage in 493. She bore him four sons,Ingomer and the future kings Clodomir, Childebert I, and Chlotar I.
     Clotilda was tireless in urging her husband to renounce his idolsand acknowledge the true God; his final decision (498?) was made tohonour a vow taken during a battle against the Alemanni. After Clovis'death (511), she retired to Tours and became famous for her sanctity oflife, generosity to the church, and charity work. She was buried besideClovis in the church, now Sainte-Geneviève, that they had cofounded inParis.

To cite this page:  "Clotilda," Encyclopædia Britannica
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Clothilde (Clotilda) of Burgundy (afterwards St. Clothilde), born 475,died at Tours in 545, "the girl of
the French Vineyards". She was the daughter of Gond ebaud (ChilpericII.?), King of Burgundy. She was Arian by religion, but
with strong Roman Catholic tendencies.

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ema p 307 "According to Gregory of Tours, [CLOVIS] was persuaded to[convert to Christianity] by his Christian wife Clotild, granddaughter ofKing Gundioc of Burgundy, whose son, Clodild's father, had been killed byhis own brother.  Clovis married her in 493, and Gregory presents hissubsequent conversion as a desperate measure, taken in hopes ofpreventing the total annihilation of his army by the Alemanni.   . . ."
ewh p 172 ". . . a Burgundian, Clotila, who was of the Roman communion.The Burgundians in general were Arians, and Clovis' choice may have beendeliberate."[JamesLinage.GED]

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ema p 307 "According to Gregory of Tours, [CLOVIS] was persuaded to[convert to Christianity] by his Christian wife Clotild, granddaughter ofKing Gundioc of Burgundy, whose son, Clodild's father, had been killed byhis own brother.  Clovis married her in 493, and Gregory presents hissubsequent conversion as a desperate measure, taken in hopes ofpreventing the total annihilation of his army by the Alemanni.   . . ."
ewh p 172 ". . . a Burgundian, Clotila, who was of the Roman communion.The Burgundians in general were Arians, and Clovis' choice may have beendeliberate."[Direct Linage1.FTW]

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ema p 307 "According to Gregory of Tours, [CLOVIS] was persuaded to[convert to Christianity] by his Christian wife Clotild, granddaughter ofKing Gundioc of Burgundy, whose son, Clodild's father, had been killed byhis own brother.  Clovis married her in 493, and Gregory presents hissubsequent conversion as a desperate measure, taken in hopes ofpreventing the total annihilation of his army by the Alemanni.   . . ."
ewh p 172 ". . . a Burgundian, Clotila, who was of the Roman communion.The Burgundians in general were Arians, and Clovis' choice may have beendeliberate."