Ancestral Trails 2016 » CHILDERIC OF THE MEROVINGIANS (445-481)

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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 445 in North Rhine, Westphalia, Prussia.
• Titel: King of the Salian Franks
• (Alternative Name) : Childeric Merovingia I.
• (Ancestry) : Merovingian Dynasty.
• Hij is overleden op 26 november 481 in Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium, hij was toen 36 jaar oud.Bron 1
• Een kind van MEROVECH OF THE MEROVINGIANS en VERONICA von WESTPHALIA

Gezin van CHILDERIC OF THE MEROVINGIANS

Hij is getrouwd met BASINA ANDOVERA von THURINGIA.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 463 te Germany, hij was toen 18 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Lanthechilde of The FRANKS  468-????
2. Albofledis of The FRANKS  470-± 500
3. CLOVIS I OF THE MEROVINGIANS  466-511 
4. AUDOFLEDA OF THE FRANKS  467-535 

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Notities over CHILDERIC OF THE MEROVINGIANS

Childeric I (c. 440 - 481/482) was a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks and the father of Clovis I, who would unite the Franks and found the Merovingian dynasty.

Childeric succeeded his father Merovech as king of the Salian Franks, traditionally in 457 or 458. By 457 at the latest he was the ruler of the Franks in the territory covering Tournai and the Lys valley. He may have had power over further territories to the south, but the sources are unclear on this. According to Gregory of Tours, Childeric was exiled at some point, the reason being traditionally given as Frankish unhappiness with Childeric's private life. Gregory further records that the Franks recalled Childeric after 8 years of exile.

In 463 Childeric fought in conjunction with the Roman General Aegidius, the magister militum of northern Gaul based in Soissons, to defeat the Visigoths, who had hoped to extend their dominion along the banks of the Loire River. After the death of Aegidius, Childeric assisted Comes ("count") Paul of Angers, together with a mixed band of Gallo-Romans and Franks, in defeating the Goths and taking booty. Saxon raiders under the command of Odoacer reached Angers and captured it, but Childeric and Count Paul retook the city in 469. Childeric, having delivered Angers, followed a Saxon warband to the islands on the Atlantic mouth of the Loire, and massacred them there. In the period around 476 to 481, he and Odoacer were discussing the possibility of an alliance against the Alamanni who wished to invade Italy.

Gregory of Tours, in Libri Historiarum (Book ii.12), records the story of the expulsion of Childeric by the Salian Franks for seducing their wives. He was exiled for eight years in Thuringia with King Basin and his wife, Queen Basina. He returned only when a faithful servant advised him that he could safely do so by sending him half of a gold piece that Childeric had split with him before his exile. In the meantime, according to Gregory, Aegidius himself took up the title of king of the Franks. Upon his return Childeric was joined by the wife of his host, Queen Basina, who bore Childeric his son Clovis.

Marriage, children, and death
Gregory of Tours, in his History of the Franks, mentions several siblings of Clovis within his narrative, meaning that the following list of children of Childeric is known.

Clovis I (died 511), whose mother was Basina.
Audofleda, Queen of the Ostrogoths, wife of Theodoric the Great. Gregory III also mentions their daughter Amalasuntha.
Lanthechild. Gregory II.31 mentions she had been an Arian but converted to Catholicism with Clovis.
Albofleda (died approximately 500). Gregory II mentions that she died soon after being baptized with Clovis.

Childeric died in 481 or 482 (based on Gregory's reports that his son Clovis died in 511 and ruled 30 years) and was buried in Tournai. His son Clovis succeeded him as king of the Salian Franks.

Childeric's tomb was discovered in 1653 not far from the 12th-century church of Saint-Brice in Tournai, Belgium. Numerous precious objects were found, including jewels of gold and garnet cloisonné, gold coins, a gold bull's head, and a ring with the king's name inscribed. Some 300 golden bees or cicadas were also found which had been placed on the king's cloak. Archduke Leopold William, governor of the Southern Netherlands (today's Belgium), had the find published in Latin. The treasure went first to the Habsburgs in Vienna, then as a gift to Louis XIV, who was not impressed with the treasure and stored it in the royal library, which became the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during the Revolution. Napoleon was more impressed with Childeric's bees and when he was looking for a heraldic symbol to trump the Bourbon fleur-de-lys, he settled on Childeric's bees as symbols of the French Empire.

On the night of November 5-6, 1831, the treasure of Childeric was among 80 kilos of treasure stolen from the Library and melted down for the gold. A few pieces were retrieved from where they had been hidden in the Seine, including two of the bees. The record of the treasure, however, now exists only in the fine engravings made at the time of its discovery and in some reproductions made for the Habsburgs. SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childeric_I


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