Ancestral Trails 2016 » CLOTHAIRE de SOISSONS (497-561)

Persoonlijke gegevens CLOTHAIRE de SOISSONS 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 497 in Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, France.
• Titel: King of the Franks, King of Orléans, King of Paris
• Titel: King of Soissons, 4th Archduke of Austrasia
• (Nickname) : "The Old".
• (Alternative Name) : Chlotharius I of Merovingia, Chlothaire I de Neustria.
• (Ancestry) : Merovingian Dynasty.
• Hij is overleden op 29 november 561 in Compiegne, Oise, Ile-de-France, France, hij was toen 64 jaar oud.

  Acute Pneumonia

• Een kind van CLOVIS I OF THE MEROVINGIANS en CLOTHILDE de BURGUNDY

Gezin van CLOTHAIRE de SOISSONS

(1) Hij is getrouwd met AREGUNDE von THURINGIA.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 533, hij was toen 36 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. BILCHILDE de NEUSTRIA  533-> 561 
2. CHILPERIC de SOISSONS  < 539-584 

(2) Hij heeft/had een relatie met INGONDE von THURINGIA.

Kind(eren):

1. Chlothsind de NEUSTRIA  ± 535-± 566 
2. SIGEBERT de AUSTRASIA  ± 533-575 
3. CHARIBERT de PARIS  ± 517-567 
4. Guntram de NEUSTRIA  ± 532-???? 

(3) Hij is getrouwd met Guntheuc d'ORLEANS.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 525.

(4) Hij had een relatie met WALTRUDE de LOMBARDY.

(5) Hij is getrouwd met Radegund von THURINGIA.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 532 te Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France.

Notities over CLOTHAIRE de SOISSONS

Chlothar I (c. 497 - 29 November 561), also called Clotaire I and the Old (le Vieux), King of the Franks, was one of the four sons of Clovis I of the Merovingian dynasty.

Frankish customs of the day usually allowed for a man to practice polygamy, especially royalty. It was not uncommon, therefore, to see a king with multiple wives and several competing heirs upon his death. This was a major deviation from late Roman customs influenced by the Church of practicing monogamy. Frankish rulers largely practiced this to increase their influence across larger areas of land, since it was in the wake of the collapse of Rome. The aim was to maintain peace and ensure the preservation of the kingdom by appeasing several local leaders.

In much of the Germanic tradition, succession fell not to sons, but to younger brothers, and perhaps uncles and cousins. However Clovis I instituted, under Salic law, the custom of sons being the primary heirs in all respects. However it was not a system of primogeniture, with the eldest son receiving the vast majority of an inheritance, rather it was split evenly between all sons. Therefore the greater Frankish Kingdom was often splintered into smaller sub-kingdoms.

Chlothar was the fifth son of Clovis and the fourth of Queen Clotilde. The name 'Chlothar' means "glory". Chlothar was born around 497 in Soissons. On the death of his father on 27 November 511, he received, as his share of the kingdom, the town of Soissons, which he made his capital; the cities of Laon, Noyon, Cambrai, and Maastricht; and the lower course of the Meuse River. But he was very ambitious, and sought to extend his domain.

According to Gregory of Tours, "The King Chlothar had seven sons of various women, namely: with Ingund he had Gunthar, Childeric, Charibert, Guntram, Sigebert, and a daughter named Chlothsind; of Aregund, sister of Ingund he had Chilperic; and of Chunsine he had Chram."

Chlothar's first marriage was to Guntheuc, widow of his own brother Chlodomer, sometime around 524. They had no children. His second marriage, which occurred around 532, was to Radegund, daughter of Bertachar, King of Thuringia, whom he and his brother Theuderic defeated. She was later canonized. They also had no children. His third and most successful marriage was to Ingund, by whom he had five sons and two daughters:

Gunthar, predeceased father
Childeric, predeceased father
Charibert, King of Paris
Guntram, King of Burgundy
Sigebert, King of Austrasia
Chlothsind, married Alboin, King of the Lombards

He likely had an illegitimate son named Gondovald with an unnamed woman, born sometime in the late 540s or early 550s. Since Chlothar had sown children all throughout Gaul this was not unlikely. The boy was given a literary education and allowed to grow his hair long, a symbol of belonging to royalty. Although Chlothar would offer no more aid or privilege to the boy, his mother took him to the court of Childebert who recognized him as his nephew and agreed to keep him in court.

His next marriage was to a sister of Ingund, Aregund, with whom he had a son, Chilperic, King of Soissons. His last wife was Chunsina (or Chunsine), with whom he had one son, Chram, who became his father's enemy and predeceased him. Chlothar may have married and repudiated Waldrada

Chlothar financed the construction of the monastery of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers which folds Radegund and transferred reliquaries that the queen had accumulated during her stay with the king to the monastery of St. Croix.

At the end of his reign, the Frankish kingdom was at its peak, covering the whole of Gaul (except Septimania) and part of present-day Germany. He died at the end of 561 of acute pneumonia at 64, leaving his kingdom to his four sons who went to bury him at Soissons, in the Basilica of St. Marie where he had started to build the tomb of St. Médard.

A false genealogy found in the Brabant trophies, made in the ninth century during the reign of Charles the Bald, invents a daughter of Chlothar's named Blithilde who supposedly married Ansbert of Rouen, son of Ironwood III. From this marriage was born Duke Arnoald, father of Arnulf of Metz, thus connecting the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties, creating the appearance that the Carolingian ruled by right of inheritance, and also linking them to the Romans by their affiliation with the senatorial family Ferreoli.
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlothar_I

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