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Spouse: Ebenezer HARRIS. Ebenezer HARRIS and Abigail were married. Children were: Ebenezer HARRIS, James HARRIS, Emor HARRIS, Edward HARRIS.
Adelbert was born about 454. He died in 491. He has Ancestral File Number 8HR9-RV.
Children were: Wambert.
King Aethelwulf of England1 was born in 800. He died on Jan 13, 857/58. Parents: King Ecgbert III of Wessex and Redburga.
Spouse: Redburga. King Aethelwulf of England and Redburga were married about 830. Children were: King Alfred the Great of West Saxons.
Agnes.
Spouse: John WEBSTER. John WEBSTER and Agnes were married. Children were: Robert WEBSTER.
Agnes.
Spouse: William Sir FOLIOT. Children were: Katherine FOLIOT.
Agnes.
Spouse: William QUATREMAIN. Children were: William QUATREMAIN.
Agnes1 was born about 1506.
Spouse: John WHATLOCK. Children were: Thomas WHATLOCK.
Agnes1 was born about 1506. She died on Nov 17, 1569 in Henlow, Bedford, England. She was a REFN: 8WRW-NN.
Spouse: HURST. Children were: William HURST.
Agnes1 was born about 1519 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. She died on Jun 1, 1582 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. She was buried on Jun 7, 1582 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. She was a REFN: 9CNB-KF.
Spouse: William TYLLE. William TYLLE and Agnes were married about 1534 in Henlow, Bedfordshire, England. Children were: Robert TILLEY (TILLE), Elizabeth TYLLE, Mary TYLLE, Alice TYLLE.
King Alfred the Great of West Saxons1 was born in 849 in Wamtage, Dorset, England. He died on Oct 28, 899. Parents: King Aethelwulf of England and Redburga.
Spouse: Ealhswith OF THE GAINI. King Alfred the Great of West Saxons and Ealhswith OF THE GAINI were married in 868 in Winchester, England. Children were: King Edward The Elder of England.
Alice.
Spouse: Samuel ALBRO. Children were: Samuel II ALBRO.
Alice.
Spouse: Walter TAVERNER. Children were: Katherine TAVERNER, Walter TAVERNER, John TAVERNER, Ralph TAVERNER, Alice TAVERNER, Jane TAVERNER.
Alice.
Spouse: John FULLER. Children were: William FULLER.
Alice was born about 1470.
Spouse: John IGGLEDEN. Children were: William IGGLEDEN.
Alice2 was born about 1571.3
Spouse: Isaac PERKINS. Isaac PERKINS and Alice were married.3 Children were: Abraham PERKINS.
Alpaide was born about 654 in Heristal, Liege, Belgium. She died in Orplegrandmonast, Brabant, Vosges, France. She has Ancestral File Number 9GC9-JD.
Spouse: Pepin, Mayor of AUSTRASIA. Children were: Childebrand AUSTRASIA, Mayor Charles Martel of AUSTRASIA.
Althildis has Ancestral File Number 8HR8-QK. Parents: Coel or Coilus.
Spouse: Marcomir IV. Children were: Clodmir IV.
Alys.
Spouse: John ADAMS. Children were: Henry ADAMS.
Amy.
Spouse: Clarence RICHARDS. Clarence RICHARDS and Amy were married. Children were: Marion RICHARDS.
Ann was born about 1514 of Reden Hall, Norfolk, England.
Spouse: John FULLER. John FULLER and Ann were married about 1533. Children were: Robert FULLER, Alice FULLER, John FULLER.
Ann was born about 1555 in Gorton, manchester, Lancashire, England. She died in 1622/23. She was buried on Nov 1, 1623 in Cathedral Church, manchester, Lancs., Eng.. She is reference number 9WCN-3K.
Spouse: Thomas GORTON. Thomas GORTON and Ann were married in , , England. Children were: Katherine GORTON, INFANT GORTON, GORTON, William GORTON, Thomas GORTON, Francis GORTON, Edward (Or Edmund) GORTON, Mary GORTON, Samuel GORTON.
Ann was born about 1580 in England.
Spouse: William TEFFT. William TEFFT and Ann were married in Of Providence, providence, Rhode Island. Children were: John TEFFT.
Anne. Parents: John Esq. RAYNSFORD and Alice DANVERS.
Anne.
Spouse: Robert THEMBER. Children were: Joanna THEMBER (OR KEMBER).
Anne was born in 1518 in manchester, Lancashire, England. She has Ancestral File Number 9WCN-GG.
Spouse: Thomas GORTON. Children were: Nicholas GORTON, Thomas GORTON, Richard GORTON, James GORTON, Alice GORTON, James GORTON.
Argotta2 was born about 376. She has Ancestral File Number 8HR9-M6.
Spouse: Pharamond. Pharamond and Argotta were married in 394. Children were: King Clodius of WESTPHALIA.
Arnoldus was born about 532 in Heristal, Austrasia, France. He died in 601. He has Ancestral File Number 8HR9-ZW. Parents: Ausbert and Blithildis.
Spouse: Oda of Saxony. Arnoldus and Oda of Saxony were married in 581 in Heristal, Austrasia, France. Children were: St Arnoul Bishop of METZ.
Ausbert was born about 506. He has Ancestral File Number 8HR9-WK. Parents: Wambert.
Spouse: Blithildis. Children were: Arnoldus.
Barbara.
Spouse: Gordon SCHAEFER. Gordon SCHAEFER and Barbara were married. Children were: Pamela Jean SCHAEFER.
Bartherus died in 272. He has Ancestral File Number 8HR9-28. Parents: Hilderic.
Children were: Clodius III.
Beatrix. Parents: Raingerus IV Eleventh Count OF HAINAULT and Havide or Hedewige Princess.
Spouse: Eblo. Children were: Alice OF ROUCY.
Bertrada was born about 698 in Laon, Aisne, France. She has Ancestral File Number FHLG-TK.
Spouse: Heribert, Count of LAON. Heribert, Count of LAON and Bertrada were married in 719 in Laon, Aisne, France. Children were: Bertrada, Countess of LAON.
Beulah A.4 was born on Apr 21, 1902 in New York State, USA.5,6 She died in Jul 1979 in Clyde, Wayne County, New York, USA.5,7
Spouse: Jesse A. ROGERS. Jesse A. ROGERS and Beulah A. were married about 1920.
Beulah M. was born.
Spouse: Clarence M TIEL. Clarence M TIEL and Beulah M. were married.
Blanche. Parents: Husband and Luana Aurelia BONHAM.
Blithildis has Ancestral File Number 8HR9-XQ. Parents: Clothaire I and Ingonde.
Spouse: Ausbert. Children were: Arnoldus.
Carlton. Parents: Husband and Luana Aurelia BONHAM.
Catherine was born in 1799 in Canada.
Spouse: Anthony ROBER. Anthony ROBER and Catherine were married. Children were: Margaret ROBER, Nelson ROBER, Alexander ROBER, Matilda M. ROBER, John ROBER.
Cecilia1 was born in 1517 in Hitcham, Suffolk, England. She died on Dec 8, 1582 in Hitcham, Suffolk, England.
Spouse: Henry KIMBALL. Henry KIMBALL and Cecilia were married about 1538. Children were: Henry KIMBALL, Thomas KIMBALL, Priscilla KIMBALL.
Celine.
Spouse: John R. TIEL. John R. TIEL and Celine were married.
Childeric I2 was born in 436. He died in 481. He has Ancestral File Number 8HV7-BN. Parents: Merovee and Verica.
Children were: Clovis King.
Cicely.
Spouse: William FULLER. Children were: John FULLER.
Clodius I was born in 324. He died in 389. He has Ancestral File Number 8HR9-GB. Parents: Dagobert.
Children were: Marcomir.
Clodius III died in 298. He has Ancestral File Number 8HR9-4L. Parents: Bartherus.
Children were: Walter.
Clodmir IV has Ancestral File Number 8HR8-SW. Parents: Marcomir IV and Althildis.
Spouse: Hafilda. Children were: Farabert.
Clothaire I was born in 497. He died in 561. He has Ancestral File Number 8HRB-02. Parents: Clovis King and St. Clotilde.
Spouse: Ingonde. Children were: Sigibert, Blithildis.
Clovis King was born in 465. He died in 511. He has Ancestral File Number 8HTG-10. Clovis
(CHLODWIG, or CHLODOWECH)
Son of Childeric, King of the Salic Franks; born in the year 466; died at Paris, 27 November, 511. He succeeded his father as the King of the Franks of Tournai in 481. His kingdom was probably one of the States that sprang from the division of Clodion's monarchy like those of Cambrai, Tongres and Cologne. Although a Pagan, Childeric had kept up friendly relations with the bishops of Gaul, and when Clovis ascended the throne he received a most cordial letter of congratulation from St.Remigius, Archbishop of Reims. The young king early began his course of conquest by attacking Syagrius, son of Aegidius, the Roman Count. Having established himself at Soissons, he acquired sovereign authority over so great a part of Northern Gaul as to be known to his contemporaries as the King of Soissons. Syagrius, being defeated, fled for protection to Alaric II, King of the Visigoths, but the latter, alarmed by a summons from Clovis, delivered Syagrius to his conqueror, who had him decapitated in 486. Clovis then remained master of the dominions of Syagrius and took up his residence at Soissons. It would seem as if the episode of the celebrated vase of Soissons were an incident of the campaign against Syagrius, and it proves that, although a pagan, Clovis continued his father's policy by remaining on amicable terms with Gaulish episcopate. The vase, taken by the Frankish soldiers while plundering a church, formed part of the booty that was to be divided among the army. It was claimed by the bishop (St. Remigius?), and the king sought to have it awarded to himself in order to return it intact to the bishop, but a dissatisfied soldier split the vase with his battle-axe, saying to this king: "You will get only the share allotted you by fate".
Clovis did not openly resent the insult, but the following year, when reviewing his army he came upon this same soldier and, reproving him for the the defective condition of his arms, he split his skull with an axe, saying: "It was thus that you treated the Soissons vase." This incident has often been cited to show that although in time of war a king has unlimited authority over his army, after the war his power is restricted and that in the division of booty the rights of the soldiers must be respected.
After the defeat of Syagrius, Clovis extended his dominion as far as the Loire. It was owing to the assistance given him by the Gaulish episcopate that he gained possession of the country. The bishops, it is quite certain mapped out the regime that afterwards prevailed. Unlike that adopted in other barbarian kingdoms founded upon the ruins of the Roman Empire, this regime established absolute equality between the Gallo-Roman natives and their Germanic conquerors all sharing the same privileges. Procopius, a Byzantine writer has given us an idea of this agreement, but we know it best by its results. There was no distribution of Gaulish territory by the victors; established in the Belgian provinces, they had lands there to which they returned after each campaign. All the free men in the kingdom of Clovis, whether they were of Roman or of Germanic origin, called themselves Franks, and we must guard against the old mistake of looking upon the Franks after Clovis as no more than Germanic barbarians.
Master of half of Gaul, Clovis returned to Belgium and conquered the two Salic kingdoms of Cambrai and Tongres (?), where his cousins Ragnacaire and Chararic reigned. These events have been made known to us only through the poetic tradition of the Franks which has singularly distorted them. According to this tradition Clovis called upon Chararic to assist him its his war against Syagrius, but Chararic's attitude throughout the battle was most suspicious, as he refrained from taking sides until he saw which of the rivals was to be victorious. Clovis longed to have revenge. Through a ruse he obtained possession of Chararic and his son and threw them into prison; he then had their heads shaved, and both were ordained, the father to the priesthood and the son to the diaconate. When Chararic bemoaned and wept over this humiliation his son exclaimed: "The leaves of a green tree have been cut but they will quickly bud forth again; may he who has done this perish as quickly!" This remark was reported to Clovis, and he had both father and son beheaded.
Tradition goes on to say that Ragnacaire King of Cambrai, was a man of such loose morals he hardly respected his own kindred, and Farron, his favourite, was equally licentious. So great was the king's infatuation for this man that, if given a present, he would accept it for himself and his Farron. This filled his subjects with indignation and Clovis, to win them over to his side before taking the field, distributed among them money, bracelets, and baldries, all in gilded copper in fraudulent imitation of genuine gold. On different occasions Ragnacaire sent out spies to ascertain the strength of Clovis's army, and upon returning they said: "It is a great reinforcement for you and your Farron."
Meanwhile Clovis advanced and the battle began. Being defeated, Ragnacaire sought refuge in flight, but was overtaken; made prisoner, and brought to Clovis, his hands bound behind him. "Why", said his conqueror have you permitted our blood to be humiliated by allowing yourself to be put in chains? It were better that you should die." And, so saying, Clovis dealt him his death-blow. Then, turning to Richaire, Ragnacaire's brother, who had been taken prisoner with the king, he said: "Had you but helped your brother, they would not have bound him", and he slew Richaire also. After these deaths the traitors discovered that they had been given counterfeit gold and complained of it to Clovis, but he only laughed at them. Rignomir, one of Ragnacaire's brothers, was put to death at Le Mans by order of Clovis, who took possession of the kingdom and the treasure of his victims.
Such is the legend of Clovis; it abounds in all kinds of improbabilities, which cannot be considered as true history. The only facts that can be accepted are that Clovis made war upon Kings Ragnacaire and Chararic, put them to death and seized their territories.
In 492 or 493 Clovis, who was master of Gaul from the Loire to the frontiers of the Rhenish Kingdom of Cologne, married Clotilda, the niece of Gondebad, King of the Burgundians. The popular epic of the Franks has transformed the story of this marriage into a veritable nuptial poem the analysis of which will be found in the article on Clotilda. Clotilda, who was a Catholic, and very pious, won the consent of Clovis to the baptism of their son, and then urged that he himself embrace the Catholic Faith. He deliberated for a long time. Finally, during a battle against the Alemanni--which without apparent reason has been called the battle of Tolbiac (Zulpich)--seeing his troops on the point of yielding, he invoked the aid of Clotilda's God, promised to become a Christian if only victory should be granted him. He conquered and, true to his word was baptized at Reims by St. Remigius, bishop of that city, his sister Albofledis and three thousand of his warriors at the same time embracing Christianity. Gregory of Tours, in his ecclesiastical history of the Franks has described this event, which took place amid great pomp at Christmas, 496. "Bow thy head, O Sicambrian", said St. Remigius to the royal convert "Adore what thou hast burned and burn what thou hast adored." According to a ninth-century legend found in the life of St. Remigius, written by the celebrated Hinemar himself Archbishop of Reims, the chrism for the baptismal ceremony was missing and was brought from heaven in a vase (ampulla) borne by a dove. This is what is known as the Sainte Ampoule of Reims, preserved in the treasury of the cathedral of that city and used for the coronation of the kings of France from Philip Augustus down to Charles X.
In the year 500 Clovis was called upon to mediate in a quarrel between his wife's two uncles, Kings Gondebad of Vienne and Godegisil of Geneva. He took sides with the latter, whom he helped to defeat Gondebad at Dijon, and then, deeming it prudent to interfere no further in this fratricidal struggle, he returned home, leaving Godegisil an auxiliary corps of five thousand Franks. After Clovis's departure Gondebad reconquered Vienne, his capital in which Godegisil had established himself. This reconquest was effected by a stratagem seconded by treachery, and Godegisil himself perished on the same occasion. The popular poetry of the Franks has singularly misrepresented this intervention of Clovis, pretending that, at the instigation of his wife Clotilda, he sought to avenge her grievances against her uncle Gondebad (see CLOTILDA) and that the latter king, besieged in Avignon by Clovis, got rid of his opponent through the agency of Aredius, a faithful follower. But in these poems there are so many fictions as to render the history in them indistinguishable.
An expedition, otherwise important and profitable was undertaken by Clovis in the year 506 against Alaric II, King of the Visigoths of Aquitaine. He was awaited as their deliverer by the Catholics of that kingdom, who were being cruelly persecuted by Arian fanatics, and was encouraged in his enterprise by the Emperor Anastasius, who wished to crush this ally of Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths. Despite the diplomatic efforts made by the latter to prevent the war, Clovis crossed the Loire and proceeded to Vouille, near Poitiers, where he defeated and slew Alaric, whose demoralized troops fled in disorder. The Franks took possession of the Visigoth Kingdom as far as the Pyrenees and the Rhone, but the part situated on the left bank of this river was stoutly defended by the armies of Theodoric, and thus the Franks were prevented from seizing Arles and Provence.
Notwithstanding this last failure, Clovis, by his conquest of Aquitaine, added to the Frankish crown the fairest of its jewels. So greatly did the Emperor Anastasius rejoice over the success attained by Clovis that, to testify his satisfaction, he sent the Frankish conqueror the insignia of the consular dignity, an honour always highly appreciated by the barbarians.
The annexation of the Rhenish Kingdom of Cologne crowned the acquisition of Gaul by Clovis. But the history of this conquest, also, has been disfigured by a legend that Clovis instigated Chloderic, son of Sigebert of Cologne, to assassinate his father, then, after the perpetration of this foul deed, caused Chloderic himself to be assassinated, and finally offered himself to the Rhenish Franks as king, protesting his innocence of the crimes that had been committed. The only historical element in this old story, preserved by Gregory of Tours, is that the two kings of Cologne met with violent deaths, and that that Clovis, their relative, succeeded them partly by right of birth, partly by popular choice. The criminal means by which he is said to have reached this throne are pure creation of the barbarian imagination.
Master now of a vast kingdom, Clovis displayed the same talent in governing that he had displayed in conquering it. From Paris, which he had finally made his capital, he administered the various provinces through the agency of counts (comites) established in each city and selected by him from the aristocracy of both races, conformably to the principle of absolute equality between Romans and barbarians, a principle which dominated his entire policy. He caused the Salic Law (Lex Salica) to be reduced to written form, revised end adapted to the new social conditions under which his fellow barbaricans were subsequently to live. Acknowledging the Church as the foremost civilizing force, he protected it in every way possible, especially by providing for it the National Council of Orleans (511), at which the bishops of Gaul settled many questions pertaining to the relations between
Church and state. Hagiographic legends attribute to Clovis the founding of a great many churches and monasteries throughout France, and although the accuracy of this claim cannot be positively established, it is nevertheless certain that the influence of the council in this matter must have been considerable. However, history has preserved the memory of foundation which was undoubtedly due to Clovis: the church of the Apostles, later of Sainte-Geneviève, on what was then Mons Lucotetius, to the south of Paris. The king destined it as a mausoleum for himself and his queen Clotilda, and before it was completed his mortal remains were there interred. Clovis died at the age of forty-five. His sarcophagus remained in the crypt of Sainte-Geneviève until the time of the French Revolution, when it was broken open by the revolutionists, and his ashes scattered to the winds, the sanctuary of the beautiful church being destroyed.
The history of this monarch has been so hopelessly distorted by popular poetry and so grossly disfigured by the vagaries of the barbarian imagination as make the portrayal of his character wellneigh impossible. However, from authentic accounts of him it may be concluded that his private life was not without virtues. As a statesman he succeeded in accomplishing what neither the genius of Theodoric the Great nor that of any contemporary barbarian king could achieve: upon the ruins of the Roman Empire he built up a powerful system, the influence of which dominated European civilization during many centuries, and from which sprang France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland, without taking into account that northern Spain and northern Italy were also, for a time, under the civilizing regime of the Frankish Empire.
Clovis left four sons. Theodoric, the eldest, was the issue of union prior to that contracted with Clotilda, who was, however, the mother of the three others, Clodomir, Childebert, and Clotaire. They divided their father's kingdom among themselves, following the barbarian principle that sought promotion of personal rather than national interests, and looked upon royalty as the personal prerogative of the sons of kings. After the death of Clovis his daughter Clotilda, named after her mother, married Amalric, king of the Visigoths. She died young, being cruelly abused by this Arian prince, who seemed eager to wreak vengeance on the daughter of Clovis for the tragic death of Alaric II.
ARNDT (ed.), GREGORY OF TOURS, Historia ecclesiastica Francorum in Mon. Germ. Hist:. Script. RR.
Merovingicarum; JUNGHANS, Die Gesdichte der frankischen Konige Childerich und Chlodovich (Gottingen,
1857), tr. by MONOD as Histore critique de rois Childeric et Clovis (Paris, 1879); RAJNA, Le origini dell' epopea
francese (Florence, 1884); KURTH, Histoire poetique des Merovingiens (Paris 1893): IDEM, Clovis (Tours, 1896,
and Paris, 1901).
GODEFROID KURTH
Transcribed by Joseph P. Thomas
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IV
Copyright © 1908 by Robert Appleton Company Parents: Childeric I.
Spouse: St. Clotilde. Children were: Clothaire I.
Coel or Coilus was born in 125. He died in 170. He has Ancestral File Number 8HR8-M2. Parents: Cyllin.
Children were: Althildis.
Cyllin has Ancestral File Number 8HR8-KP.
Children were: Coel or Coilus.
Dagobert died in 317. He has Ancestral File Number 8HR9-89. Parents: Walter.
Children were: Genebald.
