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Chrodechilde von Burgund

Chrodechilde von Burgund[1, 2, 3]

Female Abt 475 - 544  (69 years)    Has 34 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Chrodechilde von Burgund 
    Birth Abt 475  Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 3 Jun 544  Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
    Person ID I15861  Geneagraphie | Voorouders HW, Ahnen BvS
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Father König Chilperich II. der Burgunder,   b. Bef 455   d. 493 (Age 38 years) 
    Mother Caratene,   b. Bef 455   d. 16 Sep 506 (Age 51 years) 
    Family ID F223408  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family König Chlodwig I. der Franken,   b. 465   d. 27 Nov 514, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years) 
    Marriage 493 
    Children 
     1. Ingomer der Franken   d. Abt 494
    +2. King Chlodomir der Franken,   b. Abt 495   d. 524 (Age 29 years)
    +3. King Childebert der Franken, I,   b. Abt 495   d. 558 (Age 63 years)
    +4. King Clotaire der Franken, I, "the Old",   b. 500, Rheims Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Nov 561, St. Medard Abbey, Sois Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    +5. Chrodechilde,   b. 502-505   d. 531 (Age 26 years)
    Family ID F5500  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

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  • Notes 
    • besitzt stärksten Einfluß auf ihren Mann

      as a Saint by Roman Catholics , she was instrumental to her husband's famous conversion to Christianity and, in her later years, was known for her almsgiving and penitential works of mercy.
      On the death of Gundioc , king of the Burgundians, in 473, his sons Gundobad , Godegisel and Chilperic divided his heritage between them; Chilperic apparently reigning at Lyon, Gundobald at Vienne and Godegesil at Geneva.
      According to Gregory of Tours , Chilperic was slain by Gundobad, his wife drowned, and of his two daughters, Chrona took the veil and Clotilde was exiled. This account, however, seems to have been a later invention, since an epitaph discovered at Lyons speaks of a Burgundian queen who died in 506. This was most probably the mother of Clotilde.
      In 493 Clotilde married Clovis, King of the Franks , who had just conquered northern Gaul. She was brought up in the Catholic faith and did not rest until her husband had abjured paganism and embraced the Catholic faith (according to Gregory of Tours ' Historia Francorum [History of the Franks]) in the middle of battle with the Alemanni in 496. He officially converted the same year. With him she built at Paris the Church of the Holy Apostles, afterwards known as Sainte Geneviève. After the death of Clovis I , in 511, she retired to the abbey of St Martin at Tours.
      In 523 she incited her sons against her cousin Sigismund , the son of Gundobad and provoked the Burgundian war. In the following year she tried in vain to protect the rights of her grandsons, the children of Clodomer , against the claims of her sons Childebert I and Clotaire I , and was equally unsuccessful in her efforts to prevent the civil discords between her children. She died in 544 or 545, and was buried at her husband's side in the church of the Holy Apostles

  • Sources 
    1. [S1210] Andreas Thiele, Erzählende genealogische Stammtafeln zur europäischen Geschichte I/1, Bd. 1. Deutsche Fürstenhäuser Teilbd. 1 - 1991, (R. G. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1991, ISBN 3-89406-460-9), 1 B 34 716 1,1.

    2. [S1632] Vorfahren des Tile von Damm, Genealogie um die Familie von Damm in Braunschweig, Band 7 - Die Masse der Dynasten, 142 (Reliability: 3).

    3. [S1663] Settipani, Christian; Kerrebrouck, Patrick Van, La Préhistoire des Capétiens Teil 1, (Nouvelle Histoire Génélogique de l'Auguste Maison de France 1993 ISBN 2-9501509-3-4), Tabelle 1 (Reliability: 3).



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