man Childeric of Franks, King of Franks‏‎, son of Merovech of the Franks, King of the Franks and Verica of Westphalia‏. Adoption parents: Merovech of the Franks, King of the Franks and Chlodeswinthe of the Salic Franks
Born ‎ 436 at Westphalia, Prussia, died ‎ Nov 26, 481 at Tournai, France‎, 44 or 45 years
ID: I39743
Name: Childeric I King of Franks 1
Sex: M
Name: I Chideric , of the Franks 2 3 1
Birth: 436 in Westphalia, Germany 4 5 6
Death: ABT 26 NOV 481 in Tournai, France 7
Death: 26 NOV 481 5 8
Death: 482 2
Event: Ruled 458-481
Event: Ruled BET 458 AND 481
Event: Acceded 460 2 9
Note:
SOURCES:
Page 212 in Dawn of European civilization has Merovingian chart. It
differs a little from some others.

Cloderic is same as Childeric

"Rulers of the World" by R.F.Tapsell
Between 458 and 480: Childeric I became the third King of the Franks in 458. He fought with the Roman Aegidius against the Wisigoths. When Agidius died in 464, he was succeeded by Count Paul. Childeric I's army helped Count Paul push back a Saxon advance from Angers around 466. Count Paul would die in 470. They had to repeat this feat around 475, after Count Paul had died and the Saxons once again had attempted to expand into Angers.

1 Childeric I, King des Francs (Paul, Nouveau Larousse Universel.) (Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, Page 216, Line 303-52.)

(Andre Castelot, Histoire de La France, Pages, 176, 200). Born: before 433, son of Merovee=Merovech, Prince des Francs and N?, Childeric I is presumed to have been at least 15 years of age by the time he succeeded his father in 448.

Between 480 and 481 Childeric I's tomb in Tournai was discovered in 1653 and contained magnificent weapons. Buried: circa 481 in Tournai, Bigorre, France.


Father: Merovech King of the Franks b: ABT 415 in France
Mother: Chlodeswinthe of The Salic Franks b: ABT 418 in Westphalia, Germany

Marriage 1 Basina of Thuringia b: ABT 436 in of Thuringia
Married: ABT 450 in Germany
Married: BET 463 AND 465 in Germany 4
Married: 465 in Germany 5
Children
Andelfieda of Merovinga Franks b: ABT 452 in Westphalia, Germany
Clovis I "The Great" King of Franks b: ABT 466 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France
Alboflede
Lantechilde

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Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on
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Title: Directory of Royal Genealogical Data
Author: Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science
Publication: Department of Computer Science, Hull University
Note: usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc
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Note: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/public/genealogy/royal/catalog.html
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Title: The Family Trees of the Kings of France
Author: Jean-Charles Volkman
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Title: World Family Tree Vol. 22, Ed. 1
Author: Brøderbund Software, Inc.
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Note: Customer pedigree.
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Page: 4
Text: b. c. 436
Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on
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Text: 481/482 year only
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Text: d. c. 481
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Text: King of Salian Franks (c. 458 - c. 481)
From 'Maloney, Hendrick & Many Others' at Rootsweb.com.
Contact James H. Maloney; ancestors@maloneylaw.com.

Married ‎± ABT. 450 at Prussia (approximately 30 years married) to:

woman Basina Andovera of Thuringia‏‎, daughter of Chlodwig of Koeln, King of Koeln and Basina of Saxony‏.
Born ‎± ABT. 436 at Thuringia, died ‎± ABT. 480‎, approximately 44 years
ID: I39744
Name: Basina of Thuringia 1
Sex: F
Birth: ABT 436 in of Thuringia 1
Death: AFT 470 1
Note: "The Family Trees of the Kings of France", p. 4. describes her as "Basina, wife of the King of the Thuringian Franks"

Father: Chlodwig King of Koeln b: ABT 410 in Cologne, Germany
Mother: Basina of The Saxe b: ABT 415 in Saxony, Germany

Marriage 1 Childeric I King of Franks b: 436 in Westphalia, Germany
Married: ABT 450 in Germany
Married: BET 463 AND 465 in Germany 2
Married: 465 in Germany 3
Children
Andelfieda of Merovinga Franks b: ABT 452 in Westphalia, Germany
Clovis I "The Great" King of Franks b: ABT 466 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France
Alboflede
Lantechilde

Sources:
Title: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Jim Weber
Publication: ancestry.com
Note: downloaded periodically 2001-2004. Updated frequently, with many sources.
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From 'Maloney, Hendrick & Many Others' at Rootsweb.com.
Contact James H. Maloney; ancestors@maloneylaw.com.

Children:

1.
man Clovis of "'The Great'" Franks, King of Franks‏
Born ‎ 465 at , died ‎ Nov 27, 511 at Church of St. Pierre, Paris, France‎, 45 or 46 years
ID: I39740
Name: Clovis I "The Great" King of Franks 1
Sex: M
Name: Chlodovech (Clovis) I, of the Franks 2
Name: Clovis I "the Great" of the Franks 3 4
Birth: ABT 466 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France 1
Birth: 463 in prob. Marne, France 2
Birth: ABT 476 in Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, France 4
Birth: ABT 486 in Rheims, Marne, France 3
Death: 27 NOV 511 in Church of St Pierre, Paris, France 1
Death: 27 NOV 511 in Church of Saint Pierre, France 4
Event: Ruled 481-511
Event: Acceded 482 2 5
Baptism: 22 SEP 496 2
Note:
King of the Salic Franks (481-511), King of France. (Came to throne at about age 15.

SOURCES:
Founder of the Empire of the Franks
"Rulers of the World" by R.F.Tapsell

Born: circa 466, son of Childeric I, King des Francs and Basine Andovera de Turinge , Clovis I became King between the Summer of 481 and Autumn of 482. According to Gregoire de Tours, he was only about 15 years of age at the time. In any case he was quite young as he was called "juvenis". Timelines here are bound to be fraught with error since the custom of counting years from the time of Jesus Christ was not established until the 8th Century. Thus, both the Larousse and the History of France assert a birth date circa 466 whereas Stuart's "Royalty for Commoners" claims Clovis I was alive in the year 420! That date is necessary to claim that Sigebert I is the son of Childebert, son of Clovis, since Stuart claims Sigebert I was King of the Salic Francs from 481 to 511.

Significant-Other: Evochilde before 486 - Evochilde was a concubine. Note - between 486 and 507: King of the Franks, Clovis I vanquished the Romans at Soissons in 486. Syagrius, the "Roman King" takes refuge in Toulouse under the protection of the King of the Wisigoths, Alaric [who had just become King in 484]. By the end of the year, Clovis I forced Alaric to give up Syagrius, and Clovis I secretly has Syagrius put to death. From 487 to 490, Clovis I extended his kingdom all the way to the Loire River, however, he respects the border of the Wisigoths to the South and of the Burgundians to the South-West, as well as that of the riparian Francs to the East. From 490 to 495, Clovis is occupied with the liquidation of the Salic Franc dynasty North of Gaule. King Chararic of Tongres is decapitated, and King Ragnacaire of Cambrai is executed. Upon the request for aid from the Riparian Francs, Clovis I defeats the Alamans (Germans) at the Battle of Tolbiac in 496 thus bringing Champagne under his jurisdiction. In 500, he wages war against Gondebaud, King of Burgundy defeating him near Dijon. Gondebaud retreats to Avignon. In 502, on the Cure and the Cousin, Clovis I and Gondebaud seal an alliance. From April to June 507, the French Army attack the Wisigoths, whose Kingdom extends from the Mediterranean to the ocean, and cross the Loire, going up the Valley of Calin toward Poitiers and encounter the Visigoth Army in the plain of Vouille, 15 km West of Clain. Alaric II, King of the Visigoths is killed and the Wisigoths thus are defeated. By 507, thanks to the efforts of his son, Thierry, the entire Meridional Gaule falls into Clovis I's control. In 508, the Franc Army lays siege on Arles in order to secure Provence. Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths, occupies Provence, and his general, Ibbas, crosses the Alps to deliver Arles from Clovis I's clutch. Theodoric conquers the Burgundians at Avignon and Orange and makes Amalaric, his grandson and son of Alaric II, King of the Wisigoths. Clovis I loses the Bas-Languedoc, then called Septimania.

Around 510, Clovis has Cloderic, King of the Riparian tribes who had fought in his support at Vouille, assassinated, and proclaims himself King of the Riparians. Thus, the Kingdom extends from the Pyrenees, to the ocean to beyond the Rhine. Upon his death, according to Frankish custom, his kingdom was divided among his four sons: Thierry, Clodomir, Childebert and Clotaire. Married circa 493: Sainte Clotilde de Bourgogne , daughter of Chilperic, King de Bourgogne and N?; Clotilde was a Merovingien. By the time Clovis I married her, he already had a son through his concubine. Clotilde contributed to the conversion of Clovis to Christianity. After his death, she retired to the monastery of Saint-Martin in Tours (France). Her Feast Day is 3 June. Baptized: on 25 December 496; When the Queen, Clotilde, convinced Clovis I to have their son Ingomer baptized, he relented. Shortly afterwards, the son died."The Family Trees of the Kings of France"

CLOVIS I, King of the Franks (c. 481-511). Much of his reign was spent fighting in an efort to extend his kingdom. In 486, he defeated Syagrius, the last representative of Rome, near Soissons. He defeated the Alemanni in Tolbiac in 496, vanquisted King Gondebaud of Burgundy near Dijon c. 500, and defeated and killed Alaric II, King of the Visigorhts, in Couille in 507. He gradually unified the kingdom of the Franks until it covered nearly all of Gaul. Clovis married a Roman Catholic Burgundian princess, Clotilda, in 149, and this brought him support of the bishops....Under his wife's influence, Clovis had himself baptised with several thousand of his soldiers (c. 498). On his death, in accordance with Germanic tradition, his kingdom was divided between his four sons...

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Text: King of the Franks, (c. 481 - 511)
Title: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest
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From 'Maloney, Hendrick & Many Others' at Rootsweb.com. Contact James H. Maloney; ancestors@maloneylaw.com.
2.
woman Andelfieda of Merovingian "Andelfieda of the Merovingian Franks" Franks‏
Born ‎± ABT. 452 at Reims, Neustria, died ‎ Dec 25, 496 at Ravenna, Italy‎, approximately 44 years
Name: Andelfieda of the MEROVING FRANKS
Surname: Meroving Franks
Given Name: Andelfieda of the
Sex: F
Birth: ABT 0465 in Austrasia
Death: 25 Dec 0496 in Reims, Neustria
Reference Number: Foster,Bur
_UID: BEC5265CDE9C7A449C355046812CBCDDEADD
Note:
!Daughter of Clovis who married Theodoric. [Leaders & Landmarks in European History, Vol. 1, p. 153-6]

!Sister of Clovis married Theodoric. [Nations of the World - France, Vol. 1, p. 118]

Dau of Childeric I Franks and Basina Thuringia; m. Theodoric Ostrogoths; mother of Crotechilde who m. Brunulphe Earlin. [Holly Forrest Tamer
FOSTER, BURR, WAITE, NEWLIN, MINOR LINES
1 2
Change Date: 5 Apr 2003 at 13:52:08

Father: Childeric I of SALIAN FRANKS King of Franks b: 0436 in France
Mother: Basina VON THURINGEN b: ABT 0450

Marriage 1 Theodoric the Great of Ostrogoths AMAL DYNASTY King b: ABT 0454 in Pannonia,Austria/Hungary/,Yugoslavia,Ostrogoth Empire
Children
Amalasunta of the OSTROGOTHS b: ABT 0480 in Ravenna, Italy
Daughter of Theodoric of the OSTROGOTHS b: ABT 0485 in Ostrogoth Empire
Ostrogotha of the OSTROGOTHS b: ABT 0490 in Ravenna, Italy
Crotechilde de OSTROGOTHS b: ABT 0496 in Rheims, Marne, Loire-Alantique, France

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Title: Leaders & Landmarks in European History, Volume I: From Early Times to the rise of Mohammedanism
Author: Moncrieff, A.R. HOpe; Chaytor, The Rev. H.J., M.A..
Publication: The Gresham Publishing Company, London, 1913
Page: pp. 153-6
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Name: Cheryl Varner Library

Title: The Nations of the World Series: France
Author: Guizot, M. and Madame Guizot de Witt; translated by Robert Black; supplement by Mayo W. Hazeltine
Publication: Peter Fenelon Collier, New York, 1898
Page: Vol. 1, p. 118
From 'Glick/Foster Ancestry' at Rootsweb.com