Thirty-Ninth Generation
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Cadwallon
"Lawhir" "Long Hand" ap EINION, son of Einion ap Cunedda and Prawst
verch Tidlet, was born about 442 in Wales. He married Meddyf verch
MAELDAF.
"King of Gwynedd; Catuvellaunus; in legend, the `King Cradelmant of Nortgalis'
who rebelled against High-King Arthur"
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Meddyf
Verch MAELDAF was born about 446 in Nanconwy, Arllechwedd, Caernarvonshire,
Wales.
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Fornjotur,
King in KVENLAND was born about 160 in Finland.
"THERE was a king named Fornjot, he ruled over those lands which are called
Finland and Kvenland; that is to the east of that bight of the sea which
goes north- ward to meet Gandvik; that we call the Helsingbight. Fornjot
had three sons; one was named Hler, whom we call Aegir, the second Logi,
the third Kari; he was the father of Frost, the father of Snow the old,
his son's name was Thorri; he (Thorri) had two sons, one was named Norr
and the other Gorr; his daughter's name was Goi." Orkneyingers'
Saga, http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Eamcolan/Dutton/Orkneyingers.html
"These latter 3 generations are the Kings Fornjot, Kari, and Frosti from Orkneyingers' Saga. The other branch will get Mythological, but note afterward that this one does as well - Fornjot's sons were all primal elements, Kari being the Wind. Frosti is Frost, Jokull an Icecap/Glacier, and Snaer, Snow. What's being dealt with here are kings being ascribed Godly powers long after their existence, part of the exaggeration that occurs by passing things on orally."
http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~andersj/sagas.html
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Adils
"Athils" OTTARSSON, KING IN UPPSALA, son of Ottar Egilsson, King in
Sweden, was born about 572 in Sweden. He married Yrsa HELGASDATTER
about 593 in Sweden.
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Yrsa
HELGASDATTER, daughter of Helgi Halfdansson, was born about
565 in Denmark.
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Donart,
King of Scots, son of Donart, was born about 415. He died in
505. He married Fedelmia.
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Fedelmia,
Princess of Ireland, was born about 331.
39-9 Clodion "Le Chevelu", King of FRANCE, son of Pharamond, King of France, and Argotta, was born about 395 in Westphalia, Germany. He died in 447/449. He was buried in Cambray, Nord, France. He married Basina Princess of the THURINGIANS in France.
"Clodion is considered by some authors the son and heir of Pharamond. According
to Gregory of Tours, he lived in the castle of Dispargum, Thuringia. Chlodio's
tribe renounced the suzerainty of Rome after 428 and broke across the Scheldt
River, spreading southward into Gaul and occupying the region as far as
the Somme. The Franks seized Tournai and Cambrai, but their defeat (c.
431) by the Roman military commander, magister utriusque militiae Flavius
Ætius, at Helena (Hélesme), prevented further expansion. He
made peace with Ætius and died c. 447/448."
http://lego70.tripod.com/frank/clodion.htm
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Basina,
Princess of the THURINGIANS was born in 398 in Thuringia, Germany.
"The third major group in Germany were the Thuringians. Unlike either the
Alemans or Bavarians, the Thuringians never settled in regions that had
been Roman. They emerged in the lands along the upper Elbe and Saale rivers
in the third century. There appear to have been some marriage ties between
the Thuringian nobility and the Frankish kings. Clovis' mother, Basina,
was a Thuringian princess. Thereafter, some of the earliest Frankish campaigns
were directed against the Thuringians. Clovis attacked them in 491, and
after 530, a Frankish protectorate, similar to that imposed on the Alemans
and Bavarians, was established over Thuringia. They remained pagan, however,
and after 555 a revolt restored autonomy to the region."
http://www.facstaff.oglethorpe.edu/BSmith/ou/bs_foundations_chapter4.htm
39-11
Ferreolus
TONTANTIUS
"Tonantius
Ferreolus said to be a grandson of the Roman general Syagrius who was kicked
out of Gaul by King Clovis I of the Salian Franks."
http://showcase.netins.net/web/washburn/html/genealogy/goods/jwwfullped04.shtml#Note_14
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Miss
AVITUS was born in 405 in Rome, Italy.
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Clovis
I "The Great", King of FRANCE, son of Childeric, King of France, and
Basina, Princess of Thuringia, was born about 467. He was christened
on 25 Dec 496 in Reims, Neustria. He died on 27 Nov 511. He was buried
in Eglise de Saint Pierre, France. He married Clotilde about 492/493 in
France.
"Clovis I king of the Franks, became the first powerful ruler of the Merovingian
dynasty, the founders of the French state. In 481, when Clovis inherited
the royal title, he was only one of several Frankish kings. Then, in 486,
he defeated the last great Roman army in Gaul. In one campaign after another,
he defeated the Alamanni, the Visigoths, and the Burgundians. By 507 he
ruled over most of Gaul, western Germany, and the Low Countries of northwestern
Europe. Clovis was the first Germanic king to become an orthodox Christian.
Most Germanic rulers either became Arian heretics or remained pagans. By
his conversion to Christianity, Clovis won the support of his Catholic
subjects, including the clergy."
http://www.smokykin.com/ged/f002/f05/a0020562.htm
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Clotilde,
daughter
of Chilperic, King of Burgundy, was born about 475 in Bourgogne,
France. She died on 3 Jun 548 in Tours, France.
"In 493 Clovis married Clothilde (Clotilda) of Burgundy (afterwards St. Clothilde), born 475, died at Tours in 545, "the girl of the French Vineyards". She was the daughter of Gondebaud (Chilperic II), King of Burgundy. She was Arian by religion, but with strong Roman Catholic tendencies. This marriage was of primary importance, as the real shape of France dated from it. It was she who led her husband to abandon his old beliefs and embrace Christianity. He was baptized in the 15th year of his reign at Rheims on Christmas Day in 496, with 3,000 of his followers. When Clovis first heard the story of Christ's crucifixion, he was so moved that he cried, "If I had been there with my valiant Franks, I would have avenged Him."
http://www.mathematical.com/clovis1meroving.html
"Clotilda was the wife of Clovis I, and the daughter of Chilperic, King of Burgundians of Lyons, and Caretena. After the death of King Gundovic (Gundioch), the Kingdom of Burgundy had been divided among his four sons, Chilperic reigning at Lyons, Gondebad at Vienne, and Godegisil at Geneva; Gondemar's capital is not mentioned. Chilperic and probably Godegisil were Catholics, while Gondebad professed Arianism. Clotilda was given a religious training by her mother Caretena, who, according to Sidonius Apollinaris and Fortunatus of Poitiers, was a remarkable woman. After the death of Chilperic, Caretena seems to have made her home with Godegisil at Geneva, where her other daughter, Sedeleuba, or Chrona, founded the church of Saint-Victor, and took the religious habit. It was soon after the death of Chilperic that Clovis asked and obtained the hand of Clotilda.
From the sixth century on, the marriage of Clovic and Clotilda was made the theme of epic narratives, in which the original facts vere materially altered and the various versions found their way into the works of different Frankish chroniclers, e. g. Gregory of Tours, Fredegarius, and the "Liber Historiae". These narratives have the character common to all nuptial poems of the rude epic poetry found among many of the Germanic peoples. Here it will suffice to summarize the legends and add a brief statement of the historical facts. Further information will be found in special works on the subject. The popular poems substituted for King Godegisil, uncle and protector of Clotilda, his brother Gondebad, who was represented as the persecutor of the young princess. Gondebad is supposed to have slain Chilperic, thrown his wife into a well, with a stone tied around her neck, and exiled her two daughters. Clovis, on hearing of the beauty of Clotilda, sent his friend Aurelian, disguised as a beggar, to visit her secretly, and give her a gold ring from his master; he then asked Gondebad for the hand of the young princess. Gondebad, fearing the powerful King of the Franks, dared not refuse, and Clotilda accompanied Aurelian and his escort on their return journey. They hastened to reach Frankish territory, as Clotilda feared that Aredius, the faithful counsellor of Gondebad, on his return from Constantinople whither he had been sent on a mission, would influence his master to retract his promise. Her fears were justified. Shortly after the departure of the princess, Aredius returned and caused Gondebad to repent to the marriage. Troops were despatched to bring Clotilda back, but it was too late, as she was safe on Frankish soil. The details of this recital are purely legendary. It is historically established that Chilperic's death was lamented by Gondebad, and that Cartena lived until 506: she died "full of days", says her epitaph, having had the joy of seeing her children brought up in catholic religion. Aurelian and Aredius are historical personages, though little is known of them in the legend is highly improbable.
Clotilda, as wife of Clovis, soon acquired a great ascendancy over him, of which she availed herself to exhort him to embrace the Catholic Faith. For a long time her efforts were fruitless, though the king permitted the baptism of Ingomir, their first son. The child died in his infancy which seemed to give Clovis an argument against the God of Clotilda, but notwithstanding this, the young queen again obtained the consent of her husband to the baptism of their second son, Clodomir. Thus the future of Catholicism was already assured in the Frankish Kingdom. Clovis himself was soon afterwards converted under highly dramatic circumstances, and was baptized at Reims by St. Remigius, in 496. Clotilda bore Clovis five children: four sons, Ingomir, who died in infancy, and Kings Clodomir, Childebert, and Clotaire, and one daughter, named Clotilda after her mother.
Clovis died at Paris in 511, and Clotilda had him interred on what was then Mons Lucotetius, in the church of the Apostles (later Sainte-Geneviève), which they had built together to serve as a mausoleum, and which Clotilda was left to complete. The widowhood of this noble woman was saddened by cruel trials. Her son Clodomir, son-in-law of Gondebad, made war against his cousin Sigismund, who had succeeded Gondebad on the throne of Burgundy, captured him, and put him to death with his wife and children at Coulmiers, near Orléans. According to the popular epic of the Franks, he was incited to this war by Clotilda, who thought to avenge upon Sigismund the murder of her parents; but, as has already been seen Clotilda had nothing to avenge, and, on the contrary, it was probably she who arranged the alliance between Clovis and Gondebad. Here the legend is at variance with the truth, cruelly defaming the memory of Clotilda, who had the sorrow of seeing Clodomir perish in his unholy war on the Burgundians; he was vanquished and slain in the battle of Veseruntia (Vezeronce), in 524, by Godomar, brother of Sigismund. Clotilda took under her care his three sons of tender age, Theodoald, Gunther, and Clodoald. Childebert and Clotaire, however, who had divided between them the inheritance of their elder brother, did not wish the children to live, to whom later on they would have to render an account. By means of a ruse they withdrew the children from the watchful care of their mother and slew the two eldest, the third escaped and entered a cloister, to which he gave his name (Saint-Cloud, near Paris).
The grief of Clotilda was so great that Paris became insupportable to her,
and she withdrew to Tours where close to the tomb of St. Martin, to whom
she had great devotion, she spent the remainder of her life in prayer and
good works. But there were trials still in store for her. Her daughter
Clotilda, wife of Amalaric, the Visigothic king, being cruelly maltreated
by her husband, appealed for help to her brother Childebert. He went to
her rescue and defeated Amalaric in a battle, in which the latter was killed,
Clotilda, however, died on the journey home, exhausted by the hardships
she had endured. Finally, as though to crown the long martyrdom of Clotilda,
her two sole surviving sons, Childebert and Clotaire, began to quarrel,
and engaged in serious warfare. Clotaire, closely pursued by Childebert,
who had been joined by Theodebert, son of Thierry I, took refuge in the
forest of Brotonne, in Normandy, where he feared that he and his army would
be exterminated by the superior forces of his adversaries. Then, says Gregory
of Tours, Clotilda threw herself on her knees before the tomb of St. Martin,
and besought him with tears during the whole night not to permit another
fratricide to afflict the family of Clovis. Suddenly a frightful tempest
arose and dispersed the two armies which were about to engage in a hand-to-hand
struggle; thus, says the chronicler, did the saint answer the prayers of
the afflicted mother. This was the last of Clotilda's trials. Rich in virtues
and good works, after a widowhood of thirty-four years, during which she
lived more as a religious than as a queen, she died and was buried in Paris,
in the church of the Apostles, beside her husband and children.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04066a.htm
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Cormac,
King of LEINSTER, son of Lillial, King of Leinster,was born about 460
in Ireland. He died in 546.
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