Chlodowech

Chlodowech spent the winter in Bourdeaux, and carried away the entire treasure of Alarich from Toulouse, and he went to Angoulême.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

Chlodowech was not opposed to this and came to him.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

The two armies met and there was a fearful slaughter, and the army of Chlodowech was on the point of being annihilated.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

Nicetus of Trier (_ob. circa_ 566), _Epistula ad Chlodosvindam reginam Longobardorum_ (MSL, 5: 375); and Avitus, _Epistula_ 41, addressed to Chlodowech himself.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

The baptism of Chlodowech was probably the result of a long process of deliberation, beginning probably before his marriage with Chrotechildis, a Burgundian princess, who was a Catholic.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

When the clergy of Tours heard that King Chlothar [511-561; 558-561, as surviving son of Chlodowech, sole ruler of the Franks] had returned from the slaughter of the Saxons, they prepared the consensus (226) that they had chosen the priest Eufronius bishop and went to the king.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

But when they saw that their king was dead, they submitted to Chlodowech and said: “Let not, we pray thee, a nation perish; now we are thine.”

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

The queen (Chrotechildis) ceased not to warn Chlodowech that he should acknowledge the true God and forsake idols.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

Chlodowech, however, sent his son Theuderic to Albi, Rhodez, and Arverne, and departing he subjugated those cities, from the borders of the Goths to the borders of the Burgundians, to the rule of his father.

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905

The kingdom, which had been divided on the death of Chlodowech, was united under the youngest son, Chlotar I (sole ruler 558-561), again divided on his death, to be united under Chlotar II (sole ruler 613-628).

A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905