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Birth:          ABT  436 
Death:          ABT  481 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childeric_I
Childeric I (French: Childéric, Latin: Childericus, reconstructed Frankish: *Hildirik;[2] c. 
440 – 481/482) was a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks and the father of Clovis I, 
who would unite the Franks and found the Merovingian dynasty.
Career[edit]

Childeric succeeded his father Merovech as king of the Salian Franks, traditionally in 
457 or 458, aged just 18.[citation needed] By 457 at the latest he was the ruler of the 
Franks in the territory covering Tournai and the Lys valley. He may have had power 
over further territories to the south, but the sources are unclear on this. According to 
Gregory of Tours, Childeric was exiled at some point, the reason being traditionally 
given as Frankish unhappiness with Childeric's private life. Gregory further records 
that the Franks recalled Childeric after 8 years of exile.[3]

In 463 Childeric fought in conjunction with the Roman General Aegidius, the magister 
militum of northern Gaul based in Soissons, to defeat the Visigoths, who had hoped to 
extend their dominion along the banks of the Loire River.[citation needed] After the 
death of Aegidius, Childeric assisted Comes ("count") Paul of Angers, together with a 
mixed band of Gallo-Romans and Franks, in defeating the Goths and taking booty.[4] 
Saxon raiders under the command of Eadwacer reached Angers and captured it, but 
Childeric and Count Paul retook the city in 469.[5] Childeric, having delivered Angers, 
followed a Saxon warband to the islands on the Atlantic mouth of the Loire, and 
massacred them there.[citation needed] In the period around 476 to 481, he and 
Odoacer were discussing the possibility of an alliance against the Alamanni who 
wished to invade Italy.[6]

Marriage, children, and death[edit]

Gregory of Tours, in Libri Historiarum (Book ii.12), records the story of the expulsion of 
Childeric by the Salian Franks for seducing their wives. He was exiled for eight years 
in Thuringia with King Basin and his wife, Queen Basina. He returned only when a 
faithful servant advised him that he could safely do so by sending him half of a gold 
piece that Childeric had split with him before his exile. The book also describes his 
arrival in Tournai with Basina, who had left her husband to be with him.

Childeric married Basina of Thuringia, daughter of Basin, and they had the following 
children:
1.Clovis I (466 – 511).
2.Audofleda, Queen of the Ostrogoths, wife of Theodoric the Great.
3.Lanthilde (468 – ¿¿??).
4.Aboflede (470 – c. 500).

Childeric died in 481[6] or 482 and was buried in Tournai.[7] His son Clovis succeeded 
him as king of the Salian Franks.[8]

Tomb[edit]
 
Childeric's tomb was discovered in 1653[9] not far from the 12th-century church of 
Saint-Brice in Tournai, now in Belgium.[10] Numerous precious objects were found, 
including jewels of gold and garnet cloisonné, gold coins, a gold bull's head, and a 
ring with the king's name inscribed. Some 300 golden winged insects (usually viewed 
as bees or cicadas) were also found which had been placed on the king's cloak.[9] 
Archduke Leopold William, governor of the Southern Netherlands (today's Belgium), 
had the find published in Latin. The treasure went first to the Habsburgs in Vienna, 
then as a gift to Louis XIV, who was not impressed with the treasure and stored it in 
the royal library, which became the Bibliothèque Nationale de France during the 
Revolution. Napoleon was more impressed with Childeric's bees and when he was 
looking for a heraldic symbol to trump the Bourbon fleur-de-lys, he settled on 
Childeric's bees as symbols of the French Empire.

On the night of November 5–6, 1831, the treasure of Childeric was among 80 kilos of 
treasure stolen from the Library and melted down for the gold. A few pieces were 
retrieved from where they had been hidden in the Seine, including two of the bees. 
The record of the treasure, however, now exists only in the fine engravings made at 
the time of its discovery and in some reproductions made for the Habsburgs.

Parents
____ Merovech (ABT  415 - ABT  458)
----- ----- ()

Siblings
____ Childeric I (ABT  436 - ABT  481)

Marriage To OF THURINGIA Basina ()
    m.  

Notes

Parents
OF THURINGIA Basin ()
____ Basina ()

Children by OF THURINGIA Basina 
____ Clovis I "the Great" (ABT  466 - 27 Nov  511)

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