The tomb of Clovis I, 13th C. CE

June 28, 2020

The tomb of Clovis I, 13th C. CE

"Clovis's wife Clotilde, a Burgundian princess, was a Catholic despite the Arianism that surrounded her at court. Her persistence eventually persuaded Clovis to convert to Catholicism, which he initially resisted. Clotilde had wanted her son to be baptized, but Clovis refused, so she had the child baptized without Clovis's knowledge. Shortly after his baptism, their son died, which further strengthened Clovis's resistance to conversion. Clotilde also had their second son baptized without her husband's permission, and this son became ill and nearly died after his baptism. Clovis eventually converted to Catholicism following the Battle of Tolbiac on Christmas Day 508. Clovis I is traditionally said to have died on 27 November 511.

In the Interpretatio Romana, Saint Gregory of Tours gave the Germanic Gods that Clovis abandoned the names of roughly equivalent Roman Gods, such as Jupiter and Mercury. William Daly, more directly assessing Clovis's allegedly barbaric and Pagan origins, ignored the Gregory of Tours version and based his account on the scant earlier sources, a sixth-century "vita" of Saint Genevieve and letters to or concerning Clovis from bishops and Theodoric."

-taken from Wikipedia