Other Events and Attributes:

• House: gens Cocceia
• FSID: GH3W-PZ8
• Life Event: 12 Aug 145; Governor of Roman Arabia
• Life Event: 147; Elected Suffect Consul

Notes:

Sextus Cocceius Severianus was a Roman senator who flourished during the reign of Antoninus Pius. An unpublished military diploma attests that he was governor of Roman Arabia on 12 August 145;[1] Severianus was promoted to suffect consul in 147, with first Tiberius Licinius Cassius Cassianus then Gaius Popilius Carus Pedo as his colleague.[2] Between 161 and 163 he was Proconsul of Africa.[3]
He married Caesonia; their known children include a son, Sextus Cocceius Severianus; Sextus Cocceius Vibianus (flourished c. 204), is a known grandson.[4]
See also[edit]
• Cocceia gens
Consul suffect (147), Légat d'Auguste propréteur d'Arabie Pétrée (144)

Family/Spouse: Caesonia. Caesonia (daughter of Cassius Statilius Severus Hadrianus and Juventia Maxime) was born in 105 in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD); died in DECEASED in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: L5NZ-72N

Family/Spouse: Seia Maxima. Seia was born in 135 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in DECEASED in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LTWP-9JB
• Life Event: Between 197 and 201; Imperial Governor of Numidia (Northwest Africia)
• Life Event: 198; Suffect Consul

Notes:

Quintus Anicius Faustus (fl. late 2nd century – early 3rd century AD) was a Roman military officer and senator who was appointed suffect consul in AD 198.[1]
Biography[edit]
Born either in Uzappa in the province of Numidia, or in Praeneste in Italia, it has been speculated that Anicius Faustus was possibly the son of a Sextus Anicius Saturninus and Seia Maxima. A member of the third century gens Anicia and a novus homo, Faustus was appointed the Legatus Augusti pro praetore (or imperial governor) of the province of Numidia by the emperor Septimius Severus, a position he held from AD 197 – 201. During this time he built several defensive forts of the Limes Tripolitanus, in southern Numidia and in Tripolitania,[2] in order to protect the province from the raids of nomadic tribes.
Anicius Faustus was appointed consul suffectus in absentia in AD 198, while serving in Numidia.[3] This was followed by his posting as Legatus Augusti pro praetore of Moesia Superior, which he may have held from possibly AD 202 to 205. He then fell out of favour with Septimius Severus, and this continued through Caracalla’s reign, possibly due to his close working relationship with Gaius Fulvius Plautianus, who was executed for plotting to overthrow the Severan Dynasty.[4] It wasn’t until the reign of Macrinus that he returned to favour, with his appointment as the proconsular governor of Asia, succeeding Gaius Julius Asper, a post which he held for two consecutive years, from AD 217 to 219.[5] His prorogation was made at the expense of the distinguished Marcus Aufidius Fronto, whom Macrinus wanted to humiliate.[6]
Anicius Faustus is speculated to have married either a Vesia Rustica or a Sergia Paulla, daughter of Lucius Sergius Paullus, consul ordinary 168. He probably had at least one son, Quintus Anicius Faustus Paulinus, who was a suffect consul sometime before AD 230.[7]

Family/Spouse: Sergia Paulla Lucius. Sergia was born in 140 in Rome, Roma, Lazio, Italy; died in DECEASED in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LVSF-QCQ

Notes:

Quintus Anicius Faustus Paulinus ca 180 - aft. 230/ca 232 was the Legate of Moesia Inferior between 229 and 230 or ca 230 to 232. He was the son of Quintus Anicius Faustus, Legate of Numidia and Consul in 198, and wife Sergia Paulla.

He married a daughter of Sextus Cocceius Vibianus, a Senator in 204, and was the father of:

Quintus Anicius Faustus born ca 210, married before 240 Asinia Juliana Nicomacha born ca 215, daughter of Gaius Asinius Nicomachus Julianus, Proconsul of Asia circa 250, and they were the parents of:
Sextus Anicius Faustus Paulinus or Marcus Junius Caesonius Nicomachus Anicius Faustus Paulinus, Consul of Rome in 298
Sextus Cocceius Anicius Faustus, Proconsul of Africa between 260 and 268

Family/Spouse: Paulla Sergia. Paulla (daughter of Paullus Lucius Sergius II) was born in 160 in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD); died in DECEASED in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LVYW-ZTL

Family/Spouse: de Lombardy, Ibor I. Ibor (son of de Lombardy, Haquinus and de Lombardy, Gambara Aalis) was born in 200 in Europe; died in DECEASED in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GZY2-TD6

Family/Spouse: de Toxandría, Marcomir V. Marcomir (son of of the Salian Franks, Childeric I and Ceasonia Julianus) was born in 220 in Tongeren, Boxtel, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands; died in 281 in Cordemais, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GZBR-RBV

Family/Spouse: de Winniles, Gamara. Gamara was born in 252 in Europe; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LZ6Y-LNZ
• Appointments / Titles: 289; King of the Scambian Franks

Family/Spouse: de Francs, Queen Athildis. Athildis was born in 245 in Germany; died in 289 in Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GZTX-QPJ

Family/Spouse: Iunii Neratii. Iunii (daughter of Neratius Gallus and Aemilia Pudentilla) was born in 275 in Italy; died in DECEASED in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Chief of the Ripuarian Franks
• Appointments / Titles: King of the Franks
• FSID: LZ6Y-LVT

Notes:

In 306 he and Ascaric led a Frankish raid across the Rhine into southern Gaul while Constantine the Great was campaigning against the Picts in Britannia. Apparently the two had made a previous agreement with Rome not to cross the border, since Constantine sought to punish them as traitors upon his return. The two chieftains were defeated, captured, and executed "for their past crimes," an act which "bound with fear the slippery loyalty of the whole race," according to one of the emperor's anonymous panegyrists. The execution took place in one of the chief cities of Gaul, probably Trier, and the two Franks and their followers were torn apart by animals in the amphitheatre before a large crowd. Their defeat was followed by the subjection of the Bructeri.

-- Wikiwand: Merogais

Family/Spouse: d'Alemanie, Queen Eva Blesinde Margolis. Eva was born in 272 in Tongeren, Limburg, Belgium; died in 307 in Gaul, Roman Empire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: G8L1-KRD

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: G884-2P7

Notes:

When Ascyla Queen of Lombardy de Ascyllius was born in 0322, in Gaul, Roman Empire, her father, Ascyllius de Francie, was 19 and her mother, Asilia de Lombardie, was 18. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Frankish General Teutomer Hildeoch. She died on 15 August 0413, in France, at the age of 91.

Family/Spouse: de France, Ascyllius. Ascyllius (son of de Toxandrie, King Ragaise and d'Alemanie, Queen Eva Blesinde Margolis) was born in 303 in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD); died in 338 in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD); was buried in 379 in Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: of The East Franks, King Dagobert II. Dagobert (son of of the East Franks, Génébald I and of the Sicambrian Franks, Queen Athildis Coilus) was born in 300 in Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died on 23 Dec 379 in Cöln, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was buried on 23 Dec 379 in Sachsen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Duke
• Appointments / Titles: Duke of The East Franks
• Appointments / Titles: King of the Salic Franks
• Life Event: 1er Roi Franc en Toxandrie, Patrice De Constantinople, Sénateur
• Life Event: Patrice of Constantinople
• Life Event: Sénateur d'Orient of Rome
• FSID: GMN9-RQ2
• Occupation: Roman General of the fourth century, active under the Emperor Constantius II
• Birth: Jan 295, Kingdom of the Salian Franks
• Birth: 300, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
• Burial: 360, Gaul, Roman Empire
• Death: Jan 360, Worms, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
• Death: 379, Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Notes:

From Wikipedia

Toxandria -
Toxandria in a map of Central Europe (919-1125).Toxandria is the classical name for a region between the Meuse and the Scheldt rivers in the Netherlands and Belgium. The name is also spelled Taxandria. The Salian Franks that settled the area in the 4th century became known as Toxandrians. These tribes gave rise to the Merovingian dynasty that came to dominate what is now France.

In these ancient times, the many barbarian tribes, given the broad label as Germanic tribes (Latin Germanicus) by the Romans, originated from Scandinavia and had by the 1st century BC spread through vast areas of today's central and western Europe.

Because of their continuous raids, these tribes subdivided into separate clans and moved on to other areas. In the middle of the 3rd century, two members of the tribal confederacy known as the Franks, the Salians and the Ripuarians, began penetrating the Roman frontier around Mainz but were soon driven back by Emperor Probus.

Despite the temporary setback, the moves against the ever-weakening Roman masters resulted in Emperor Julian buying peace in 358 by handing over Toxandria to the Salians who then became Roman allies and provided troops for the imperial army.

This entente would shape both the Salian language and law, resulting in the 6th century Salic law written in Latin. The Ripuarians took up residence in a strip of territory between the Rhine River and the Meuse and, like all the wandering tribes, never formed any permanent alliances with the Salians in Toxandria.

In the ensuing years, the Toxandrians did not continue to collectively wander from one place to another as other Germanic tribes, but instead began to expand their territory outwards. The Romans were soon again under attack with the emergence of the first strong leader Meroveus, after whom the Merovingian dynasty would be named.

Notably, his son, Childeric I made further agreements that expanded their territory while aiding the Romans in driving out several invaders from around Orléans and Angers. In the ensuing years, Childeric's son Clovis I emerged as the dominant force who would, through his military might, add parts of present day Germany to his kingdom and shape what was to become modern day France.

Dagobert is a fictitious character, or rather one whose true facts have escaped genealogists so far.

Family/Spouse: de Lombardy, Asilia. Asilia (daughter of d'Alemanie, Aio Agio Ajonis Agiluf and Iunii Neratii) was born in 304 in Germany; died in 377 in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Life Event: First King of France and Toxandrie
• Life Event: Patrice of Constantinople
• Life Event: Roman General of the fourth century, active under the Emperor Constantius II
• Life Event: Sénateur d'Orient of Rome
• FSID: GMN9-RQ2
• Life Event: 355; He retained the office of Tribune of the Gentiles and protested in the intrigues against the Gaul officer Claudio Silvano.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: G7BF-Z9J
• Occupation: Frankish General

Notes:

https://www.geni.com/people/Teutomer-a-Frankish-general/6000000016634239813

Family/Spouse: de Ascyllius, Queen Ascyla. Ascyla (daughter of de France, Ascyllius and de Lombardy, Asilia) was born in 322 in Toxandria, De Kempen, Limburg, Belgium; died on 15 Aug 413 in Toxandria, De Kempen, Limburg, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Queen of Lombardia
• Appointments / Titles: Queen of the Franks at Toxandria
• FSID: LZVX-839

Notes:

When Ascyla Queen of Lombardy de Ascyllius was born in 0322, in Gaul, Roman Empire, her father, Ascyllius de Francie, was 19 and her mother, Asilia de Lombardie, was 18. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Frankish General Teutomer Hildeoch. She died on 15 August 0413, in France, at the age of 91.

Theudemeres is the son of the Roman commander, Ricimer (Richomeres). A Roman army enters Gaul, possibly in retaliation for Frankish support for the Roman usurper, Jovinus. Theudemeres and his mother Ascyla (Ricimer's wife) are executed by the sword.

Family/Spouse: Teutomer Hildeoch. Teutomer (son of de Francs, Germain) was born in 310 in Milano, Lombardia, Italy; died on 26 Jun 363 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LZLX-M8F
• Name: Genebald of The East Franks
• Title: Duke
• Birth: 354, Kingdom of the East Franks
• Appointments / Titles: 388, Köln, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; King of Salian Franks
• Appointments / Titles: Between 414 and 419; Duke of the East Franks
• Death: 419, Moselle, Lorraine, France

Notes:

The History Files

The Sicambri were one of the main branches of the powerful fourth century confederation known as the Franks. As with most Germans, their origins lay in the aforementioned Scandinavia and the northern reaches of mainland Europe, but later legend claimed a homeland for them in the region of the Black Sea. They gradually migrated to the Rhine and were first documented when they were to be found occupying territory on the Lower Rhine valley (on the east bank, in what is now northern Belgium and the southern Netherlands), during the third century (the Period of Migration). This unsettled period eventually forced the creation of several new alliances and confederations, with the Franks being one of the biggest of the latter. They were one of several West Germanic federations, and were formed of elements of the Ampsivarii, Batavi, Bructeri, Chamavi, Chatti, Chattuarii, Cherusci, Frisii, Salians, Sicambri, Tencteri, Tubantes, and Usipetes. Most of these peoples were already living along the Rhine's northern borders in what was becoming known as Francia.

(Names listed as "Sicambri include, Genebald, Merovee, Chlodio, Dagobert, Chlodomer, over several generations)

... in 388, Gendobaud (aka Genobaud), Sunno and Marcomer lead an invasion of Salian Franks into the Roman provinces of Germania and Belgia. Their warriors break through the limes, destroying farmlands and killing people around the city of Cologne, before retreating across the border with their booty. Roman General Quintinus mounts a reprisal raid across the border but his troops are surrounded and beaten, and very few of them make it back.

A later source suggests that after the death of Sunno, Marcomer attempts to unite the Frankish tribes by proposing his own son, Pharamond as the first king, or perhaps 'high king' would be more appropriate. His success or failure is unrecorded, but in the early fifth century, Pharamond is certainly regarded as the first (high) king of the Franks.

From this point, rival Frankish divisions begin to be recorded, and the Sicambrian Franks themselves emerge more into history than the traditional genealogies of previous leaders can allow. The Salian Franks prove to be strong rivals to the Sicambri, although it appears that both branches soon merge under the Salian banner and follow a single, semi-legendary leader in the form of Merovée.

...

Family/Spouse: of Toxandria, Princess Blesinda. Blesinda (daughter of de Toxandria, Priaros and de Menapie, Dulce Douce) was born in 358 in Kingdom of the Sicambrian Franks, Gaul, Roman Empire; died in 420 in Kingdom of the Sicambrian Franks, Gaul, Roman Empire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: de Camulod, Althildis. Althildis was born in 338 in Alsace, Lorraine, France; died in 411 in Somme, Picardie, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Queen of Lombardia
• Appointments / Titles: Queen of the Franks at Toxandria
• FSID: LZVX-839

Notes:

When Ascyla Queen of Lombardy de Ascyllius was born in 0322, in Gaul, Roman Empire, her father, Ascyllius de Francie, was 19 and her mother, Asilia de Lombardie, was 18. She had at least 3 sons and 3 daughters with Frankish General Teutomer Hildeoch. She died on 15 August 0413, in France, at the age of 91.

Theudemeres is the son of the Roman commander, Ricimer (Richomeres). A Roman army enters Gaul, possibly in retaliation for Frankish support for the Roman usurper, Jovinus. Theudemeres and his mother Ascyla (Ricimer's wife) are executed by the sword.

Family/Spouse: Teutomer Hildeoch. Teutomer (son of de Francs, Germain) was born in 310 in Milano, Lombardia, Italy; died on 26 Jun 363 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: GHMQ-1FV
• Life Event: Between 376 and 396, Gaul, Roman Empire; King of Toxandrie and France

Notes:

roi des Francs en Toxandrie, Chef des Francs 376-396

Family/Spouse: de Menapie, Dulce Douce. Dulce (daughter of Teutomer Hildeoch and de Ascyllius, Queen Ascyla) was born in 340 in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD); died in 375 in Roman Empire ( 27 BC - 389 AD). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: G836-3LQ

Family/Spouse: de Toxandria, Priaros. Priaros (son of de Toxandrie, Malaric I) was born in 324 in Toxandria, De Kempen, Limburg, Belgium; died in 396 in Toxandria, De Kempen, Limburg, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Queen of the Franks
• Appointments / Titles: Queen of the Salian Franks
• FSID: LZGG-LSG
• Occupation: Princess of Cimbri

Notes:

She is said to have descended from people of this area. Cimbri is the area now known as the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark-

Argotta "la Mère de tout les Rois" des Francs
French: Argote des Cimbres, Swedish: Argotta av Westphalia (av Östfrankerna)

Also Known As: "Argotta Queen of the (Salic) Franks", "De Thuringia", "Kings Of France", "wife of The King of the Franks", "wife of the King of Westphalia", "Argotta av Friesland", "Argotta Sicambria", "Mother of all the kings of France", "Princess of Sicambrai", "Argotta Rosamonde"

Birthdate: circa 376
Birthplace: Frankish Territory [North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]
Death: circa 438 (54-70)
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Genebald II, duke of the East Franks and Athildis de Camulod

Wife of Pharamond, king of the Franks and Théodémir, King of the Franks at Thérouanne

Mother of Fredemundus; Clodius de Cologne, VI; Adalbertus de Cologne; Chararic (Guerric) de Tongres; Sigebert De Soissons, King de Cologne; Weldelphus; Frotmund; Mérovée I de France; Erlicia Erelieve de Cologne; Basina de Cologne; Chlodégar, king of the Salian Francs at Cologne.

Sister of Amalaberge of the Franks and Dagobert, Duke of the East Franks

Occupation: Queen of the Franks, ABT 0376, Koningin van de Franken, Princesse, des Cimbres, Princess France/Sicambrian Heiress, , Princess of the Salic Franks, Queen of the Salic Franks, Queen of Franks, Queen of the Salian Franks, MSD2-MQM.

Birth: about 376; Sicambria, Western Europe, France.
Death: about 438; Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Prussia, Germany.

Argotta "la Mère de tout les Roys" des Francs
French: Argote des Cimbres, Swedish: Argotta av Westphalia (av Östfrankerna)

Also Known As: "Argotta Queen of the (Salic) Franks", "De Thuringia", "Kings Of France", "wife of The King of the Franks", "wife of the King of Westphalia", "Argotta av Friesland", "Argotta Sicambria", "Mother of all the kings of France", "Princess of Sicambrai", "Argotta Rosamonde"

Birthdate: circa 376
Birthplace: Frankish Territory [North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]
Death: circa 438 (54-70)
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Genebald II, duke of the East Franks and Athildis de Camulod

Wife of Pharamond, king of the Franks and Théodémir, King of the Franks at Thérouanne

Mother of Fredemundus; Clodius de Cologne, VI; Adalbertus de Cologne; Chararic (Guerric) de Tongres; Sigebert De Soissons, King de Cologne; Weldelphus; Frotmund; Mérovée I de France; Erlicia Erelieve de Cologne; Basina de Cologne; Chlodégar, king of the Salian Francs at Cologne.

Sister of Amalaberge of the Franks and Dagobert, Duke of the East Franks

Occupation: Queen of the Franks, ABT 0376, Koningin van de Franken, Princesse, des Cimbres, Princess France/Sicambrian Heiress, , Princess of the Salic Franks, Queen of the Salic Franks, Queen of Franks, Queen of the Salian Franks, MSD2-MQM

Family/Spouse: of the Francs, King Pharamund. Pharamund (son of of The East Franks, Duke Marcomir II and de Lombardy, Hatilde) was born in 370 in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died on 27 Apr 427 in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was buried in May 427 in Kingdom of the Salian Franks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: G836-3LQ

Family/Spouse: de Toxandria, Priaros. Priaros (son of de Toxandrie, Malaric I) was born in 324 in Toxandria, De Kempen, Limburg, Belgium; died in 396 in Toxandria, De Kempen, Limburg, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Duchess Of The West Franks
• Appointments / Titles: Princess of the East Franks
• Appointments / Titles: Princess of the Suevi
• FSID: LXS1-YZL

Family/Spouse: of the East Franks, King Génébald II. Génébald (son of of The East Franks, King Dagobert II and de Lombardy, Asilia) was born in 354 in Kingdom of the Sicambrian Franks, Gaul, Roman Empire; died in 419 in Cöln, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was buried in 419 in Kingdom of the Salian Franks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: Merovingian
• FSID: L8PY-CFB
• Appointments / Titles: Between 428 and 448; King of the Salian Franks

Notes:

Son of King Pharamond and Argotta Rosamund.
Father of King Meroveus

Biography: He is the oldest king of the Merovingian dynasty whose existence is certain.

Towards the middle of the 5th century, Clodion entered with his army into Roman territory from East of the Rhine (Allemagne) and seized the Cambrésis and the Southern Artois. He founded a small Frankish kingdom, which Clovis I inherited, and which was the embryo of the future kingdom of France.

Before the advent of Clodion and since 342, the Salian Franks are installed as foederatie inside the Roman Empire, in the North of Gaul, in Toxandrie, between the Moesan marshes, North of the current Maastricht, and the Charbonnière forest.

On January 17, 395, the Roman Empire was divided into two parts: the Eastern Empire and the Western Empire. From 407, several Germanic peoples entered Gaul and settled there. The Visigoths founded a kingdom in Aquitaine, the Alans (non-Germanic people) took up their quarters near Orleans, the Burgundians and the Alamans settled along the Rhine. During the reign of Clodion, Valentinian III ruled the western part of the Roman Empire.

Clodion begins to reign around 428. He succeeds his father King Theodomir. He leads the people of the Salian Franks from its capital, the fortress of Dispargum, located east of the Rhine.
Towards 432, Clodion learns that the cities of the Roman province of Belgium secondus are defenseless: Aetius, Roman general charged with the defense of Gaul, took many soldiers from these territories to fight alternately the Burgundians, the Alans, the Rhenish Franks, the anti-tax revolts and the Visigoths. Clodion decides to mount an expedition and mobilizes his entire army. Crossing the Charbonnière forest, the Franks seized Tournai, carried Cambrai and Arras at the first assault and reduced the whole country from the surroundings to the Somme. More than easy pillaging, Clodion seeks to give his authority as a warrior king a territorial base. The occupation lasted a few years without Aetius trying to end it.

In 448, Clodion, who celebrated the wedding of an important member of his army in the village of Helena near Arras, was attacked by General Aetius and his lieutenant Majorien. The general wants to put back the Salian Franks who have annexed territories without his authorization. Clodion, not prepared for the confrontation, is forced to flee. But Aetius, who does not have the military means to occupy the territory again, prefers to renegotiate with Clodion and authorizes him to settle in the Empire, in this case on the territories they have already conquered in Arras , Cambrai and Tournai (its capital).
After more than twenty years of reign, Clodion died shortly before the year 451. According to Frankish custom, his kingdom was divided between his sons. The elder, undoubtedly Mérovée, obtains the city of Tournai and its region. A second heir obtains Cambrai and a third Tongeren.

Union and descendants: He married Hildegonde of Cologne who followed. The couple had several children, including:
- Mévovée Ier (411/457) king of the Franks, although few documents attest to his existence.
- Chlodebaud of Cologne (420/483), king of the Rhenish Franks,
- Lambert of Thérouanne (425/451) king of Thérouanne.

Family/Spouse: de Cologne, Ildegonde. Ildegonde (daughter of of the Franks, Marcomir and de Lombardy, Ildegonde) was born in 399 in Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was christened in 450 in Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died in 450 in Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: House of Heruli
• House: Ostrogoths
• FSID: LHW3-32S
• Religion: Catholic

Notes:

-- Wikiwand: Ereleuva

Ereleuva was the mother of the Ostrogothic king Theoderic the Great. She often is referred to as the concubine of Theoderic's father, Theodemir, although historian Thomas Hodgkin notes "this word of reproach hardly does justice to her position. In many of the Teutonic nations, as among the Norsemen of a later century, there seems to have been a certain laxity as to the marriage rite..." That Gelasius refers to her as "regina" ("queen") suggests that she had a prominent social position despite the informality of her union with Theodemir.

Ereleuva was Catholic, and was baptized with the name "Eusebia." She had probably converted from Arianism as an adult, but the details are unclear in the historical record. Ereleuva is regarded as having taken to Catholicism quite seriously, as indicated by her correspondence with Pope Gelasius and mention of her in Ennodius's "Panegyric of Theoderic."

Her name was spelled variously by historians in antiquity as "Ereriliva" (by the fragmentary chronicle of Anonymus Valesianus, c. 527) and "Erelieva' (by Jordanes), and now largely is known to modern historians as "Ereleuva," as she was addressed most frequently by Pope Gelasius I. Related to the Erilaz from which the Heruli were tied with the Ostrogoths even after they returned to Scandinavia.
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Foundation for Medieval Genealogy-

Concubine: ERELEUVA [Erelieva]. She was baptised a Catholic as EUSEBIA[235]. Iordanes names "Erelieva concubina" as mother of Theodoric[236]. She went with her son to Italy.

Theodemir had three illegitimate children by his concubine:

461 AD; She accompanied her son when he was taken hostage to Constantinople in about 461

2. THEODORIC ([451][260]-30 Aug 526). Iordanes names "Theodericum" as son of Theodemir, in a later passage naming his mother "Erelieva concubina"[261]. He was proclaimed THEODORIC "the Great" King of Italy in Mar 493 after defeating King Odovacar.
- see below.

3. THEODIMUND. The primary source which names him has not yet been identified. He marched westwards to Durazzo with his brother in 479, leading one of the three marching columns[262].

4. daughter (-[479]). The primary source which records her existence has not yet been identified. She died about the time her half-brother marched westwards to Durazzo[263].

Family/Spouse: of the Ostrogoths, King Theodemir. Theodemir was born in 413; died in 471 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Duchess Of The West Franks
• Appointments / Titles: Princess of the East Franks
• Appointments / Titles: Princess of the Suevi
• FSID: LXS1-YZL

Family/Spouse: of the East Franks, King Génébald II. Génébald (son of of The East Franks, King Dagobert II and de Lombardy, Asilia) was born in 354 in Kingdom of the Sicambrian Franks, Gaul, Roman Empire; died in 419 in Cöln, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was buried in 419 in Kingdom of the Salian Franks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Queen of the Franks
• Appointments / Titles: Queen of the Salian Franks
• FSID: LZGG-LSG
• Occupation: Princess of Cimbri

Notes:

She is said to have descended from people of this area. Cimbri is the area now known as the Jutland Peninsula of Denmark-

Argotta "la Mère de tout les Rois" des Francs
French: Argote des Cimbres, Swedish: Argotta av Westphalia (av Östfrankerna)

Also Known As: "Argotta Queen of the (Salic) Franks", "De Thuringia", "Kings Of France", "wife of The King of the Franks", "wife of the King of Westphalia", "Argotta av Friesland", "Argotta Sicambria", "Mother of all the kings of France", "Princess of Sicambrai", "Argotta Rosamonde"

Birthdate: circa 376
Birthplace: Frankish Territory [North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]
Death: circa 438 (54-70)
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Genebald II, duke of the East Franks and Athildis de Camulod

Wife of Pharamond, king of the Franks and Théodémir, King of the Franks at Thérouanne

Mother of Fredemundus; Clodius de Cologne, VI; Adalbertus de Cologne; Chararic (Guerric) de Tongres; Sigebert De Soissons, King de Cologne; Weldelphus; Frotmund; Mérovée I de France; Erlicia Erelieve de Cologne; Basina de Cologne; Chlodégar, king of the Salian Francs at Cologne.

Sister of Amalaberge of the Franks and Dagobert, Duke of the East Franks

Occupation: Queen of the Franks, ABT 0376, Koningin van de Franken, Princesse, des Cimbres, Princess France/Sicambrian Heiress, , Princess of the Salic Franks, Queen of the Salic Franks, Queen of Franks, Queen of the Salian Franks, MSD2-MQM.

Birth: about 376; Sicambria, Western Europe, France.
Death: about 438; Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Prussia, Germany.

Argotta "la Mère de tout les Roys" des Francs
French: Argote des Cimbres, Swedish: Argotta av Westphalia (av Östfrankerna)

Also Known As: "Argotta Queen of the (Salic) Franks", "De Thuringia", "Kings Of France", "wife of The King of the Franks", "wife of the King of Westphalia", "Argotta av Friesland", "Argotta Sicambria", "Mother of all the kings of France", "Princess of Sicambrai", "Argotta Rosamonde"

Birthdate: circa 376
Birthplace: Frankish Territory [North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany]
Death: circa 438 (54-70)
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Immediate Family:

Daughter of Genebald II, duke of the East Franks and Athildis de Camulod

Wife of Pharamond, king of the Franks and Théodémir, King of the Franks at Thérouanne

Mother of Fredemundus; Clodius de Cologne, VI; Adalbertus de Cologne; Chararic (Guerric) de Tongres; Sigebert De Soissons, King de Cologne; Weldelphus; Frotmund; Mérovée I de France; Erlicia Erelieve de Cologne; Basina de Cologne; Chlodégar, king of the Salian Francs at Cologne.

Sister of Amalaberge of the Franks and Dagobert, Duke of the East Franks

Occupation: Queen of the Franks, ABT 0376, Koningin van de Franken, Princesse, des Cimbres, Princess France/Sicambrian Heiress, , Princess of the Salic Franks, Queen of the Salic Franks, Queen of Franks, Queen of the Salian Franks, MSD2-MQM

Family/Spouse: of the Francs, King Pharamund. Pharamund (son of of The East Franks, Duke Marcomir II and de Lombardy, Hatilde) was born in 370 in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died on 27 Apr 427 in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; was buried in May 427 in Kingdom of the Salian Franks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• House: Merovingian
• FSID: LZ86-1NG
• Appointments / Titles: 450; King of the Salien Franks at Tournai

Notes:

Merovech is the semi-legendary founder of the Merovingian dynasty of the Salian Franks (although either Childeric I, his supposed son, or Clovis I, his supposed grandson, also can be considered the founder), which later became the dominant Frankish tribe. He is proposed to be one of several barbarian warlords and kings that joined forces with the Roman general Aetius against the Huns under Attila at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in Gaul.

The family of Childeric and Clovis, the first Frankish large-scale royal dynasty called themselves Merovingians ("descendants of Meroveus") after him, and this was known to historians in the following centuries, but no more contemporary evidence exists. The most important such written source, Gregory of Tours, recorded that Merovech was said to be descended from Chlodio, a roughly contemporary Frankish warlord who pushed from the Silva Carbonaria in modern central Belgium as far south as the Somme, north of Paris in modern-day France.

The name "Merovech" is related to Marwig, lit. "famed fight" (compare modern Dutch mare "news, rumour"/vermaard "famous" as well as "(ge)vecht," "fight" with" -vech)."

There is little information about him in the later histories of the Franks. Gregory of Tours named him only once as the father of Childeric I, but remained vague about his relationship to Chlodio. The "Chronicle of Fredegar" recounts that Merovech was born after Chlodio's wife encountered a sea creature while bathing in the sea; according to Fredegar it remained unclear whether Merovech's father was the creature or Chlodio. Another theory considers this legend to be the creation of a mythological past needed to back up the fast-rising Frankish rule in Western Europe.

Clodio is said to have been defeated by Flavius Aëtius at Vicus Helena in Artois in 448. Historian Ian S. Wood therefore would place his son somewhere in the second half of the fifth century.

A contemporary Roman historian, Priscus, writes of having witnessed in Rome a "lad without down on his cheeks as yet and with fair hair so long that it poured down his shoulders, Aetius had made him his adopted son," Priscus writes that the excuse Attila used for waging war on the Franks was the death of their king and the disagreement of his children over the succession, the elder being allied with Attila and the younger with Aetius. As Chlodio died just before Attila's invasion, this seems to suggest that Merovech was in fact Chlodio's son.

The legend about Merovech's conception was adapted in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln in their book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," as the seed of a new idea. They hypothesized that this "descended from a fish" legend actually referred to the concept that the Merovingian line had married into the bloodline of Jesus Christ, since the symbol for early Christians also had been a fish. This theory, with no other basis than the authors' hypothesis, was further popularized in 2003 via Dan Brown's bestselling novel, "The Da Vinci Code." However, there was no evidence for this claim that Merovech is descended from Jesus.

The identity and historicity of Merovech is one of the driving mysteries in "The Widow’s Son," second book of Robert Anton Wilson’s "The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles," first introducing the fish legend to the reader by having the early Merovingians appear in a vision as a hideous fish creature resembling H. P. Lovecraft’s Deep Ones, before settling on a variation on "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," which goes a step further by identifying Jesus and Mary Magdalene as the bridegroom and bride in "The Alchemical Marriage of Christian Rosycross" and Merovech as the titular Widow's Son from Masonic lore and positing that the entire bloodline is descended from alien-human hybrids.

-- Wikiwand: Merovech

Family/Spouse: de Cologne, Chlodeswinthe Verica. Chlodeswinthe was born in 418 in Cologne, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; died in 449. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Princess of the Ostrogoths
• Appointments / Titles: Queen of the Vandals
• FSID: LZNR-Y21
• Life Event: 523; After her husband Thrasamund's death, his successor Hilderic issued orders for the return of all the Catholic bishops from exile, and Boniface, a strenuous asserter of orthodoxy, bishop of the African Church. In response, Amalfrida headed a party of revolt; she called in the assistance of the Moors, and battle was joined at Capsa, about three hundred miles to the south of the capital, on the edge of the Libyan desert. party was beaten, and Hilderic had her arrested and imprisoned in a successful bid to overthrow Ostrogothic hegemony.

Notes:

Amalafrida or Amalfrède, was Queen of the Vandals and African Alans. She was the sister of Theodoric the Great, King of the Ostrogoths of Italy, and the wife of Thrasamund, King of the Vandals from 496 to 523.

PLEASE DO NOT DISTURB THIS LINE THERE ARE ADDITIONAL RECORDS ATTACHED TO READ ONLY FILES

From Wikipedia-

Amalafrida was the daughter of Theodemir, king of the Ostrogoths, and his wife Erelieva. She was the sister of Theodoric the Great, and mother of Theodahad, both of whom were kings of the Ostrogoths.

In 500, to further cement his authority over the Vandals, Theodoric arranged a marriage alliance with Thrasamund, king of the Vandals, who became Amalfrida's second husband. She brought a very large dowry, but also 5,000 Gothic troops.[1]

After her husband Thrasamund's death, his successor Hilderic issued orders for the return of all the Catholic bishops from exile, and Boniface, a strenuous asserter of orthodoxy, bishop of the African Church. In response, Amalfrida headed a party of revolt; she called in the assistance of the Moors, and battle was joined at Capsa, about three hundred miles to the south of the capital, on the edge of the Libyan desert.[2]

In 523, Amalafrida's party was beaten, and Hilderic had her arrested and imprisoned in a successful bid to overthrow Ostrogothic hegemony; he also had her Gothic troops killed. She died in prison, exact date unknown.[3]
Amalafrida had two children, the aforementioned Theodahad and Amalaberga, who married Hermanfrid, king of the Thuringii. It is not known who the father of these children was.
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Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

AMALAFRIDA (-murdered [523/25]). Iordanes names "Amalfridam germanam suam [Theoderici]" as the mother of "Theodehadi" and wife of "Africa regi Vandalorum…Thrasamundo"[237].

Emperor Zeno used her as ambassador to her half-brother in 487 to thwart his attack on Constantinople[238]. Her second marriage was arranged by her half-brother, Theodoric King of Italy, as part of his efforts to foster the support of the Vandals. Amalafrida's dowry was Lilybæum in western Sicily[239].

After the death of her husband, she unsuccessfully protested his successor's withdrawal of support from her brother, but she was outmanœuvred and killed[240].

m firstly [HUGO ---] (-before 500). The Widukindi Res Gestæ Saxonicæ names "Huga rex Francorum…unicam filiam Amalbergam" who married "Irminfredo regi Thuringorum"[241], but there is no indication to whom "Huga rex Francorum" could refer.

m secondly ([500]) THRASAMUND, King of the Vandals, son of [GENTO the Vandal or GELIMER the Vandal]

Summary
Relationships
Parents:
Father: Theodemir or Thiudimir, Co-King of the Ostrogoths (451-468), King of the Ostrogoths (468-474)
Mother: Unknown wife (not Ereleuva, Theodemir's concubine)
Half-Siblings (children of Ereleuva):
1. Theoderic I (b. c451), King of the Ostrogoths (474 - 30 August 526)
2. Theodimund (fl. 479)
3. Unknown daughter (d. c479)
Spouses and children:

First Husband: Hugo Rex Francorum (Peter Heather from the English Wikipedia page apparently does not identify this individual, but FMG does)

1. Theodahad, King of Italy (d. December 536, murdered by his own men mid-flight from battle near Rome toward Ravenna, m. Gudeliva and had two children)

2. Amalaberga, Queen of the Thuringians (510-534, m. Hermanafred, King of the Thuringians, died after 534 in Ravenna)

Second Husband: Thrasamund (b. before 460), King of the Vandals (496-523)
Basic information:
Birth: 455/460 according to Mittelalter Genealogie. The Ostrogoths under her father didn't leave Pannonia until 473, so this is likely her birth location.
Baptism: Unknown, but Arian Christian
Marriage:
1. Before 500 - Hugo Rex Francorum
2. 500 - Thrasamund, King of the Vandals
Death: 525 - imprisoned in Carthago
Burial: Unknown
Occupation:
Before 500, wife of Hugo Rex Francorum
500-523, Queen of the Vandals, or wife of King Thrasamund of the Vandal
523-525, prisoner in Carthago.
Alternate Names: Amalafrida, Amalfrida, Amalafréde

523 AD; After her husband Thrasamund's death, his successor Hilderic issued orders for the return of all the Catholic bishops from exile, and Boniface, a strenuous asserter of orthodoxy, bishop of the African Church. In response, Amalfrida headed a party of revolt; she called in the assistance of the Moors, and battle was joined at Capsa, about three hundred miles to the south of the capital, on the edge of the Libyan desert. party was beaten, and Hilderic had her arrested and imprisoned in a successful bid to overthrow Ostrogothic hegemony.

Amalafrida married of The Vandals, King Thrasamund in 500. Thrasamund was born in 456 in Carthage, Tunis, Africa; died on 13 Jun 523 in Carthage, Tunis, Africa; was buried in 575 in Carthage, Tunis, Africa. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]