Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: King of Westphalia
• House: Merovingian
• FSID: LCXK-GNP
• Occupation: Duke of the East Franks

Notes:

Clodius IV, Duke of East Franks and Chlodius Le Chevelu are two different people. The former, born circa 324 was married to Blesinde of Sueve born about 325.

The latter was born circa 390.

Family/Spouse: d'Alemanie, Blesinde. Blesinde (daughter of von Alemanien, Chlodomer and de Sueve, Blesinda) was born in 328 in Sachsen, Germany; died in 403 in Kingdom of the Salian Franks. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Duke of the East Franks
• House: Merovingian
• FSID: LJNL-RNH

Notes:

From Wikipedia -

Marcomer (Marcomeres, Marchomer, Marchomir) was a Frankish leader (dux) in the late 4th century who invaded the Roman Empire in the year 388, when the usurper and leader of the whole of Roman Gaul, Magnus Maximus was surrounded in Aquileia by Theodosius I.

The invasion is documented by Gregory of Tours who cited the now lost work of Sulpicius Alexander. According to this account Marcomer, Sunno and Genobaud invaded the Roman provinces Germania Inferior and Gallia Belgica in Gaul. They broke through the limes, killed many people, destroyed the most fruitful lands and made the city of Cologne panic. After this raid, the main body of the Franks moved back over the Rhine with their booty. Some of the Franks remained in the Belgian woods. When the Roman generals Magnus Maximus, Nanninus and Quintinus heard the news in Trier, they attacked those remaining Frankish forces and killed many of them. After this engagement, Quintinus crossed the Rhine to punish the Franks in their own country, however his army was surrounded and beaten. Some Roman soldiers drowned in the marshes, others were killed by Franks; few made it back to their Empire.

Nanninus and Quintinus were replaced by Charietto and Syrus, who were again confronted by an attack of unidentified Franks.

Later, after the fall of Magnus Maximus, Marcomer and Sunno held a short meeting about the recent attacks with the Frank Arbogastes, who was a general (magister militum) in the Roman army. The Franks delivered hostages as usual, and Arbogastes returned to his winter quarters in Trier.

A couple of years later when Arbogastes had seized power and the West Roman army was nearly completely in the hands of Frankish mercenaries, he crossed the Rhine with a Roman army into Germania, because he hated his own kin. Marcomer was seen as leader with Chatti and Ampsivarii but the two did not engage.

Later we hear from the poet Claudian that Marcomer was arrested by Romans and banned to a villa in Tuscany. His brother Sunno crossed the Rhine and tried to settle himself as leader of the band of Marcomir, however he was killed by his own people.

According to the later Liber Historiae Francorum, Marcomer tried to unite the Franks after the death of Sunno. He proposed that the Franks should live under one king and proposed his own son Pharamond (whose earliest mention is in this work, and who is considered mythological by scholars) for the kingship. This source does not relate whether Marcomer succeeded, but from other later sources that recall the account of Liber Historiae Francorum, the impression may be gained that Pharamond was regarded as the first king of the Franks. However, modern scholars, such as Edward James, do not accept this account in the Liber Historiae Francorum as historical, because Marcomer is called the son of the Trojan king Priam. Traditionally Marcomer is also known as Marcomir VI, and made a descendant of King Priam Podarces of Troy by Priam's son Helenus, from whom the Kings of Cimmerian Bosporus were said to descend. Less

Family/Spouse: de Lombardy, Hatilde. Hatilde (daughter of de Lombardy, Himbald and de Lombardy, Hodesh) was born in 356 in Lombardia, Italy; died in 449 in Sachsen, Germany; was buried in 449 in Sachsen, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: 10th Grandmaster of the Order of the Grail
• House: Merovingian
• FSID: LZN1-SLD
• Occupation: First King of the Franks at Cologne -428, King of Tongres
• Appointments / Titles: Between 404 and 418; Duke of the East Franks
• Appointments / Titles: 404; King of The East Franks
• Appointments / Titles: 409, Köln, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany; King of the Franks at Cologne
• Appointments / Titles: Between 419 and 428; King of The Salian Franks

Notes:

The Liber Historiae Francorum from the early 8th century names a king named Faramund (French: Pharamond): he was a son of the (historical) Marcomer and father Chlodios. For a long time Faramund was considered to be the first king of the Merovingian family. Its existence was only recognized as mythical at the end of the 19th century. The author of the Liber Historiae Francorum summarizes the first six books of the history of Gregory of Tours and adds additional information, including those on Faramund. However, for the period in question he did not have a source whose level of knowledge went beyond that of Gregory. It is unlikely that he had access to accurate genealogical information that Gregor did not know.

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Considered to be the first king of the Salian Franks from AD 409, Pharamond is scarcely known to history, living on the fringes of the Roman empire as he did. His parentage is unknown, but he could have been a son of Marcomer.

Contemporary historian Prosper Tiro wrote about Pharamond. In 420, he reportedly led his people across the River Rhine to head into the Roman Empire. This movement effectively separated his tribe from the majority of the Ripuarian Franks who had settled near Cologne. However, there were certainly Franks already settled on the west bank of the Rhine in 407, possibly Sicambrian Franks, so perhaps Pharamond was leading the first group of Salian Franks to arrive.

Pharamond was eventually succeeded by his son Clodio. His wife was Argotta. A Pharamond appears as the king of France in the prose Tristan and later Arthurian works; he was clearly inspired by the historical leader.
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Family/Spouse: of Sicambria, Queen Argotta Rosamund. Argotta (daughter of of the East Franks, King Génébald II and de Camulod, Althildis, daughter of of the East Franks, King Génébald II and of Toxandria, Princess Blesinda) was born in 376 in Cimbria, Arhus, Denmark; died in 438 in Kingdom of the Sicambrian Franks, Gaul, Roman Empire; was buried in 438 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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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.
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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]