Lantechildis (or Lenteildis) was a Frankish noblewoman, the daughter of the Frankish king Childeric I (d. 481) and the Thuringian noblewoman Basina (d. 477). She was a sister of Clovis I.[1] She is mentioned in Gregory of Tours and the Liber historiae Francorum.[2]
Lantechildis converted to Arianism and received Arian baptism.[3] She may have been influenced to convert after her sister Audofleda converted at her marriage to the Ostrogothic king Theoderic the Great.[4] Later she converted again and received a Catholic baptism like her brother and sister, Albofledis.[2][5] Clovis' baptism took place between 496/498 and 508/509.[6][4] Her conversion from heresy was the subject of a sermon by Bishop Avitus of Vienne entitled in Latin Homilia de conversione Lenteildis Chlodovaei sororis, "Homily on the conversion of Clovis' sister Lenteildis".[7][8][9] Avitus preached the sermon at her baptism.[3]
Notes edit
- ^ Martindale 1980, p. 1335.
- ^ a b Martindale 1980, p. 657.
- ^ a b Cusack 1998, pp. 72–73.
- ^ a b Hartmann 2008, p. 136.
- ^ Vitiello 2018, p. 89.
- ^ Shanzer 1998, p. 29.
- ^ Hartmann 2008, p. 131.
- ^ Wood 1994, p. 44.
- ^ Shanzer & Wood 2002, pp. 364, 368.
Sources edit
- Cusack, Carole M. (1998). Conversion Among the Germanic Peoples. Cassell.
- Hartmann, Martina (2008). "Gregor von Tours und arianische Königinnen oder Hatte Chlodwig I. zwei oder drei Schwestern?". Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung. 116 (1–4): 130–137. doi:10.7767/miog.2008.116.14.130. S2CID 163615978.
- Martindale, John R., ed. (1980). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume II, AD 395–527. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-20159-4.
- Shanzer, Danuta (1998). "Dating the Baptism of Clovis: The Bishop of Vienne vs the Bishop of Tours". Early Medieval Europe. 7 (1): 29–57. doi:10.1111/1468-0254.00017. S2CID 161819012.
- Shanzer, Danuta; Wood, Ian N., eds. (2002). Avitus of Vienne: Letters and Selected Prose. Liverpool University Press.
- Vitiello, Massimiliano (2018). Amalasuintha: The Transformation of Queenship in the Post-Roman World. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Wood, Ian N. (1994). The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450–751. Harlow: Longman.