Clotilde

According to Gregory of Tours, Clotilde was a daughter of Chilperic, a Burgundian prince killed by his brother, King Gundobad. Envoys whom Clovis sent to Burgundy noticed her, and the king asked for her in marriage. She had their sons baptised and argued with her husband against his gods (Gregory of Tours, Histories 2.28–29). When he had made his vow in battle she was the one who called in Bishop Remigius to instruct him (Gregory of Tours, Histories 2.30–31).

After the king’s death she went to live at Tours, where she served at the church of Saint Martin and seldom visited Paris (Gregory of Tours, Histories 2.43). Her part in the conversion is told here from Gregory, who wrote in the city where she had spent her widowhood; the contemporary letter of Avitus to Clovis does not mention her.