Lenteild

Lantechildis

Lantechildis

Frankish noblewoman

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

  1. [1]
    Martindale 1980, p. 1335.
  2. [2]
    Martindale 1980, p. 657.
  3. [3]
    Cusack 1998, pp. 72–73.
  4. [4]
    Hartmann 2008, p. 136.
  5. [5]
    Vitiello 2018, p. 89.
  6. [6]
    Shanzer 1998, p. 29.
  7. [7]
    Hartmann 2008, p. 131.
  8. [8]
    Wood 1994, p. 44.
  9. [9]
    Shanzer & Wood 2002, pp. 364, 368.

Sources

  • 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.
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