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Accordingly, although united for a moment like loving brothers in the assassination of the two boys, Clotaire and Childebert declared war against each other. Theudebert, one of Clovis' grandchildren, joined Childebert; the two placed themselves at the head of their leudes, and, as was their wont, pillaged and laid waste the countries that they crossed, and marched against Clotaire.
The three warriors of the King heaped around it bunches of dry seaweed and dead tree branches." "Oh, I can guess what is to come. Oh, Ronan that is horrible. The father is going to burn his son, granddaughters and his son's wife!" "When a sufficient mass of these combustible materials was heaped up all around the hut, Clotaire made a sign.
Five of these kings, Clotaire I., Clotaire II., Dagobert I., Thierry IV. and Childeric III., alone, at different intervals, united under their power all the dominions possessed by Clovis or his successors. The other kings of this line reigned only over special kingdoms, formed by virtue of divers partitions at the death of their general possessor.
It is this: Among other crimes, this Clotaire committed one before which even Clovis might have recoiled. The affair happened in Paris in the year 533, in the old Roman palace inhabited by the Frankish kings. Now listen " "We are listening, learned Symphorien. It is pleasant to the ear to hear the praises of kings." "Accordingly, it was about twenty-five years ago.
Victory, nevertheless, remained with the Franks; but scarcely had a year elapsed when Queen Guntheuque, Clodomir's widow, became the wife of his brother Clotaire, and his two elder sons, Theobald and Gonthaire, fell beneath their uncle's hunting-knife." Even in the coarsest and harshest ages the soul of man does not completely lose its instincts of justice and humanity.
King Clotaire headed the pursuers. "'Come, madam! shrieked Imnachair seizing the young woman by the arm. "'No! she answered resolutely. "'If you are determined to wait for Clotaire, I must leave you! cried Imnachair. 'Adieu, madam! saying which he ran to the boat.
The rhetorician straightened himself up and proceeded to the proof. "I'm at it," he said. "But first of all, brothers, answer me this question: Under whose royal claws did this beautiful land of Auvergne fall?" "Under the claws of Clotaire, the last and worthy son of King Clovis. Having married the widow of his second nephew Theobald, Clotaire now owns Auvergne by double right.
Childebert pushed the child off from his knees and threw him towards Clotaire, who plunged his knife under the boy's arm-pit as he had done with the other, and killed him. The two kings forthwith put all the slaves and governors of the two children to death, and divided their kingdom among them." "That is the manner in which monarchies are founded," observed Ronan.
Clovis had long before gone to paradise upon the recommendation of the bishops and after having partitioned Gaul between his four sons Thierry, Childebert, Clodomir and this Clotaire, who is to-day the sole king of all these conquered provinces. Clodomir died shortly after and left two children. These were taken in charge by their grandmother, the widow of Clovis, old Queen Clotilde.
The lands that King Clotaire restores to us in the form of a gift have been violently conquered more than two centuries ago by tribes of barbarians, they were subsequently invaded by the Burgunds, and finally conquered over again by the Franks. Portions of the land are not cultivated; the race that owned them more than two hundred and fifty years ago, before the invasion, has long been extinct.
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