Cloderic OF COLOGNE

See also

Cloderic OF COLOGNE's father: Sigebert OF COLOGNE ( -509)

Cloderic OF COLOGNE ( -509)

Name:	Cloderic OF COLOGNE ¹
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	"the Parricide"
Father:	Sigebert OF COLOGNE ( -509)
Mother:	-

Individual Events and Attributes

Occupation		King of Cologne
Death	0509

Marriage

Spouse	(unknown)
Children	Munderic OF VITRY-EN-PERTHOIS ( - )
	Dode (bef509- )

Individual Note

Chlodoric (or Chloderic) the Patricide (died c. 509) murdered his own father, Sigobert the Lame, in order to take his kingdom. Chlodoric acted upon the instigation of Clovis I a rival king of the Salian Franks. After Sigobert's death Clovis then accused Chlodoric of the murder and had him killed in his turn for the crime. In this way Clovis became king of Sigobert's and Chlodoric's people.

Gregory of Tours suggests that Chlodoric was murdered in the same campaign that also killed the Frankish King Chararic. Before, Clovis had killed King Ragnachar and his brothers. After all these murders Gregory tells us that Clovis lamented that he had no family left anymore, implying that amongst his own casualties were close relatives.

SOURCE:

Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks. 2 vol. trans. O. M. Dalton. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967.²

Sources

¹	Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 178, 190-4.

²	"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloderic.