Balthild

Bathilde, also Balthild Soon Hilda Bathildis, (c. 630 in England; † January 30 probably 680 at the Abbey of Chelles ) was the wife of the Frankish Merovingian King Clovis II of Neustria.

Life

649 married King Clovis II Balthilde. Her rise did not make her proud, she was devoted to caring arms. She turned against slavery among Christians. As a queen she enacted laws to prevent the enslavement of prisoners of war who had previously been accepted as a tribal custom. From their freed slaves were irrespective of the origin taught in monasteries or used as a helper on goods. She founded the nunnery Chelles (664) in Paris and the abbey of Corbie ( 657/661 ) for monks. In other abbeys they introduced the monastic rule of Luxeuil.

End 657 Clovis II died and Bathilde served with the house Meier Erchinoald and from 658 up to 664 Ebroin as regent for Clotaire III. in Neustria. In the year 657/658 Chlothar III gave. and Bathilde the monastery " in civitatis Trecassinæ "

On the Assassination of the Bishop Aunemund / Annemundas of Lyon by Ebroins soldiers around 658 Bathilde was probably not involved. Except for a bloody suppressed rebellion of the Burgundian opposition was its rule peacefully.

After the coup had failed Grimoalds in Austrasia, she sat her son 662 Childeric II as King of Austrasia one.

To 664 she was banished to an intrigue Ebroins and nobility and retired after the takeover of government business through their adult sons to the monastery Chelles back. There she is the lowest rank who want to dress and have excelled in the humility and charity. Bathilde died on January 30, probably in the year 680 in Chelles Abbey and was buried there in the église Sainte- Croix.

833 was carried out a survey of their bones. Pope Nicholas I. they have consecrated in the year 860.

Your Catholic feast day is January 30. It is regarded as the patron saint of the infirm, the sick, children and widows. In art she is shown with model church and crown, as Almosengeberin or Jacob's ladder, climb down on the Angels and their rich a child.

Children

Swell

  • Vita Sanctae Balthildis, MGH SS rer. Merov. II, pp. 483-485.
  • Liber Historiæ Francorum 43, MGH SS rer Merov II, p 315
  • Fredegar ( Continuator ), 1, MGH SS rer Merov II, p 169
  • Venerable Bede Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum V.
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