Bathilde

See also: Bathylle

Holy Bathilde , or Batilde , Bathylle , or Beaudour , born towards 626 and dead the January 30th 680, with Chelles, is a queen of the Franc S and wife of Clovis II.

Queen of the Francs

She would be the girl of Sisoigne, prince of Ascagnie, and would have been reduced in slavery by a Anglo-Saxon king, or Danish pirates according to certain sources. In 642, Erchinoald (or modern French Archambaut), Mayor of the palate, buys it with York and brings it in the frank kingdom. It would have wished to marry it, but this one does not want it formless and into Clovis II, king of Neustrie and Burgundy (born in 632, and thus its six year old junior), who marries it in 649. She accepts this marriage only once the agreement of her father obtained. Other historians think that Archambaut presented it to the young king (or rather to his Nanchtilde mother) to preserve his political role.

Older than her husband, it would have largely influenced it so that he carries out the kingdom of a firm hand, which led it to sanction hard its two younger sons which had rebelled against him. According to a legend, appeared five centuries, said “irritated afterwards by Jumièges” (told by Pierre de Ronsard), they abandoned in a boat on the Seine, and were collected with the Abbaye of Jumièges. Clovis and Bathilde would have been present at the time of their entry at the abbey. This history is contradicted by the facts and the chronology.

It gave him inter alia children Clotaire III, king de Neustrie and of Burgundy, Childéric II, king of Austrasie, and Thierry III which succeeds Clotaire III.

Regency

With died of her husband, in 657, she exerts the Régence with the profit of only Clotaire, to avoid dismembering the kingdom. But it must face the mayor of the palate Ébroïn, rival of Leger saint of Autun, and the sling of large of Austrasie which wants their own sovereign. She agrees to let Childéric go up on the throne of Austrasie.

Bathilde takes care of the follow-up of the rules in the clergy, and under the councils of Ouen saint of Rouen, the holy bishop Eloi de Noyon and the Landry bishop of Paris the Church supports while concerned with the monasteries and by melting the new ones. She avoids the conflicts, takes care of the application of justice, and sends missionaries in Germany.

The tradition allots to him the prohibition of the markets of slaves on its grounds, causing the disappearance of the Esclavage in the frank kingdoms: if it seems certain that the end of the sales of slaves goes back to the 7th century for the Francs, it is not certain that they ended of alive sound. One allots also the abolition to him of the personal tax on the inhabitants of Gallic origin, the Capitation.

It founds various convents:

  • the abbey of Corbie,
  • the abbey of Chelles,
  • the abbey of Palaiseau.

Moniale

Finally, in 664, it is forced to withdraw itself in the monastery of Chelles, one as of its foundations, with the Monastère of Corbie. It also equipped with other monasteries: Jumièges, Saint-Wandrille, etc It dies, with Chelles, the January 30th 680.

It is canonized by the pope Nicolas I {{er}} at the 9th century, and according to Mgr Paul Guerin “ It died out… in the service of God, on January 30th of year 680. The small town of Chelles has happiness to still have the relics of Holy Bathilde . ”

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Sources

  • Paule Lejeune. queens of France . Paris: ED. Vernal and P. Lebaud, 1989, ISBN 2-86594-042-X, p. 44

  • Régine Pernoud. Saints with the Middle Ages . Paris: Plon bookstore, 1984. ISBN 2-259-01186-1

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