Clovis IV
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Clovis IV (c. 677–694/695) was the
king of the Franks from 690 or 691 until his death. If the brief reign of Clovis III (675) is ignored as a usurpation, then Clovis IV may be numbered Clovis III.[1]
A member of the
Pippin of Herstal, the mayor of the palace of Austrasia, and reigned four years.[7]
Clovis was a minor at his accession, and real power was in Pippin's hands.
Nine of Clovis's
comes palatii of Chilperic II, also began his career at the court of Clovis.[11]
In 692, Clovis confirmed for the
Abbey of Saint-Denis the right to collect certain tolls in Marseille, a right which it had been granted by Dagobert I.[12][13] He also granted to the Abbey of Saint-Médard the nearby house that had been the primary residence of the former mayor of the palace, Ebroin, in Soissons.[14]
The anonymous continuator of the Chronicle of Fredegar devotes two sentences to Clovis IV: "King Theuderic died ... and his little son Clovis was chosen to succeed him as king. But it was not long before King Clovis fell ill and died, having reigned four years."[15] He died in either 694[2] or 695.[5] He was succeeded by his brother, Childebert III. Clovis does not appear to have made much of an impression on his contemporaries; his brother was more highly regarded.[5]
References
- ^ Grierson & Blackburn (2007), p. 84n.
- ^ a b Wood 1994, p. 357.
- ^ a b McConville 2018, p. 362.
- ^ Vergauteren 1928, p. 96.
- ^ a b c Wood 1994, p. 256.
- ^ Geary 1988, p. 233.
- ^ Wood 1994, p. 258.
- ^ a b Wood 1994, pp. 261–62.
- ^ Geary 1988, p. 181.
- ^ Gerberding 1987, p. 151.
- ^ Wood 1994, p. 269.
- ^ Wood 1994, p. 205.
- ^ Gerberding 1987, p. 64.
- ^ Gerberding 1987, p. 153.
- ^ Wallace-Hadrill 1960, p. 85.
Sources
- Geary, Patrick J. (1988). Before France and Germany: The Creation and Transformation of the Merovingian World. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Gerberding, Richard A. (1987). The Rise of the Carolingians and the Liber Historiae Francorum. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Grierson, Philip; Blackburn, Mark (2007). Medieval European Coinage, Volume 1: The Early Middle Ages (5th–10th Centuries). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- McConville, Julia (2018). "Clovis III". In Nicholson, Oliver (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity. Oxford University Press.
- Vergauteren, F. (1928). "Étude critique d'un diplôme attribué à Chilpéric I". Revue belge de Philologie et d'Histoire. 7 (1): 83–112. .
- Wallace-Hadrill, J. M., ed. (1960). The Fourth Book of the Chronicle of Fredegar with its Continuations. Thomas Nelson and Sons.
- Wood, Ian N. (1994). The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450–751. Harlow: Longman.
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