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| LDS Confirmation: (9GBK-H7) |
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| Mrs. Childeric Basina, Queen of Franks (Wife) b. Bet 438 and 440 in THURINGIA, GERMANY
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 Clovis I (Chlodovech) Merovingian, King of Frank b. 465 in RHEIMS, MARNE, LOIRE, ALANTIQUE, FRANCE
 Lantraldis (Lanthilde), Princess of Franks
- Alboflede 'Blanchefleur', Princess of Franks
- Andelfieda (Audeflede), Princess of Franks
- Duke of Franks Clodius
- Prince of Franks Guntran
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Individual:
HISTORY OF FRANCE
France has one of the most complete records of human history in all of Europe.
Archaeological excavations have uncovered artifacts more than 100,000 years old,
which with the long ensuing record indicate continuous settlement of the region
from Paleolithic times.
About 1200 BC the Gauls, a predominantly Celtic people, began a southward and
westward migration from the Rhine valley into what is now France and northern
Italy. In about 600 BC Ionian Greeks established a trading colony at Massilia
(now Marseille), the best known of a number of Ionian settlements that
flourished for centuries in what in now southern France. The Romans began their
conquest of Gaul in 121 BC, which Juluis Caesar completed from 58 to 50 BC. Gaul
became thoroughly Romanized during its years of Roman domination.
The decline of Rome left Gaul open to Germanic invasion. By the late 5th century
AD the Salian Franks occupied the area north of the Loire River, the Visigoths
held Aquitaine and Provence, and the Burgundians dominated the Rhone Valley. It
was the Salian Franks who, under the leadership of the Merovingians, gained
hegemony over most of Gaul during the 6th century. By the 8th century, power had
passed to the Carolingians, the greatest of whom was Charlemagne (Charles I). In
the early 9th century. Charlemagne's empire encompassed most of western Europe,
but his death brought its division. After 843 the westermost lands of
Charlemagne's empire became known as Francia Occidentalis. When the last
Carolingian King died in 987, Hugh Capet was elected King of Francia
Occidentalis. Though initially weak and ineffectual, the Capetain Dynasty lasted
until 1328, by which time the royal domains included most o fmodern France
except Flanders, Brittany, Burgundy, and Aquitaine.
The throne passed to Philip VI of Valois in 1328, precipitating the struggle
with England known as the Hundred Years's War (1337-1453). At its conclusion the
Valois were firmly established as France's ruling family, and the English had
lost all their French holdings except Calais. By the end of the 15th century
both Burgundy and Brittany were in Valois hands, and France approximated its
modern boundaries.
During the 16th century, Protestantism spread across France and led to a number
of religious and civil wars. The wars between Protestants (Huguenots) and Roman
Catholics culminated in the massacre of some 3,000 Huguenots in Paris on the eve
of St. Bartholemew's Day in 1572. In the turmoil that followed, Henry IV of
Navarre, a Protestant of the House of Bourbon, secured the throne but ultimately
embraced, Catholicism to ensure peace. His Edict of Nantes (1598) granted
substantial religious toleration to the Huguenots.
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