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Saint Clotilde (475–545) also known as Clothilde Clotilda Clotild Rotilde etc. (Latin Chrodechildis Chlodechildis from Frankish *Hrōþihildi or perhaps *Hlōdihildi both famous in battle) was the second wife of the Frankish king Clovis I and a princess of the kingdom of Burgundy. Venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church she was instrumental to her husband’s famous conversion to Christianity and in her later years was known for her almsgiving and penitential works of mercy.

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