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Clotilde

Saint Clotilde (475 - 545 in Tours), also spelled as Clotild, Clothilde, or Chlothilde, was the daughter of Burgundian king Chilperic, the niece of the Roman general Gundobad[?], and the wife of Clovis I. She contributed to her husband's conversion to Roman christianity.

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