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Subject: Re: Fw: CLOVIS THE RIPARIAN
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 20:55:57 -0600
I tapped into this thread late, but as an afterword here is what Settipani
has to say on the subject, loosely translated:
[Prehistoire des Capetiens, p51] discussing Bassina wife of Childeric: We
don't know her origins: J Depoin wishes to make her, quite gratuitously, a
Rhenish princess. [footnote 48:] His argument is as follows: Clovis
addresses Sigebert of Cologne as parens meus. Now, according to Depoin,
parens has the principal meaning "uncle" or "cousin german" thus, one should
make Basina, Clovis' mother, a sister of Sigebert. We would also explain
thereby the occurrence of the name Sigebert in Clovis' posterity. Further,
Sigebert was for Depoin the son of a Clodovech, hence the origin of the
Merovingian name. Apart from the fact that the filiation given by Depoin is
inexact (see second part [CJB: publication of which is still EAGERLY awaited
by yours truly....]) the use of the term parens is really too varied [see
Chaume, who shows it used in the sense of uncle, great-uncle, gt-gt-gt uncle,
cousin german, or to the third degree etc etc] for one to be able to draw
precise conclusions. Further, starting with the relationship beteen Clovis
and Sigbert, Munderic, undoubtedly grandson of the latter, qualifies
Theodoric son of Clovis as "parens" which shows well the semantic extension
of the term.
Chris
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