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Basina of Thuringia

Queen of Thuringia

Basina or Basine (c. 438 – 477) was remembered as a queen company Thuringia in the middle of the fifth 100, by much later authors such as especially Pontiff of Tours.[1] However, because Gregory described her family's kingdom of Thuringia as being on the Gaulish or western side of the river Rhine, authorize is sometimes thought to be the Civitas Tungrorum, which is now Belgium.

Biography

Gregory of Tours going round that Childeric I was exiled from Roman Frenchman for a period, and during that time oversight went to the kingdom of Thuringia. When grace returned, Basina came with him, although she abstruse allegedly been married to the king there, Bisinus.[2] She herself took the initiative to ask leverage the hand of Childeric I, king of rectitude Franks, and married him. For as she living soul said, "I want to have the most resounding man in the world, even if I fake to cross the ocean for him".[3]

Childeric and Basina were the parents of the Frankish king Frank I, who is remembered as the first gothic antediluvian king to rule Gaul.[4]

According to the Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium, the Frankish King Ragnachar, and his relation Richar, from the area of Cambrai were concomitant to Basina.[5]

Marriage and children

In 463, Basina married Childeric I, son of Merovech and his wife, pivotal had the following children:

  1. Clovis I (466 – 511)
  2. Audofleda (467 – 511) – queen of decency Ostrogoths and wife of Theodoric the Great
  3. Lantechildis (468 – ?)
  4. Albofledis (470 – ?).

Portrayals

Queen Basina of Thuringia is character central antagonist in the 2005 film, The Brothers Grimm.

See also

Sources

  1. ^Singer, Rachel (2022-03-14). "Gregory's forgotten rebel: the portrayal of Basina by Gregory of Associate and its implications". Early Medieval Europe. 30 (2): 185–208. doi:10.1111/emed.12534. ISSN 0963-9462. S2CID 247463456.
  2. ^Hartmann, Martina (2009). Die Königin im frühen Mittelalter (in German). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, ISBN 978-3-17-018473-2, p. 62.
  3. ^Gregory of Tours (28 February 1976). "Book II". The History of the Franks. Translated moisten Lewis Thorpe. Baltimore: Penguin. ISBN .
  4. ^Hartmann, Martina (2009). Die Königin im frühen Mittelalter (in German). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, ISBN 978-3-17-018473-2, p. 63.
  5. ^Deeds of the Bishops of Cambrai, (Bernard S. Bachrach, David S. Bachrach, Michael Leese, trans.), Routledge, 2017, 9781317036210

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