Franks — Minor Figures

7 figures from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.

Clovis

king · first appears Book III · Chap. XIX

• Book III · Chap. XIX · with Fursa “and being there honourably entertained by Clovis, king of the Franks, or by the patrician Ercinwald, he built a monastery in the place called Latineacum”

Ercinwald

patrician · first appears Book III · Chap. XIX

• Book III · Chap. XIX · with Fursa “The same Ercinwald, the patrician, took his body, and kept it in the porch of a church he was building in his town of Perrona, till the church itself should be dedicated.”

Caroloman

king · first appears Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2

• Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2 · parent: Charles “Charles, king of the Franks, died; and his sons, Caroloman and Pippin, reigned in his stead.”
• Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2 · siblings with Pippin “Charles, king of the Franks, died; and his sons, Caroloman and Pippin, reigned in his stead.”

Charles

king · first appears Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2

• Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2 · child: Caroloman “Charles, king of the Franks, died; and his sons, Caroloman and Pippin, reigned in his stead.”
• Book V · Chap. XXIV · part 2 · child: Pippin “Charles, king of the Franks, died; and his sons, Caroloman and Pippin, reigned in his stead.”

Godwin

metropolitan bishop · first appears Book V · Chap. VIII

• Book V · Chap. VIII · liege: Bertwald “but he was ordained the next year, on Sunday the 29th of June, by Godwin, metropolitan bishop of Gaul, and was enthroned on Sunday the 31st of August.”

Fara

abbess · first appears Book III · Chap. VIII

• Book III · Chap. VIII · with Earcongota “His daughter Earcongota, as became the offspring of such a parent, was a most virtuous virgin, serving God in a monastery in the country of the Franks, built by a most noble abbess, named Fara, at a place called In Brige”

Liudhard

bishop · first appears Book I · Chap. XXV

• Book I · Chap. XXV · with Bertha “whom he had received from her parents, upon condition that she should be permitted to preserve inviolate the rites of her religion with the Bishop Liudhard, who was sent with her to support her in the faith”

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Extracted from the original text of Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England. Made with Rho MD.