Editing Clotilde (section)

=== Post-marriage and death ===
According to Kurth Godefriod in ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', an epic about the Franks states that Clotilde incited her son [[Chlodomer]] to start a war with his cousin, [[Sigismund of Burgundy]], in order to avenge the death of her parents. Godefroid doubts the story is true, considers it a defamation against Clotilde, and states that she arranged a truce between Clovis and Gondebad, Sigismund's father.<ref name="cathencyclopedia" /> Butler agrees, stating that sources such as the writings of Gregory of Tours have been disproven, which has "vindicated the queen from charges of ferocity and vindictiveness, little in keeping with her saintly character".{{Sfn|Butler|1995|p=462}}{{Efn|Dunbar takes the opposite view (see pp. 192-`93), although she states that Clotilde led a virtuous life in her later years.}} According to Butler, Chlodomer captured and killed Sigismund, as well as his wife and children, but Chlodomer was killed by Sigismund's brother. Clotilde adopted her son's three young boys, but was induced to send the children to her other sons, who had the two oldest killed. The youngest boy, Clodoald, was saved and later became a monk in Paris, at the monastery in [[Nogent-sur-Marne]], which was later renamed in his honour.{{Sfn|Butler|1995|p=462}} According to Dunbar, the husband of Clotilde's daughter at one point sent a blood-stained veil to her brothers; her brother Childebert retaliated against him, pillaging his towns, and brought his sister away from her husband, but she died on the way to Paris.{{Sfn|Dunbar|1904|p=193}}

After the death of Clovis and her grandchildren, Clotilde left Paris and moved to [[Tours]], where spent most of her time near the tomb of [[Martin of Tours|Saint Martin of Tours]] and became closely associated with the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tours|diocese of Tours]];{{Sfn|McNamara|Halborg|Whatley|1992|p=40}}{{Sfn|Butler|1995|p=462}} according to Dunbar she and Clovis had a devotion to Saint Martin.{{Sfn|Dunbar|1904|p=193}} As Farmer reports, "Thenceforward she led a devout life".<ref name="farmer" /> According to Farmer, she became "totally detached from politics and power-struggles except through prayer".<ref name="farmer" /> Dunbar states that she "prayed and fasted and wept, and gave all she had to the poor".{{Sfn|Dunbar|1904|p=193}} 

Farmer states that Clotilde continued to have a political role in "the violent Merovingian world", mostly through her sons.<ref name="farmer" /> Gregory of Tours wrote that her prayers delayed a war between her two surviving sons; as Butler put it, "The very next day, as the armies were about to engage, there arose a tempest that all military operations had to be abandoned".{{Sfn|Butler|1995|p=462}} A month later, Clotilde died in Tours on 3 June 545 and was buried at the feet of St. Genevieve and beside Clovis and her older children, at the Basilica of the Holy Apostles. She was a widow for 34 years.<ref name="cathencyclopedia" />{{Sfn|Butler|1995|p=462}}{{Sfn|Dunbar|1904|p=193}} Her daughter died at about the same time.<ref name="farmer" />

[[File:Clotilde partageant le royaume entre ses fils.jpg|thumb|right|Clotilde and her sons, ''Grandes Chroniques de Saint-Denis'']]