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CLoion, or Clodion, according to Sidonius, Apollinaris, and Gre∣gory of Tours, succeeded his Fa∣ther Pharamond in the Regall estate in the yeare 432. of our Redemption. He was surnamed the Hairy, because hee commanded the French men to weare
long haire in token of Liberty, to the end they might be knowne and distin∣guished from Romans: or (as some Mo∣derne Writers will have it) to this end, that none should weare long haire, but those of the Royall blood. In the be∣ginning of his Reigne, perceiving the Romans to bee employed altogether a∣gainst the Vandals in Africke, and a no∣table dissention betweene Aetius and Boniface, went from his Castle of Dif∣pargun••, and fastened upon Cambray, and all that Countrey which lyes be∣tweene the Rivers of Escaut and the Somme, where to this day are the Ci∣ties of Monts, Valenciennes, Cambray, and the Forrest heretofore nominated* 1.1 Carbonaire. Afterwards having made a great discomfiture of the Romans, who made head against him, hee came as farre as the Bourough of St. Helens, which is in the Land of Artois. He al∣so subjugated those of Thuringia, the Saxons, and other populations of Al∣maine, as Funecius is of opinion. O∣thers
also adde, that the City of May∣ence was by him taken in: The Hunni∣balt of Trithemius holds, that he divided his Kingdome into two parts, nomi∣nating that upon the Coast of the Rhine Austrasie, and the part upon the West, Neustria or Westria.
The Chronicles of Flanders say, that he led his Army against those of Thero∣venne, otherwise called Morinians, whom he made subjects: they percei∣ving their Auxiliars the Cinabres and Ruthenians, and their Captaine Gene∣rall Gondmar overthrowne, who had a Daughter whom this Clodion caused to be married to a Nephew of his who was called Flandebert, from whom they will have the Countrey of Flanders to derive its first Nomination, although it is more evident that it was not so cal∣led before the time of Charlemaigne. He deceased in the 20. yeare of his Reigne, Anno Domini 450, according to Ado and Aymoinus, leaving (as Jaques Meier and Richard of Wassebourgh doe relate)
Ranchaine, or Ranachaire and Alberic (alias) Auberon, his sonnes. Wearing of long haire (as was said) was ordained by this King to bee the Ornament of Princes, whereby Clodamire slaine in Battaile, was knowne from the vulgar Souldiers, and shaving off the Haire was a Ceremony used at degrading of Kings; and Queene Clotilde suffered her Sonnes Heads to be cut off, rather than their Haire, preferring honour to life, and accounting the disgrace which her Children should receive by shaving, ma∣king them incapable of the Royall dig∣nity, worse than death; for Life, after the decease of honour, is but a conti∣nuall lingring death. Hippone was now besieged by Genserick, King of the Van∣dals.
Saint Augustine being 76. yeeres old, having seene and suffered in the miseries of the Church, then generally afflicted by the Barbarians, wearied with being a Spectator of those Trage∣dies, withdrew to Heaven, and dyed,
leaving the Christian World a mourner for his departure.
••ale∣•• ••st in ••nge.