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 | | In 613, Clotaire II was proclaimed master of Neustria, Austrasia, and Burgundy and thus Merovingian King. |
 | | Although Clotaire's mother, St. Clothilda, took the late King Clodomir's three young sons under her care, Clotaire and Childebert withdrew the children by means of a ruse and slew the two older ones; however the third, Clodoald, escaped and entered a cloister, where he became Saint Cloud. |
 | | Clotaire, closely pursued by Childebert, who had been joined by Theodebert, son of Thierry I, took refuge in the forest of Brotonne, in Normandy, where he feared that he and his army would be exterminated by the superior forces of his adversaries. |
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