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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia in the Alexander Palace, 1915

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The four romanov Daughters posing for a formal in 1914

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→ Rival Queens: Fredegonde and Brunehilde, requested by @goldentailedmermaids

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, Nicky.  + “I kiss every dear spot over and over again, and hold you tight in my arms. Ever, Nicky mine, your very, very own wify –Sunny“

(( request by anon: nicholas ii & alexandra feodorovna’s love letters ))

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MEROVINGIAN REGINAE | Basina I Regina (c. 5th century) 

Main consort and probably chief wife of Childerich I Rex, to whom she bore at least one son, Chlodovech I Rex (aka Clovis) and probably three daughters, Audofleda Regina, Albofledis Regina and Lantechildis Regina. Through her daughter Audofleda, she was also the maternal grandmother of Amalasuntha of the Ostrogoths.

Probably one of the most difficult figure of the period to study on, Basina I has become through the sources quite of a legendary myth. According to Gregorius of Tours, around 450, Childerich has been forced to go in exile due to his dissolute behavior, as his people was accusing him of humiliating the daughters of the chiefs. He then retreated in the kingdom of the Thuringians, where he stayed under the protection of King Basinus or Bisinus, and his wife, Basina.

“Childericus vero, cum esset nimia in luxoria dissolutus et regnaret super Francorum gentem, coepit filias eorum stuprose detrahere. Illique ob hoc indignantes, de regnum eum eieciunt. Conperto autem, quod eum etiam interficere vellent, Thoringiam petiit […]. Abiens ergo in Thoringiam, apud regem Bysinum uxoremque eius Basinam latuit.

Childeric, King of the Franks, whose private life was one long debauch, began to seduce the daughters of his subjects. They were so incensed about this that they forced him to give up his throne. He discovered that they intended to assassinate him and he fled to Thuringia. […] Childeric then set out for Thuringia and took refuge with King Bisinus and his wife Basina.”

DLH, II, 12. De Childerico rege et Egidio

Although it is difficult to determine what was the reality from the legend, always according to Gregorius of Tours, after eight years in exile, Childerich successfully took back his power as Frankish leader. Seeing this, Basina then left the Thuringians and her previous husband and joined him, as she thought Childerich to be a better match for her. 

“His ergo regnantibus, simul Basina illa, quam supra memoravimus, relicto viro suo, ad Childericum venit. Qui cum sollicite interrogaret, qua de causa ad eum de tanta regione venisset, respondisse fertur: ‘Novi’, inquid, 'utilitatem tuam, quod sis valde strinuus, ideoque veni, ut habitem tecum. Nam noveris, si in transmarinis partibus aliquem cognovissem utiliorem tibi, expetissem utique cohabitationem eius’. At ille gaudens eam sibi in coniugio copulavit.

Now that Bisinus and Childeric were both kings, Queen Basina, about whom I have told you, deserted her husband and joined Childeric. He questioned her closely as to why she had come from far away to be with him, and she is said to have answered: ‘I know that you are a strong man and I recognize ability when I see it. I have therefore come to live with you. You can be sure that if I knew anyone else, even far across the sea, who was more capable than you, I should have sought him out and gone to live with him instead.’ This pleased Childeric very much and he married her.”

DLH, II, 12. De Childerico rege et Egidio

Based on this strange course of events, a common hypothesis established by scholars has statued that Basina was in fact not probably the wife of Basinus or Bisinus, due to the great ressemblance on their given names, but rather a member of the thuringian royal family, perhaps the daughter of an unknown thuringian king. 

Indeed, as Gregorius of Tours is actually the first to speak about her, he may also have been the first to create her and designate her as the queen of the Thuringians. Therefore, Basina’s arrival in Gauls should be considered as an alliance between Thuringians and Franks, rather than a real flight of a loving woman. However, due to that story of elopement, several scholars have severly considered her figure, seeing her as a whore, and the mark of the debauchery of the Merovingian dynasty, especially in comparison with the second thuringian princess of the dynasty, the saint Radegund Regina.

Anyway, after her marriage to Childerich, Gregorius of Tours became completely silent on her fate. As the wife of Childerich, she probably lived near Turnaco (Tournai), which was at that moment the capital city of his regnum in the former Belgica Secunda. C. 465/466, she gave birth to her only known son, Chlodovech, who later succeed to his father.

“Quae concipiens, peperit filium vocavitque nomen eius Chlodovechum. Hic fuit magnus et pugnatur egregius.

She became pregnant and bore a son whom she called Clovis. He was a great man and became a famous soldier.”

DLH, II, 12. De Childerico rege et Egidio

Even if we ignore if she really gave birth to the three sisters of Chlodovech or not, as the main consort of Childerich, she probably may have raised them altogether. Thereby, because at least Lantechildis was known as an arian before Chlodovech’s baptism, some scholars think that it could come from Basina, who was perhaps an arian herself. 

Later interpretations of her figure, especially in the Liber Historiae Francorum, have added some legendary features to her character, notably the capacity to be a seerer. Indeed, according to it, during her wedding night, Basina revealed to Childerich by interpreting visions the destiny of their descendants, and the way the dynasty would finally collapse. Like Aslaug or Melusine, she is then seen as a part of mythological germanic and nordic material passed on our remaining sources of the early middle ages period.

Her burial and date of death are not known, however during the discover of Childerich’s grave in 1653 and its study by Jean Jacob Chifflet, the presence of a smaller skull and some female furniture suggested that there might had have been a female grave, and so perhaps Basina’s tomb. Alas, as the material has dissapeared through time, we can only estimate it now based on Chifflet’s description and engravings.

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WOMEN IN HISTORY MONTH (insp) | Week 2: Favorite Regent Mothers

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Meanings of the names of the last Russian imperial family, murdered by bolsheviks in 1918.

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Grand Duchesses- Maria, Olga, Anastasia and Tatiana

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Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia in 1911

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Daughters of the Tsar Nicholas II- Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia

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Maria

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Maria Nikolaevna Romanov (1899-1918)

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Tatiana Nikolaevna Romanov (1897-1918)

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Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia in 1904

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Maria Nikolaevna

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Daughters of the Tsar Nicholas II

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Original link : http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2917010/grand-duchess-marie-nicholaievna-1899-1918 Better quality of this well known photo

Maria Nikolaevna onboard the Standart, june 1908

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