Author's Notes

AUDOFLEDA
Sister of Clovis, queen of Theodoric the Great.  Her birth date is unrecorded, and little of her history is preserved, but her position as the sister and then wife of two of the most remembered kings in European history begs a memorable character.  She is somewhat minor in this work, but has indelible cameo appearances, and she is also the first of three matrilineal subjects of another manuscript currently in progress.

BONONIA
Today, the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in northern France.  Bononia in Latin meant “good city”.  The settlement and its port, serving as a trade connection to Britain, dates to at least the first century CE; it was called by this name by the fourth.  Bononia is closest to the coast of Chararic’s three cities, on the Channel southeast of London and Canterbury.


As always, Author's Notes excerpts are excerpted from the MS, which means they are written "in-universe."  These posts should not be taken as historical resources.