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NAMPHAMO

NANTHARIUS II.

Bidonius Apollinaris, who sent him the works ofVarro and the Chronicle of Eusebius. He mayhave been the Namatius addressed by Ruricius.(Sidon. lib. viii. ep. 6 and note , in Pat. Lat.lviii. 593; Ceill. x. 393; Tillem. xvi. 269, 270.)[Namatius (1).] [C. H.]

NAMPHAMO (or Namphanio, Mart. Pom.Jul. 4). He with his companions, Lucitas, Myg-don or Miggin, and Samae or Saname, wereapparently the first martyrs who suffered inAfrica, and therefore, according to Aubd, sufferedunder the proconsul Saturninus, A.D. 180, who,as Tertullian states, first attacked the Christians.Namphamo enjoyed the local title of archi-martyr. He is only known to us by the corre-spondence between Maximus of Madaura and St.Augustine (cf. August. Opp. t. ii., Epp. 16 and17). From this correspondence we concludethat these martyrs were of Punic blood and notRoman colonists. Augustine expounds the nameNamphamo as a Punic one. See ScillitanMartyrs for other authorities. [G. T. S.]

NAMPULUS, Numidian bishop addressedby Cyp. Ep. 62, and in synodical letter (Ep. 70)of Si/n. Carth. de Bap. i. The name is tho-roughly African, as evinced by inscriptions.

[E. W. B.]

NANNANUS, mentioned by Giraldus Cam-brensis as an ancient saint in Connaught, whoin a plague of fleas expelled the insects fromthe locality “ per excommunicationem et impre-cationem suam.” (Girald. Camb. Gemma Eccle -siastica , distinct, i. cap. 53, Topographia Hibernica,dist. ii. cap. 31 in Works , ii. 160, v. 119, ed.Dimock, 1867.) [J. G.]

NANNIDIUS or NANNIUS. [Nennius.]

NANNYD LAMDERE, Irish saint, “virsanctus et virtutibus plenus,” A.D. 540.(Ussher, Brit. Eccl. Ant. c. 18, wks. vi. 473,590.) [Ninnidh (l).] [J. G.]

NANTECHILDIS (Nandechildis, Nan-Tiiildis, Nantildis), wife of Dagobert I. andmother of Clovis II., kings of the Franks.Notices of her occur in Fredegarius (Pat. Lat.lxxi.) and in the following authorities containedin Bouquet, t. iii., Aimoin, Chron. S. Demis,Chron. Marcianense , Hermaunus Contractus,Hucbald’s Life of St. Bictrude. She was marriedto Dagobert at Paris in 628, the year he becamesole king of the Franks, Dagobert desertingqueen Gomatrudis in the villa Romiliacum(Reuilly, now a suburb of Paris) where he hadmarried her, and taking Nantechildis, i( unara expuellis de ministerio,” as Fredegar(p. 635 wheresee note) describes her, or “ quandam puellam amonasterio raptam,” as Aimoin puts it after acorrupt reading (Bouq. 127 D and note). Aimoinhere says Dagobert forsook Gomatrudis on ac-count of her sterility. Fredegar (637) blamesDagobert’s luxuriousness in having three queens,Nantechildis, Wlfegundis, Berchildis, besidesnumerous concubines. In 630 her brotherLandegiselus died and was buried at St. Denys’s[Chr. S. Den., Bouq. 292 d). In 633, Dagobert’s12th year, she became the mother of Clovis II.(Fred. 648). She is mentioned in a diploma of

Dagobert I. in 633 (Breq. num. 261). In 637she stood sponsor for Eusebia [Eusebia (7)]daughter of duke Adalbald and Rictrude (Chron.Marcianense and Hucbald’s Life of Bictrude,Bouq. 523 b, 538 b). Early in 638 Nante-childis and her son Clovis were committed byDagobert, shortly before his death, to theguardianship of his minister Aega or Aeganes(Kred. 651; Aimoin, Bou. 134 c; Chr. S. Den.,Bou. 298 e). At the accession of Clovis II. to thethrone of Neustria and Burgundy the govern-ment was in the hands of Nantechildis in con-junction with Aega as mayor of the palace(Fred. 651; Aimoin, Chr. S. Den., Herm., inBouq. 135 D, 301 B, 328 c). The Chr. S. Den.makes Nantechildis then residing at Venete(Vannes). In 638 she and Clovis received atCompi&gne the Austrasian nobility sent fromMetz by king Sigebert, headed by Chunibertarchbishop of Cologne and the Austrasianmayor Pippin, when by the advice of Aega thetreasure of Dagobert there stored was dividedequally between the two brothers Sigebert andClovis, Nantechildis having reserved for herone-third of what was amassed by Dagobertafter his marriage with her (Fred. 655 ; Aimoinand Chr. S. Den., Bouq. 136 A B, 301 C). In638 she subscribed a diploma of Clovis II. tothe monastery of St. Maur-des-Fosses (Bouq. iv.634 A ; Brequigny, Diplomata , ed. Pardessus,vol. ii. num. 291). In 640, after Aega’s death,she had his son-in-law Ermenfred [ErmenFRE-DUS (1)] heavily mulcted for the murder ofcount Aenulph (Fred. 654). The same year,according to Brequigny’s date, she subscribed apraeceptum of Clovis II. to the monastery of St.Denys (Breq. num. 294; Bouq. iv. 638 A un-dated). Her name occurs in a spurious charterof Blidegisillus assigned to 640 (Breq. num.293). In 641 she accompanied Clovis fromOrleans to f *e capital of Burgundy (so thepassage of Aimoin reads in Bouquet, “Aure-lianis caput regni Burgundiae petiit,” andFredeg. 658 similarly), where she received thebishops and nobility of that kingdom, who cameto make their submission to her son, withmarked consideration, appointing Flaucatus, towhom she gave her niece Ragneberta in mar-riage, mayor of the palace for Burgundy(Aimoin and Chr. S. Den., Bouq. 136 e, 301 e).The Chr. S. Den. here cited places the event atOrleans. She died in 641 (Fred. 659), afterbequeathing many rich legacies to variouschurches, including that of St. Denys (Chr. S.Den., Bouq. 302 A), where she was interred withDagobert. (Aimoin and Chr. S. Den., Bouq.137 B, 302 a; Diploma of Landeric, Breq. num.320; Diploma of Clovis II., Breq. num. 322, andPat. Lat. lxxi. 1198 A.) [C. H.]

NANTHARIUS (1) I., seventh abbat ofSt. Bertin, cir. 744-754. In this monasteryduring his rule, Childeric III., the last of theMerovingian kings, was immured, A.D. 752,and died the same year (Laplane, Les Abbes deSaint-Bertin, i. 29 ; Gall. Chr. iii. 487). Fora deed of gift to the monastery during hisabbacy and dated July 25, 745, see Pat. Latcxxxvi. 1187. [S. A. B.]

NANTHARIUS (2) II., eleventh abbat ofSt. Bertin, cir. 804-820. In 808 or 809 the