The votaresses of St. Louis had, however, chosen to come much nearer to his name, and by the end of the fifteenth century Louise was in great vogue at the French court; it travelled everywhere with French princesses, came to us with the House of Hanover, and has now a thorough hold of all ranks.
| English. | French. | Italian. | Spanish. |
| Louisa | Louise | Luisa | Luisa |
| Louie | Lisette | Eloïsa | Portuguese. |
| Scotch. | Loulou | Luiza | |
| Leot | Heloise | Luizinha | |
| Alison | Louison | ||
| Alison | |||
| German. | Swedish. | Polish. | Lettish. |
| Ludowicke | Ludovica | Ludvika | Lusche |
| Luise | Lovisa | Ludoisia | Lasche |
| Lova | Lodoiska |
The eldest son of the great Clovis was Hlodmir, or Clodomir, great fame, made more euphonious in German as Ludomir, and furnishing such surnames as Luttmer and Lummers.
All his sons were murdered by their uncles, except one, who was shorn of his long locks to save his life, and was put into a convent, where he became a holy man, was canonized, and his harsh name of Hlodowald, or Clodvald, became the pleasant one of St. Cloud, best known for the sake of the palace near Paris. Another St. Chlodvald, of Metz, is commonly called St. Clou.
One of the uncles who killed the poor boys was Hlodhari, or Chlotachari, famous warrior, a terrible savage, but the last survivor of the brothers, and counted in the Frank history as Chlother, or Clotaire. Others of his race likewise were so baptized, and when the name passed to the Karlingen it was as Lothar. So was called the son of Louis le Debonnaire, whose portion, known at first as Lotharingen, came to be in Latin Lotharingia, and still remains Lorraine. Lothar did not pass away from Germany; one emperor, after the separation, was so called; and it fell into many forms of surnames, in especial into Luther; and when Martin Luther had rendered this almost saintly to his countrymen, they over-hastily explained it by lother, pure; while the Bohemians found a similar word in their own tongue, meaning a swan. Oddly enough, Huss signified a goose, and the saying arose that the Bohemian goose had let fall a quill, which had been picked up by a swan of far more distant flight.
Luther has a few namesakes in his own country on his own account, but, in general, Chloter has died out of Christian nomenclature.
| English. | French. | German. | Spanish. |
| Lothario | Clotaire | Lothar | Clotario |
| Lowther | Lothaire | Luther | Lettish. |
| Italian. | Lutters | ||
| Lotario |
Chlodoswintha, or famous height, was a Frank princess, without namesakes beyond her own race; in fact, the use of this prefix seems to have been exclusively Frank.[[144]]
[144]. Sismondi, Histoire des François, Littérature du Midi de l'Europe; Friedrich Pott; Michaelis; Thierry, Récits des Temps Mérovingiens[Mérovingiens].