{{Short description|Frankish noblewoman}} '''Lantechildis''' (or '''Lenteildis''') was a Frankish noblewoman, the daughter of the Frankish king Childeric I (d. 481) and the Thuringian noblewoman Basina (d. 477). She was a sister of Clovis I.{{sfn|Martindale|1980|p=1335}} She is mentioned in Gregory of Tours and the ''Liber historiae Francorum''.{{sfn|Martindale|1980|p=657}}
Lantechildis converted to Arianism and received Arian baptism.{{sfn|Cusack|1998|pp=72–73}} She may have been influenced to convert after her sister Audofleda converted at her marriage to the Ostrogothic king Theoderic the Great.{{sfn|Hartmann|2008|p=136}} Later she converted again and received a Catholic baptism like her brother and sister, Albofledis.{{sfn|Martindale|1980|p=657}}{{sfn|Vitiello|2018|p=89}} Clovis' baptism took place between 496/498 and 508/509.{{sfn|Shanzer|1998|p=29}}{{sfn|Hartmann|2008|p=136}} Her conversion from heresy was the subject of a sermon by Bishop Avitus of Vienne entitled in Latin ''Homilia de conversione Lenteildis Chlodovaei sororis'', "Homily on the conversion of Clovis' sister Lenteildis".{{sfn|Hartmann|2008|p=131}}{{sfn|Wood|1994|p=44}}{{sfn|Shanzer|Wood|2002|pp=364, 368}} Avitus preached the sermon at her baptism.{{sfn|Cusack|1998|pp=72–73}}
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