Clodoald was a 6th-century Merovingian prince and the grandson of Clovis I. After surviving the murder of his brothers by his uncles, he renounced his royal lineage to pursue a religious life. He lived as a disciple of Séverin of Paris before serving as a priest. Seeking solitude, he eventually settled near the Seine in a location known as Novigentum, where he established a monastery and lived as a hermit. He died in 560 at the age of thirty-eight.