[3] Clotilde's story fascinated later generations because it was "the centerpiece of a struggle between the old Catholic, Roman population against the Arianism of the Germanic tribes".

Butler states that the most reliable source about her life is by Belgian historian Godefroid Kurth, but David Hugh Farmer calls Gregory of Tours' hagiography about Clotilde "the principal source for her life" and said that a later hagiography "celebrated her as the saintly ancestor of the French kings".

[10] Clotilde's vita describes her daughter's life, who married a Visigothic man named Amalaric, who she unsuccessfully tried to convert to Catholicism[9] and who "cruelly treated".

Baring-Gould also did not believe that Clotilde did not influence Clovis to fight this war or others in order to revenge her family's death.

[10][17] According to Kurth Godefriod in The Catholic Encyclopedia, an epic about the Franks states that Clotilde incited her son Chlodomer to start a war with his cousin, Sigismund of Burgundy, in order to avenge the death of her parents.

[10] Butler agrees, stating that sources such as the writings of Gregory of Tours have been disproven, which has "vindicated the queen from charges of ferocity and vindictiveness, little in keeping with her saintly character".

The youngest boy, Clodoald, was saved and later became a monk in Paris, at the monastery in Nogent-sur-Marne, which was later renamed in his honour.

[18] Farmer states that Clotilde continued to have a political role in "the violent Merovingian world", mostly through her sons.

[6] Gregory of Tours wrote that her prayers delayed a war between her two surviving sons; as Butler put it, "The very next day, as the armies were about to engage, there arose a tempest that all military operations had to be abandoned".

In 511, Clotilde founded a convent for young noble girls in Les Andelys, where the collegiate church now stands.

According to a story related on the Les Andelys tourist office website, a miracle occurred there during the convent's construction.

[19] The space in front of the fountain was larger than it currently is, so there was enough room for pilgrims who came for healing, which reinforced people's belief in its power.

[19] Clotilde has been depicted in art over several centuries presiding over the baptism of Clovis or as a suppliant at St. Martin's shrine.

[6] There is a painting of Clotilde in the Bedford Missal, probably by Jan Van Eyck, which Dunbar describes as "a beautiful and brilliant representation of the granting of the lilies to Clovis".

[2] Her relics survived the French Revolution and as of 1997, are stored at the Church of Saint Louis of France in Paris.