He learned to control his hunger from his step-father. His devotion to them and the new life they provided lead him to quickly become a strong, wrathful hunter.
It was at this time that Matthew took the surname De Clermont, aligning with his new parents. Matthew agreed and Ysabeau made him a vampire, becoming his new step-mother and sire, with Philippe as his step-father.
She offered him a life that allowed him to atone for his sin through service, and never face his coming damnation. While awaiting his impending death, Ysabeau de Clermont, the young wife of Philippe de Clermont, offered Matthew an alternative ending to his presumed afterlife in hell, as the traditional Catholic belief is that committing suicide destines you for Hell. Eventually, on what would have been Lucas' birthday, his grief became too much to bear and, in a moment of weakness, he jumped off the scaffold of the same church he had just built in his son's memory.
Though Matthew was devastated, he continued to work on the building of a local church in memory of Lucas. Matthew's wife and son did not survive the wave. As he recalls, in 536 a fever came to the village where his family called home. Diana eventually learns the truth of the story through Matthew's retelling of the events in the second novel. As a catholic the events are in direct conflict of the church and could cause controversy, since he was a trusted and pledged defender of the church in the decades that followed. After struggling for many years, she gave birth to a son named Lucas.ĭespite being one of the older vampires, most don't know the actual facts behind Matthew's death and rebirth. They were married when he was twenty-five, and she was nineteen. He was a devout Roman Catholic when he met and fell in love with a woman named Blanca. He later apprenticed and transitioned into becoming a stonemason. In his mortal life, like his biological father, Matthew was first a carpenter. Matthew Clairmont was born in France around 500 AD.
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