• General Notes

  TITLE:  King of the FRANKS
  NICK: "Le Grand" ("The Great")
  CHRISTENING: 25 Dec. 496, Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique,
  FRANCE
  BURIAL: Church of the Holy Apostles, near Paris, FRANCE
  NOTES:
  [De La Pole.FTW]
  Sources: RC 303; AF; Kraentzler 1636, 1777, 1780; "The Franks" by Edward James; Collins; Pfafman; Women in the Wall.
  Franks:
  United all the Franks. It was not done peacefully. Clovis' methods
  included conquest and murder. He personally killed one Frankish king and his brother after they had been turned over to him. See Chapter 3 of "The Franks." When he died in 511, the kingdom was divided among his four sons. In the next 50 years, the Franks and their Merovingian dynasty extended the power and influence of much of western Europe and became the dominant Germanic successor kingdom to the Roman Empire.
  Became a Christian and converted the Franks to Christianity.
  RC: Clovis I "the Great," King of the Salic Franks, 481-511. King of France.
  K: Clovis I, King of the Franks. Died 493 (picked up a marriage date?)
  Also called Chlodwig.
  Pfafman: Clovis (Louis) I, the Great. Sole King of Franks 511, King of Salic
  Franks 481-511. Became a devout Catholic responsible for Catholicism instead of Arianism in large portion of Western Europe. Great statesman. Conquered Central and Southern France and Gaul, later conquered the Ripuerian Franks. His
  dominions became France.First important ruler of the Merovingian dynasty. He succeeded his father, Childeric I, as king of the Salian Franks at age 15. His career focused largely on forging the Salian Franks on the northern Rhine River and the Ripuarian Franks on the lower Rhine into a single dominion. He began with a victory in 486 over Syagrius, the last Roman governor in northern Gaul. By 493, when he married the Burgundian princess Clotilda (later canonized as St. Clotilda), Clovis had defeated many petty princes whose territories had surrounded his capital at Soissons. He next came into conflict in 496 with the
  confederation of Germanic tribes known as the Alamanni, who inhabited land east of his domains. According to legend, it was only by invoking the God of his Christian wife, Clotilda , that he defeated his enemy. Clotilda was almost certainly instrumental in Clovis's conversion to Christianity, and he was
  baptized in 496. He became the champion of orthodox Christians in every part of Gaul and was supported effectively by the church in all his campaigns. He continued to fight the Alamanni, who were completely conquered by 506; the next year the Visigoths were decisively defeated when their king, Alaric II, was killed by Clovis in a battle near Poitiers. Clovis made Paris the capital of the Frankish kingdom, which at that time included most of present-day France and southwestern Germany.
  According to Salian custom, he divided his kingdom among his four sons."Clovis I," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copy right (c) 1994 Microsoft Corporation. Copy right (c) 1994 Funk & Wagna ll's Corporation.
  Clothilda converst him to Christianity in 496. 496 Clovis defeats the Alemanni near Strasbourg and is baptized by a friend St. Remigius (or Remy), Bishop of Rheims. When Clovis dies, his realm is devided among his 4 sons. "The Timetables of History, The new Third Revised Edition, by
  Bernard Grun,
  Founder of the Empire of the Franks, foun der of the MEROVINGIAN monarchy. He rose from tribal chief
  to sole leader of the Salian FRANKS by dint of patience and murder. He won Gaul and SW Germany by fighting the Romans, Alemanni, Burgundians , and Visigoths. His wife, St. Clotilda, encouraged his conversion (496) to Christianity. FILE: Concise Colu mbia Electronic Encyclopedia Copyright 1994,
  Columbia University Press.
  NOTE: kinsman of Clovis I "the Great", King of the Sali c Franks
  NAME: Clovis the Riparian, K. of Cologne, Flourished about 420.
  Subjugated the Alamanni from the 

Details of (Roi) Clovis I's family with (Ste.) Chrotechilde * De BOURGOGNE