King Clovis I (The Great) Merovigian Of The Franks 
Clovis I, known as The Great, was born in 0481.1 The Great's father was King Childeric I Merovigian Of The Franks and his mother was Princess Basina II Of The Thuringians Franks. His paternal grandparents were King Maerovaec Merovigian Of The Franks and Queen Vaerica Chlodeswinthe Merovigian Of Franks; his maternal grandparents were Banin Chlodwig I De Keulen Of The Thuringian Franks and Lady Basine De Saxony Of Saksen. He had a sister named Andelfida. He had a half-brother named Berthar. He died in Paris.1 General Notes
[from Ancestry.com 139798.GED]
Clovis became king of Tournai at the death of his father Childeric I in 481. By unifying the Franks and bringing most of Gaul and the Germanic lands under his control, Clovis became the founder of the Frankish Kingdom.
In 486 Clovis decisively defeated General Syagrius, son of Aegidius, the last Roman governor of northern Gaul, and set up his capital at Soissons. In 490-491 he took possession of the Salian Kingdoms of Cambrai and Tongres. In 496 he repelled an invasion of the Alamanni by invoking the God of his Christian wife according to legend. After completely defeating the Alamanni in 506, Clovis marched against the Visigoths in southwestern Gaul. He defeated Alaric II, king of the Visigoths, near Poitiers in 507. Clovis made Paris his capital in 508.
Clothilde, his wife, was Arian by religion but with strong Roman Catholic tendencies. This marriage was of primary importance, as the real shape of France dated from it. It was she who led her husband to abandon his old beliefs and embrace Christianity. He was baptized in the 15th year of his reign at Rheims on Christmas Day in 496 along with 3000 of his followers.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0347 in Germany d.0404
- b.~ 0370 in Westphalia,Germany d.~ 0428
- b.~ 0395 in Westphalia,Germany d.~ 0448
- b.0354 in France d.0419
- b.~ 0376 in France
- b.0360
- b.0418 d.0458
- b.0395 in Thuringia,Germany
- b.0436 d.0481
- b.0347 in Germany d.0404
- b.~ 0370 in Westphalia,Germany d.~ 0428
- b.~ 0395 in Westphalia,Germany d.~ 0448
- b.0354 in France d.0419
- b.~ 0376 in France
- b.0360
- b.0419 in Westphalia,Germany d.~ 0449
- b.~ 0324 in Germany d.0389
- b.0347 in Germany d.0404
- b.0399 d.~ 0450
- b.~ 0350 d.0384
- b.~ 0355
- b.0481 d.11 NOV 511 in Paris
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The Great and Clothilde were married in a religious ceremony in 0493 in France.1 They had three sons and a daughter, named Theodoric I, Chilodomer, The Old and Clothilde.
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Children
King Chilodomer Merovigian Of Orleans
Chilodomer was born in 0511. He died at the age of 13 in 0524.
King Clotaire (The Old ) Lotaire I Of Salian Franks
Clotaire, known as The Old , was born in Reims,Neustria. He died in Braines,France.
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