General Notes

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1  NAME Clovis I "The Great" King of the /Franks/
1  NAME Clovis I "The Great" /Meroving/
1  BIRT
2  DATE 463
1  BIRT
2  DATE ABT. 466
2  PLAC Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, France
1  DEAT
2  DATE 511
1  DEAT
2  DATE 27 NOV 511
2  PLAC Saint Pierre, France
[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
andhis
brother after they had been turned over to him. See Chapter 3 of
"TheFranks."
When he died in 511, the kingdom was divided among his four sons. Inthe
next 50 years, the Franks and their Merovingian dynasty extended thepower
and
influence of much of western Europe and became the dominant
Germanicsuccessor
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
ofFrance.
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
ofSalic
Franks 481-511. Became a devout Catholic responsible for
Catholicisminstead of
Arianism in large portion of Western Europe. Great statesman.
ConqueredCentral
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 age15. His career focused largely on forging the Salian Franks
on thenorthern Rhine River and the Ripuarian Franks on the lower Rhine
into asingle dominion. He began with a victory in 486 over Syagrius, the
lastRoman governor in northern Gaul. By 493, when he married the
Burgundianprincess Clotilda (later canonized as St. Clotilda), Clovis had
defeatedmany petty princes whose territories had surrounded his capital
atSoissons. He next came into conflict in 496 with the
confederation  of Germanic tribes known as the Alamanni, who
inhabitedland east of his domains. According to legend, it was only by
invokingthe God of his Christian wife, Clotilda , that he defeated his
enemy.Clotilda was almost certainly instrumental in Clovis's conversion
toChristianity, and he was
baptized in 496. He became the champion of orthodox Christians in
everypart of Gaul and was supported effectively by the church in all
hiscampaigns. He continued to fight the Alamanni, who were
completelyconquered by 506; the next year the Visigoths were decisively
defeatedwhen their king, Alaric II, was killed by Clovis in a battle
nearPoitiers. Clovis made Paris the capital of the Frankish kingdom,
which atthat time included most of present-day France and southwestern
Germany.
According to Salian custom, he divided his kingdom among his
foursons."Clovis I," Microsoft (R) Encarta. Copy right (c) 1994
MicrosoftCorporation. Copy right (c) 1994 Funk & Wagna ll's Corporation.
Clothilda converst him to Christianity in 496.  496 Clovis defeats
theAlemanni near Strasbourg and is baptized by a friend St. Remigius
(orRemy), Bishop of Rheims. When Clovis dies, his realm is devided among
his4 sons. "The Timetables of History, The new Third Revised Edition, by
Bernard Grun,
Founder of the Empire of the Franks, foun der of the MEROVINGIANmonarchy.
He rose from tribal chief
to sole leader of the Salian FRANKS by dint of patience and murder. Hewon
Gaul and SW Germany by fighting the Romans, Alemanni, Burgundians ,and
Visigoths. His wife, St. Clotilda, encouraged his conversion (496)
toChristianity. FILE: Concise Colu mbia Electronic Encyclopedia
Copyright1994,
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