Family tree Klumpers » Merowech der Franken (± 410-± 458)

Personal data Merowech der Franken 

• He was born about 410 in France.Source 1
• Birth registration.Source 2
• He was christened.Source 3
• He died about 458.
• A child of Clodion de Langharige of Franks and Basina von Thuringen
• This information was last updated on February 28, 2014.

Household of Merowech der Franken

He has/had a relationship with Verica Hatilde.

The relationship started

Child(ren):

1. Childerich I der Franken  ± 436-481 

Notes about Merowech der Franken

Governed the Salic Franks
Defeated "Attila the Hun" in 451
Was son or son-in-law of Clodion
Before 430, the Salic Francs traverse the Escaut, and settl e north of Gand [Gant] and also into Courtrai. Their chief , Clodion, takes Cambrai in 430. When Clodion died in 448 , Merovee would succeed him as chief. Merovee was a Frankis h Prince who ruled over the Saliennes [thus, this Merovee i s King of the Salic Francs] from 452-458. He was the comman der of the Francs in the great Battle of the Catalonic Fiel ds, where he defeated Attila the Hun in 451. It is from hi s name that the kings of the First Race derived their name . The Huns had steadily increased their domination from hum ble beginnings off the Caspian sea from Caucase to the Elbe , from Muldavia to Hungary in the later part of the Fourt h Century.

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