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Données personnelles King Clovis of the Franks 

• Il est né en l'an 466 dans Rheims, Marne, Loire-Atlantique, Pays de la Loire, France.
• Il est décédé le 27 novembre 511 dans St Pierre Island, Biel Lake Canton, Switzerland, il avait 45 ans.
• Un enfant de Childeric I of the Franks et Basina of Saxony

Famille de King Clovis of the Franks

Il est marié avec Clothilde of Burgundy.

Ils se sont mariés.

Enfant(s):

1. Chlothar I of the Franks  ± 497-561 

Notes par King Clovis of the Franks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I

 

Clovis (Latin: Chlodovechus; reconstructed Frankish: *Hlōdowig;^[1] c. 466 – November 27, 511)^[2] was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.^[3] He is considered to have been the founder of the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Frankish kingdom for the next two centuries.

Clovis was the son of Childeric I, a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks, and Basina, a Thuringian princess. In 481, at the age of fifteen,^[4] Clovis succeeded his father. He conquered the remaining rump state of the Western Roman Empire at the Battle of Soissons (486), and by his death in 511 he had conquered much of the northern and western parts of what had formerly been Roman Gaul.

Clovis is important in the historiography of France as "the first king of what would become France".^[5] His name is Germanic, composed of the elements hlod ("fame") and wig ("combat"), and is the origin of the later French given name Louis, borne by 18 kings of France. Dutch, the most closely related modern language to Frankish, reborrowed the name as Lodewijk from German in the 12th century.^[6]

Clovis is also significant due to his conversion to Christianity in 496, largely at the behest of his wife, Clotilde, who would later be venerated as a saint for this act, celebrated today in both the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church. Clovis was baptized on Christmas Day in AD 508.^[7] The adoption by Clovis of Catholicism (as opposed to the Arianism of most other Germanic tribes) led to widespread conversion among the Frankish peoples, to religious unification across what is now modern-day France, Belgium and Germany, and three centuries later to Charlemagne's alliance with the Bishop of Rome and in the middle of the 10th century under Otto I the Great to the consequent birth of the early Holy Roman Empire.

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