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• 09 Jun 12
  

  David Dietrich
  • King of the Salic Franks; born in the year 466
  • born in the year 466
  • King of the Franks of Tournai in 481
  • congratulation from St. Remigius, Archbishop of Reims.
  • attacking Syagrius
  • great a part of Northern <!--3ref=u44=x62716.htm-->Gaul<!--k07-->
  • delivered Syagrius
  • Alaric II, King of the Visigoths
  • <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->decapitated<!--k03--> in 486.
  • although a pagan, <!--k23-->Clovis continued his father's policy by remaining on amicable terms with <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->Gaulish<!--k03--> <!--3ref=u74=02581b.htm-->episcopate<!--k03-->
  • he split his skull with an axe, saying: "It was thus that you treated the Soissons vase."
  • by the <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->Gaulish<!--k06--> <!--2ref=u74=02581b.htm-->episcopate<!--k01--> that he gained <!--2ref=u76=12315a.htm-->possession<!--k01--> of the country. The bishops, it is quite <!--2ref=u66=03539b.htm-->certain<!--k01--> mapped out the regime that afterwards prevailed.
  • <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->absolute<!--k03--> equality between the <!--2ref=u91=06395b.htm-->Gallo-Roman<!--k01--> <!--2ref=u93=07747a.htm-->natives<!--k01--> and their Germanic conquerors
  • All the free <!--2ref=u66=09580c.htm-->men<!--k01--> in the <!--3ref=u77=08646a.htm-->kingdom<!--k02--> of <!--k23-->Clovis, whether they were of <!--3ref=u44=x74215.htm-->Roman<!--k08--> or of Germanic origin, called themselves Franks
  • Master of half of <!--3ref=u44=x62716.htm-->Gaul
  • two Salic kingdoms
  • Clovis, to win them over to his side before taking the field, distributed among them money, bracelets, and baldries, all in gilded copper in fraudulent imitation of genuine gold
  • our blood to be humiliated by allowing yourself to be put in chains? It were better that you should die.
  • "Had you but helped your brother, they would not have bound him", and he slew <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->Richaire<!--k06--> also
  • The only facts that can be accepted are that <!--k23-->Clovis made war upon <!--3ref=u44=x66907.htm-->Kings<!--k03--> <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->Ragnacaire<!--k06--> and <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->Chararic<!--k06-->, put them to death and seized their territories.
  • The popular epic of the Franks
  • In 492 or 493 <!--k23-->Clovis, who was master of <!--3ref=u44=x62716.htm-->Gaul<!--k07--> from the Loire to the frontiers of the <!--2ref=u91=11415b.htm-->Rhenish<!--k01--> <!--3ref=u77=08646a.htm-->Kingdom<!--k02--> of <!--3ref=u44=x57421.htm-->Cologne<!--k04-->, <!--3ref=u44=x83859.htm-->married<!--k03--> <!--2ref=u24=04066a.htm-->Clotilda<!--k01-->, the niece of Gondebad, King of the Burgundians.
  • <!--3ref=u24=04066a.htm-->Clotilda<!--k04-->, who was a Catholic
  • he <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->invoked<!--k03--> the aid of <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->Clotilda's<!--k03--> God, promised to become a Christian if only victory should be granted him. He conquered and, true to his word was baptized at Reims
  • Gregory of Tours, in his ecclesiastical history of the Franks
  • the <!--3ref=u44=x83737.htm-->life<!--k03--> of St. Remigius
  • n the Frankish <!--3ref=u77=08646a.htm-->kingdom<!--k02-->, on the contrary, the fundamental identity of <!--3ref=u44=x85379.htm-->religious<!--k03--> beliefs and equality of political rights made national and <!--2ref=u73=03794b.htm-->patriotic<!--k01--> sentiments <!--3ref=u44=x86376.htm-->universal<!--k03--> and produced the most <!--3ref=u44=x84705.htm-->perfect<!--k03--> <!--2ref=u99=07139a.htm-->harmony<!--k01--> between the two <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->races<!--k03-->.
  • everything goes to <!--3ref=u79=12454c.htm-->prove<!--k02--> that his conversion was sincere, and the opposite cannot be maintained without refusing <!--2ref=u78=04476a.htm-->credence<!--k01--> to the most trustworthy evidence.
  • <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->mediate<!--k03--> in a quarrel between his wife's two uncles
  • (see CLOTILDA)
  • in the year 506 against Alaric II, King of the Visigoths of Aquitaine. He was awaited as their deliverer by the Catholics of that <!--3ref=u77=08646a.htm-->kingdom
  • The Franks took possession of the Visigoth <!--3ref=u77=08646a.htm-->Kingdom<!--k07--> as far as the Pyrenees and the Rhone
  • the <!--3ref=u44=x60447.htm-->Emperor<!--k08--> <!--3ref=u44=x52004.htm-->Anastasius<!--k04--> rejoice over the success attained by <!--k23-->Clovis that, to testify his satisfaction, he sent the Frankish conqueror the insignia of the consular dignity
  • The annexation of the <!--3ref=u91=11415b.htm-->Rhenish<!--k02--> <!--3ref=u77=08646a.htm-->Kingdom<!--k02--> of <!--3ref=u44=x57421.htm-->Cologne<!--k04-->
  • the two kings of <!--3ref=u44=x57421.htm-->Cologne<!--k04--> met with <!--2ref=u73=15446a.htm-->violent<!--k01--> deaths, and that that <!--k23-->Clovis, their relative, succeeded them partly by <!--2ref=u73=13055c.htm-->right<!--k01--> of birth, partly by popular choice.
  • From Paris, which he had finally made his capital, he administered the various provinces through the agency of counts (comites) established in each city and selected by him from the aristocracy of both <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->races
  • the Salic <!--3ref=u44=x67319.htm-->Law<!--k03--> (Lex Salica)
  • Acknowledging the Church as the foremost civilizing force, he protected it in every way possible, especially by providing for it the National <!--3ref=u44=x57900.htm-->Council<!--k03--> of Orléans (511
  • due to <!--k23-->Clovis: the <!--3ref=u44=x81429.htm-->church<!--k04--> of the <!--2ref=u74=01626c.htm-->Apostles<!--k01-->, later of <!--2ref=u89=13347a.htm-->Sainte-Geneviève<!--k01-->,
  • Clovis died at the age of forty-five
  • The <!--3ref=u44=x83178.htm-->history<!--k08--> of this monarch has been so <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->hopelessly<!--k03--> distorted by popular poetry and so grossly disfigured by the vagaries of the barbarian imagination as make the portrayal of his <!--3ref=u44=x81343.htm-->character<!--k03--> wellneigh impossible.
  • upon the ruins of the Roman Empire he built up a powerful system, the influence of which dominated European civilization during many centuries, and from which sprang France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland, without taking into account that northern Spain and northern Italy were also, for a time, under the civilizing regime of the Frankish <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->Empire<!--k03-->.
  • <!--3ref=u44=xxyyyk.htm-->Clodomir<!--k03-->, Childebert, and Clotaire. They divided their father's <!--3ref=u77=08646a.htm-->kingdom<!--k02-->

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• 12 Mar 08
  

  Jamie Wood

  Bit subjective as is a Catholic site but gives good deatialed overview of reign and his christianity.

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