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Events February 25 - Odoacer agrees to a mediated peace with Theodoric the Great, and is later killed by him personally. Theodoric becomes king of the Ostrogoths and moves the capital to Ravenna. The Frankish king Clovis I marries the Burgundian princess Clotilde. Eastern Roman emperor Anastasius I defeats the revolt in Isauria. Births Deaths March 15 - Odoacer, King of Italy Qi Wu ...

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Clovis I (or Chlodowech or Chlodwig, modern French "Louis", modern German "Ludwig") (c.466 - November 27, 511 at Paris), was a member of the Merovingian dynasty. He succeeded his father Childeric I in 481 as King of the Salian Franks. These were a Germanic people occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their own center around Tournai and Cambrai, along the modern frontier between France and Belgium, in an area known as Toxandria. Clovis I - Frankish victory. In 486, with the help of R ...

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The conversion of Clovis to Roman Catholic Christianity, the religion of the majority of his subjects, strengthened the bonds between his Roman subjects and their Germanic conquerors. However, Bernard Bachrach has argued that this conversion from his Frankish pagan beliefs alienated many of the other Frankish sub-kings, and weakened his military position over the next few years. (Interestingly, the monk Gregory of Tours wrote that the pagan beliefs which Clovis abandoned were in Roman gods such as Jupiter and Mercury, rather than thei ...

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Clovis I died in 511 and is interred in Saint Denis Basilica, Paris, France, whereas his father had been buried with the older Merovingian kings at Tournai. Upon his death, his realm was divided among his four sons, Theuderic, Chlodomer, Childebert, and Clotaire. This created the new political units of the Kingdoms of Reims, Orléans, Paris and Soissons and inaugurated a period of disunity which was to last with brief interruptions until the end (751) of his Merovingian dynasty. Popular tradition, based on French royal tradition, holds that the Franks were the founders of the French nation, and that Clovis was t ...

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Clovis I, Clovis I - Frankish victory, Clovis I - The baptism of Clovis, Clovis I - Death, Clovis I - References

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