biography
| name: |
Clovis I
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Ger Chlodwig or Chlodovech
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pronunciation:
[klohvis]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.465–511)
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| biography:
| Merovingian king, who succeeded his father, Childeric (481), as king of the Franks. He overthrew the Gallo-Romans, and took possession of the whole country between the Somme and the Loire by 496. In 493 he married (St) Clotilde, and was converted to Christianity along with several thousand warriors after routing the Alemanni. In 507, he defeated the Visigoth, Alaric II, captured Bordeaux and Toulouse, but was checked at Arles by the Ostrogoth, Theodoric. He then took up residence in Paris. |
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