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Clovis I was a Germanic tribal leader who is considered the founder of the medieval kingdom of France. He rose from a relatively minor ruler in northern Gaul to become the most powerful leader in what is now the modern nation of France...

Scene from the Saint Remigius binding, last quarter of the 9th century CE, ivory, Musée de Picardie in Amiens, France. The scene shows Clovis I being bapitized by St. Remy.

A map illustrating the conquests of Clovis I (466-511/513 CE), King of the Franks.

The tomb of Clovis I (466-511/13 CE), King of the Franks. Cathedral of St. Denis, near Paris.

Queen Clotilde (center) presides over the division of Clovis I's kingdom between his four sons (Theuderic I, Chlodomer, Childebert I, and Chlothar I) who are gathered around her. Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse.

Pre-Colonial North America (also known as Pre-Columbian, Prehistoric, and Precontact) is the period between the migration of the Paleo-Indians to the region between 40,000-14,000 years ago and contact between indigenous tribes and European...

Dagobert I (l. 605-639) ruled as King of Austrasia from 623 to 634 and as King of All the Franks from 629 to 639. Together with the reign of his father, Chlothar II, the period of Dagobert's rule has been characterized as the peak of Merovingian...

The Merovingians were the ruling family of the Franks from roughly 481 CE, when Clovis I rose to power, until 751, when the last Merovingian king was overthrown and supplanted by the Carolingian Dynasty. They established the largest, most...

The Kingdom of West Francia (843-987 CE, also known as The Kingdom of the West Franks) was the region of Western Europe that formed the western part of the Carolingian Empire of Charlemagne (Holy Roman Emperor 800-814 CE) known as Francia...

With the accession of Clovis, son of Childeric I of the Salian Franks, the Germanic occupiers of north-eastern Gaul had found a king who would change their fortunes out of all recognition. Rather than follow his father's policy of allying...