Transcript Clovis Bayx

Clovis King of the Franks
By Timothy Bay
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Clovis, Picture
http://csmh.pbworks.com/f/1188875371/Clovis.jpg
Clovis, Dates
-Chlodovocar, or Clovis as he is more commonly know as, was born
in 465 C.E.
-He became chief his tribe at 16 years old in 481.
-In 486 he launched a campaign to wipe out the remnants of
Roman rule in Gaul and defeated the Roman general Syagrius in
battle.
-In 493 he married a Catholic princess, the Burgundian Clotilda.
-In 496 he converted to Christianity after a winning a battle against
the Alamanni, during which he prayed to the Christian god for
victory. He then compelled three thousand of his retainers to
convert as well.
-In 507 he took Aquitaine from the ineffective Visigothic king Alaric
II, and then subjugated Burgundy. Both areas were then
converted to Christianity.
-He died in 511.
Clovis, Maps
http://www.shadowedrealm.com/maps/political/view/growth_of_frankish_power
Clovis, Maps
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/tribes.html
Clovis, places
• Born in Tournai (Belgium).
• He become king of the Franks, by a
combination of inheritance and conquest.
Clovis, facts
• First Christian King of the Franks
• Converted the Franks to Christianity
• Established the Merovingian Dynasty.
Clovis, Sources
• 1.Chris Scarre, Chronicle of the Roman Emperors (Thames & Hudson, 1995)
2.Robert Graves, Count Belisarius (London, 1938)
3.Arthur Ferrill, The Fall of the Roman Empire (Thames & Hudson, 1986)
4.Helen Ellerbe, The Dark Side of Christian History (Morningstar & Lark,
1995)
5.Richard Fletcher, The Conversion of Europe (Harper Collins, 1997)
6.Edward Gibbon, The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire (1799
7.Michael Grant, The Climax of Rome (Weidenfeld& Nicolson, 1996)
8.Michael Grant, Fall of the Roman Empire (Weidenfeld& Nicolson, 1996)
9.Robert Wilken, The Christians As the Romans Saw Them (Yale UP, 1984)
10.Robin Fox lane, Pagans & Christians (Viking, 1986)
• 11.Nelson, Lynn Harry, The Rise of the Franks, 330-751,
<http://www.ukans.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/franks_rise.html
• 12.