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	Clovis I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Shortly before his death, Clovis called a synod of Gallic bishops to meet at Orléans to reform the church and create a strong link between the crown and the Catholic episcopate.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clovis_I (753 words)

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		Meantime king Clovis met with Alaric, king of the Goths, in the plain of Vouillé at the tenth milestone from Poitiers, and while the one army was for fighting at a distance the other tried to come to close combat.
		Clovis received an appointment to the consulship from the emperor Anastasius, and in the church of the blessed Martin he clad himself in the purple tunic and chlamys, and placed a diadem on his head.
		When they were dead Clovis received all their kingdom and treasures And having killed many other kings and his nearest relatives, of whom he was jealous lest they take the kingdom from him, he extended his rule over all the Gauls.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/gregory-clovisconv.html (2278 words)

	French History Timeline
		Clovis married (493) Clotilda, a princess of the Burgundians and a Christian.
		CLOVIS II (638-656), son of Dagobert I, became king of Neustria and Burgundy.
		Jean II was captured by the 'Black Prince' Edward, son of Edward III, at the battle of Poitiers (1356).
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	43rd Generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Clovis de Neustrie II, King of Neustria "A "Do-Nothing King"" was born circa 633.
		BIOGRAPHY: Clovis II was the Merovingian Frankish king of Neustria and Burgundy who ruled from 639, and the son of Dagobert I. He was dominated successively by Aega and by Erchinoald, Neustrian mayors of the palace.
		Regintrude d'Austrasie II, Princess of Austrasia was born circa 628.
	www.boazfamilytree.com /gneville/aqwg111.htm (782 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Franks
		Henceforth Gaul, from the Pyrenees to the Rhine, was subject to Clovis, with the exception of the territory in the southeast, i.e.
		Established at Paris, Clovis governed this kingdom by virtue of an agreement concluded with the bishops of Gaul, according to which natives and barbarians were to be on terms of equality, and all cause of friction between the two races was removed when, in 496, the king was converted to Catholicism.
		But like Clotaire II, in 614, Clovis was constrained in 660 to grant Austrasia a separate rule, and appointed his brother Childeric II its king, with Wulfoald as mayor of the palace.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06238a.htm (5048 words)

	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon (chapter38)
		Clovis was the offspring of this voluntary union; and, when he was no more than fifteen years of age, he succeeded, by his father’s death, to the command of the Salian tribe.
		Clovis encountered the invaders of Gaul in the plain of Tolbiac, about twenty-four miles from Cologne; and the two fiercest nations of Germany were mutually animated by the memory of past exploits, and the prospect of future greatness.
		After the baptism of Clovis, he reformed several articles that appeared incompatible with Christianity: the Salic law was again amended by his sons; and at length, under the reign of Dagobert, the code was revised and promulgated in its actual form, one hundred years after the establishment of the French monarchy.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /g/gibbon/edward/g43d/chapter38.html (19515 words)

	Clovis II
		Clovis II Clovis II (or Chlodowech, modern French "Louis") (637 - November 27 655), a member of the Merovingian dynasty, succeeded his father Dagobert I in 639 as King of Neustria and Burgundy.
		His wife, Queen Balthild an Anglian aristocrat sold into slavery in France, bore him three sons who all became king after his death: Chlotar, Childeric and Theuderic.
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	The Oxford Merovingian Page
		Clovis I: King of the Franks 481 (around Soissons?), son of Childeric I and Basina, died in 30th yr, 45 yrs old (b.c.466) defeated Syagrius of Soissons 486 (5th yr), invaded Thuringia 491 (10th yr), sole king c.509, d.
		Clovis II, King of Neustria and Burgundy 638-57, half-brother, son of Dagobert by Nantechild.
		Clothar III, King of Neustria and Burgundy 657-73, son of Clovis II and Bathild: a minor under the regency of his mother Bathild (a former slave from England) until 664/5, he was the first of the "do-nothing" kings or rois fainants.
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	Généalogie Joël Morin Genealogy - Person Page 5
		Clovis, on hearing of the beauty of Clotilda, sent his friend Aurelian, disguised as a beggar, to visit her secretly, and give her a gold ring from his master; he then asked Gondebad for the hand of the young princess.
		Clovis died at Paris in 511, and Clotilda had him interred on what was then Mons Lucotetius, in the church of the Apostles (later Sainte-Geneviève), which they had built together to serve as a mausoleum, and which Clotilda was left to complete.
		Dirk II Ct of Holland married Hildegard of Flanders, daughter of Arnulf I of Flanders, circa 950.
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	French History Outline, the Merovingiens French Kings [481-751]
		Charibert II [630-631] Son of Chlotar II, brother of Dagobert I and father of Theodoric II; In 630 Dagobert I ceded to him several territories in Aquitaine and Gascony; He and Theodoric II were assassinated the following year with his lands reverting to Dagobert I. Clovis II [639-657] Son of Dagobert I; King of Neustria-Bourgondy.
		Childeric II [662-675] Second son of Clovis II; Became king of Austrasia; Was assassinated.
		Son of Dagobert II; He was a puppet of Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne, who governed, as the Mayor of the Palace, until his death in 741; In 732, Charles Martel repulsed the Arab invasion at Poitiers.
	www.french-at-a-touch.com /French_History/history_the_merovingiens_481-751.htm (875 words)

	Clovis II -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		During his reign actual power was held by the Carolingian Pippin II of Herstal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia.
		The founder and king of the Frankish kingdom that dominated Western Europe in the early Middle Ages was Clovis.
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	Rome - Vol III, Chapter XXXVIII - Notes
		Clovis overtook and attacked the Visigoths near Vivonne, and the victory was decided near a village still named Champagne St. Hilaire.
		Such are the words of a general constitution promulgated by Clotaire, the son of Clovis, the sole monarch of the Franks (in tom.
		[162: Theodebert, grandson of Clovis, and king of Austrasia, was the most powerful and warlike prince of the age; and this remarkable adventure may be placed between the years 534 and 547, the extreme terms of his reign.
	www.cca.org /cm/rome/vol3/note38.html (9539 words)

	The Sons of Clovis: Dark ages murder mystery, or just the latest fad?
		It is called "The Sons of Clovis" and depicts two dead bodies, adrift on a floating raft, which looks like a bed.
		Following the death of Clovis in 511, the kingdom was divided among his four sons.
		Michael Baguenault and Kol Blount are drawn to this grand salon painting showing the king's sons 'hamstrung, deathly pale, floating bound on a barge down a ghastly grey river' as an image of themselves: dispossessed, tortured, and cast adrift.
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	Search Results for Clovis - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Merovingian Frankish king of Neustria and Burgundy from 639, the son of Dagobert I. He was dominated successively by Aega and by Erchinoald, Neustrian mayors of the palace.
		According to Gregory of Tours, Clovis came to believe that his victory at Tolbiacum in 496 was due to the help of the Christian God, whom his wife Clotilda had been encouraging him to accept.
		Clovis (reigned 481/482–511), the son of Childeric, unified Gaul with the exception of areas in the southeast.According to the traditional and highly stylized account by Gregory of Tours that is now...
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	IN FRANCE
		In 613, Clotaire II was proclaimed master of Neustria, Austrasia, and Burgundy and thus Merovingian King.
		In 650, during the reign of Clovis II, Saint Landericus succeeded Audobertus as Bishop of Paris.
		In the later seventh century, Bathild, wife of Clovis II and later regent, founded monasteries and supported the reform of old monasteries, including St.-Denis, along new principles, including that of independence from the local bishop.
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	Merovingian Dynasty - Crystalinks
		On his death the realm was divided among his sons, but by 558 it was united under his last surviving son, Chlotar I. The pattern of dividing and then reuniting the realm continued for generations.
		Clovis I was the first important ruler of the Merovingian Dynasty and is considered the founder of the French State.
		Clovis I married in 493 to Clotilda (475 - 545), later St. Clotilda, daughter of Childperic, King of the Burgundians.
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	'The Delaforce Family History' - Chapter 47 - The Girls (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Clothaire II must have been relieved when his mother died at the ripe old age, for then, of 53 but he was not to be left in peace by the on-going war of the siblings.
		However, his son Clovis II was of the line of Toulouse and so was Dagobert's unnamed daughter's family below.
		Dagobert was a hard man and his equally tough son Clovis II, who inherited Neustria and Burgundy, married Balthilde, an English slave girl but of aristocratic family, bought by Grimoald, the Palace Mayor from pirates for the purpose.
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	WHKMLA : History of the Frankish Kingdom : the Merovingian Dynasty, 497-751
		In 497, King CLOVIS converted to CATHOLICISM, for himself and all his countrymen - at that time the only Germanic Kingdom to opt for Catholic (Roman) christianity; the others were Arians.
		Clovis pursued a policy of quick expansion, conquering the last remnant of the Roman Empire - the Province of SYAGRIUS (484-486), taking AQUITAINE from the Visigoths (507), campaigning against the Alamanni (496, 502, 507 subjugated) and Burgundians (509).
		Under Clovis' successors, despite the frequent partition of the kingdom, Frankish expansion continued; Burgundy was subdued 532-534, the alpine Alamanni surrendered 536.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/merovingians.html (438 words)

	Book Two Powerful king
		He had married Audofleda, the sister of Clovis the king of France; his sisters and their daughters had married princes of neighboring territories.
		When powerful king Clovis had killed king Alaric, as you have heard, he did not conquer his entire kingdom, but a country at the gate of Spain was taken and held by Amalric, one of Alaric's sons, after his father's death.
		He was overcome and beaten, and lost his life and the glory of his name, by a small group of men, and by a captain, not of an emperor or a king, but of a French prince [Belisarius actually died in Constantinople, and not in Italy, in March of 566.
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	Medieval Sourcebook: Gregory of Tours: History of the Franks
		Clovis was a champion and favorite of the right supernatural powers in their fight with the wrong ones, and any occasional atrocities he committed in the struggle were not only pardonable but praiseworthy.
		And Clovis sent to Alaric to send him back, otherwise he was to know that Clovis would make war on him for his refusal.
		And Clovis took him and gave orders to put him under guard, and when he had got his kingdom he directed that he be executed secretly.; At that time many churches were despoiled by Clovis' army, since he was as yet involved in heathen error.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/gregory-hist.html (17963 words)

	I22777: Dagobert I "the Great" (Kg.of the Franks) (605 - 19 JAN 639)
		The son of Chlotar II, Dagobert became king of Austrasia in 623 and of the entire Frankish realm in 629.
		The prosperity of Dagobert's reign, and the revival of the arts during this period, can be judged from the rich contents of the tombs of the period and from the goldsmiths' work for the churches.
		He negotiated unsuccessfully with the Byzantine emperor Nicephorus II Phocas (913?-69) for an alliance between the Byzantine and Holy Roman empires, but was able to arrange a marriage between his son Otto II and Theophano (955?-91), daughter of the Byzantine emperor Romanus II (939-63).
	www.pa.uky.edu /~shapere/dkbingham/d0006/g0000053.html (791 words)

	Ancestors of Linda Nicholson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Clovis is also referred to as Chlodowech, Chlodovech, Chlodovic, Chlodovicus, and Chlodwig; but "Clovis" is used most frequently.
		Clovis is considered the founder of the French State.
		However, the exact chronology of Clovis' reign is hopelessly obscure; even the identity of the various peoples he is said to have defeated and absorbed into his kingdom is debatable.
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	Kingdoms of France - Franks
		The Frankish leader, Clovis, united the Salians with the Ripuarian (Eastern) Franks and they were converted to Christianity in 497.
		Their kingdom expanded under Clovis and his sons to include Neustria (northern France), Austrasia (Netherlands, Austria, northern Germany), Burgundy and Provence by 714.The Franks quickly became the dominant Germanic tribe in not only Gaul but throughout Central and Western Europe.
		The kingdom is divided between Clovis' four sons, ruling Austrasia, Orleans, Paris, and Soissons.
	www.kessler-web.co.uk /History/KingListsEurope/FranceFranks.htm (645 words)

	Clovis I, King of the Franks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Clovis inherited his father's kingdom in 481, at which time he unified the Salian and Ripurian Franks.
		By 506 the Alamanni were subdued, and the next year Clovis finished his expansion by taking Aquitaine from the weak Visigothic king Alaric II.
		On Clovis' death in 511, the kingdom was split between Chlodomer (Orleans), Childebert (Paris), Chlotar (Soissons), and Theuderic (Metz).
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	Heitz v. Clovis, No. 30684
		Heitz was contacted by appellee William E. Clovis, II, to secure refinancing for the corporation.
		Thereafter, Koreski, Dils and William E. Clovis, II, met on numerous occasions until, in early 1999, Dils purchased the appellees' corporate assets.
		Their refusal was based upon the fact that, approximately five months prior to the signing of the Commission Agreement, Dils and William E. Clovis, II, had discussed the possible purchase by Dils of Clovis Motor Co.'s assets.
	www.state.wv.us /wvsca/docs/spring03/30684.htm (2260 words)

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