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Clovis I, also Chlodowech or Chlodwigb. circa 465; d 511Succeeded his father, Childeric, in 481 as King of the Salian Franks. In 486 he overthrew the Gallo-Romans under Syagrius, near Soissons; in 493 he married Clothilde, a Christian Burgundian princess, and in 496 embraced her faith. In 507 he defeated and killed Alaric II, the Arian king of the Visigoths, at Vouillé, but was checked at Arles by Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths. He then settled in Paris, where he died. He was the real founder of the united Frankish kingdom.
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