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Clovis I
Title: Clovis I
Category: History
Details: Words: 257 | Pages: 1.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Clovis I
Conversion of Clovis
Clovis I, became the King of the Salian Franks in the year 481 AD, at the age of 15. He inherited this position from his father Childeric, who died in 482, and hereafter he began killing off members of his own extended family to reduce the number of men who could battle with him for power. By doing this he successfully united the Salian and Ripurian Franks within the first five years of his reign. …showed first 75 words of 257 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 257 total…his baptism garments2. Clotilda and Clovis conceived four more children, all males and all baptized at birth. These baptisms and Clotilda’s influence on her husband pushed him to convert himself to Catholic Christianity. Clovis actually spoke an oath to God during a battle with the Allamannis.
Clovis’s conversion to Christianity had many affects on the people and territory he ruled. The first of these affects included several changes within Clovis’s own family.
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