Tuesday, November 29, 2005
This Day in Ancient History
On this day in 511 AD, Clovis, King of the Franks, died. Clovis became chief of the tribe called the Franks (named after one of their weapons, the throwing ax called the francisca) in 481 AD. He was a worshiper of the Norse Gods. He married the daughter of the King of Burgundy, Clothilde, a Christian, who converted her husband. Under his aggressive leadership, the Franks swept away the last remnants of Roman rule, took over most of present France as well as a lot of Germany and some of Spain. His legacy was a united Christian kingdom and the Merovingian Dynasty with other great leaders, such as Charles Martel and Charlemagne, to stop the spread of Islam a few centuries later.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:09 AM 
