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7 unusual facts about Clovis I


Antrustion

The antrustions seem to have played an important part at the time of Clovis.

Chlothsind

Chothsind was a daughter of Ingund and King Chlothar I, who was himself one of four sons of King Clovis I.

Cryonectes

The specific name is derived from the Frank kingdom of Neustrie which covered northwest France, created after the death of Clovis I.

Galactorius of Lescar

The legend, told in the breviary of Lescar, printed in 1541, portrays Galactorius fighting the Visigoths at Mimizan at the head of an armed band and seeking help from Clovis.

Mark L. Prophet

a high priest at the Temple of the Solar Logos in Atlantis; Noah, Ikhnaton, Aesop, Mark the Evangelist, Origen, Sir Launcelot; Bodhidharma, founder of Zen Buddhism; Clovis I, first King of France; Saladin, St. Bonaventure, Louis XIV, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; and Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia.

Monarchy of Antigua and Barbuda

The current Antiguan and Barbudian monarchy can trace its ancestral lineage back to the Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian periods, and ultimately back to the kings of the Angles, the early Scottish kings, and the Frankish kingdom of Clovis I.

Wilhelm Junghans

Junghans is remembered for his 1856 work involving the Merovingian kings- Childeric I and Clovis I, titled Die Geschichte der fränkischen Könige Childerich und Chlodovech, kritisch untersucht.


Battle of Vouillé

The Battle of Vouillé or Vouglé (from Latin Campus Vogladensis) was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at Vouillé, Vienne near Poitiers (Gaul), in the spring of 507 between the Franks commanded by Clovis and the Visigoths of Alaric II, the conqueror of Spain.

Coronation

The anointing served as a reminder of the baptism of Clovis I in Reims in 496, where the ceremony was finally transferred in 816.

Laying on of hands

The rite of the king's touch began in France with Robert II the Pious, but legend later attributed the practice to Clovis as Merovingian founder of the Holy Roman kingdom, and Edward the Confessor in England.

Mesmin

Clovis gave Euspicius and his nephew Mesmin the domain of Micy, near Orléans at the confluence of the Loire and the Loiret, for a monastery in 508.

Vouillé, Deux-Sèvres

It is traditionally identified as the Campus Vogladensis, site of the Battle of Vouillé (507), in which Clovis definitively vanquished the Visigoths.

Vouillé, Vienne

The Battle of Vouillé or Vouglé (from Latin Campus Vogladensis) was fought in the northern marches of Visigothic territory, at Vouillé, Vienne, (Gaul), in the spring of 507 between the Franks commanded by Clovis and the Visigoths of Alaric II, the conqueror of Spain.


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