Ruler · 466 – 511

Clovis I

Lived 466 – 511; monarch. King of Franks of Francia, 481 – 511.

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Lived: 466 – 511; 45 years
In office: 30 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Francia
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

King of Franks

Francia · the 2nd of 22 dated reigns · 458 – 840

Childeric I458 – 481

Clovis I481 – 511

Charibert II629 – 632

Chilperic of Aquitaine632 – 633

Childeric II662 – 673

17 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 481 – 511 · 30 years · came to it aged 15

Came to it: inheritedthe child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 511, the year they died

Clovis succeeded his father, Childeric I, as a king of the Salian Franks in 481, and eventually came to rule an area extending from what is now the southern Netherlands to northern France, corresponding in Roman terms to Gallia Belgica (northern Gaul).

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