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    Chlodio (probably died after 450), also Clodio, Clodius, Clodion, Cloio or Chlogio, was a Frankish king who attacked and then apparently ruled Roman-inhabited...
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    Gregory of Tours, recorded that Merovech was said to be descended from Chlodio, a roughly contemporary Frankish warlord who pushed from the Silva Carbonaria...
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    Theodemer's reign is supposed to be before that of king Chlodio, and the Chronicle of Fredegar makes Chlodio his son. MacDowall, Simon (2018). The Franks. London:...
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    Roman army was led by the Roman general Aetius and the participation of Chlodio, the king of the Salian Franks is uncertain. The war ended in a Roman victory...
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    territory to the Somme in northern France. These Franks, headed by a certain Chlodio, conquered an area which included Turnacum (the modern Belgian city of...
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    Ripuarian Franks. The main players in this conflict were Flavius Aetius and Chlodio. The most important contemporary source for this war is the Chronica Gallica...
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    Chararic (died c. 509), killed by Clovis Chlodio (5th century) Merovech (c. 450–457), perhaps a son of Chlodio Childeric I (c. 457–481), son of Merovech...
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    which now lies in northern France. Chlodio conquered Tournai, Artois, Cambrai, and as far as the Somme river. Chlodio is often seen as an ancestor of the...
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    held to have fathered Merovech by attacking the wife of the Frankish king Chlodio and thus, to have sired the line of Merovingian kings. The "bull with five...
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    son, was chosen as "long-haired" (crinitus) king. When he died, his son Chlodio was raised up as the next king. Because there is no reference to Pharamond...
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    Gregory (II.9) says that Merovech was reputed by some to be a descendant of Chlodio, an earlier Frankish king who had conquered Gaulish areas first in the...
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    that the Roman general Aetius was involved in it. The presence of King Chlodio of the Salians as captain of the Franks is an assumption and is not confirmed...
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    supposed ancestor, Merovech. Some sources claim that Clovis' grandfather was Chlodio, but his exact relation with Merovech is not known. Numerous small Frankish...
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    were descended from a sea-beast called a quinotaur: It is said that while Chlodio was staying at the seaside with his wife one summer, his wife went into...
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    area east of the Silva Carbonaria, and eventually pushed through it under Chlodio. They had kings in each Roman district (civitas). In the meantime, the...
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  • wars and battles from the Frankish conquest of Turnacum and Cameracum by Chlodio and the establishment of the Frankish realm by Clovis I, the Merovingian...
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    The Battle of Vicus Helena was a clash between the Salian Franks, led by Chlodio, and Roman soldiers, commanded by general Flavius Aetius. The battle is...
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    the Rhine and Meuse rivers in the north, before Frankish rulers such as Chlodio and Childeric I expanded their rule into what is now northern France. Clovis...
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  • "charisma" has been controversial. Fredegar tells a story of the Frankish king Chlodio taking a summer bath with his wife when she was attacked by some sort of...
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    in Aquitania. In 428, he fought the Salian Franks, defeating their king Chlodio and recovering some territory they had occupied along the Rhine. In 429...
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  • Commander-in-chief of the Roman army Aetius put an end to the invasion of Chlodio, king of the Salian Franks in Northern Gaul. Artaxias IV, last king of...
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    the Salic Franks encountered hardly any resistance. From Duisburg, king Chlodio conquered Cambrai and Tournai, and he reached the Somme. After his death...
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    Chrysaphius, eunuch and chief minister Cui Hao, prime minister of Northern Wei Chlodio, semi legendary Frankish king and supposed great-grandfather of Clovis...
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  • frontier. Aetius pushes the Salian Franks back across the River Somme. King Chlodio signs a peace treaty and becomes a foederatus of the Western Roman Empire...
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    long-haired kings of the Franks), and then states that when he died, his son Chlodio [428 AD] was raised up as the next king. The work says no more of him....
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    needed] c. 445–450, Invasion of Northern Gaul by Salian Franks led by king Chlodio, who conquers the cities of Tournai and Cambrai. 448, Defeat of the Salian...
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    Bagaudae in Armorica (Gaul), and defeats the Salian Franks under King Chlodio near Arras (Belgica Secunda); the invaders are stopped around a river-crossing...
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  • December 21 Battle of Mainz, Crossing of the Rhine 450 King Chlodio of the Salian Franks died. Chlodio's son Merovech became king of the Salian Franks with the...
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  • Gunther d. 437 King of Burgundy Chlodio c. 392/395– 445/448 ? ? ? Chilperic I King of Burgundy Gondioc d. 473 King of Burgundy r. c. 437 – 473 ? Merovech...
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  • 448 Battle of Vicus Helena Romans under Aëtius defeated the Franks under Chlodio. 450 Battle of Finnsburg Possibly mythical battle where Frisians allied...
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