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Filho de Childeric, Rei do Salic Franks. Tornando-se o soberano do Tournai Franks em 481, ele começou a sua conquista tomando Soissons, e estendendo os seus limites ao Loire, depois do qual ele invadiu Courtrai e Tongres. Ele conferenciou nos direitos iguais vencidos com os povos germânicos, e todos adoptaram o nome de Franks. Aproximadamente 493 ele casadomarried SantoSaint ClotildaClotilda, e quando, depois de invocar a ajuda do seu Deus durante a batalha desesperada de Tolbiac contra o Alemanni, ele ganhou a vitória, ele foi batizado com 3.000 dos seus guerreiros no Reims por Saint Remi, 496. A sua conversão ajudou a soldar os povos da sua monarquia naquela nação que deveu ser há tempos o defensor principal de civilização ocidental e catolicismo. Em 506 ele derrotou o Visigodo Alaric II no Poitiers, e finalmente concluiu as suas conquistas anexando a Colônia. Ele expôs o grande talento no governo, e fez Paris a sua capital. Ele fundou lá como um mausoléu para ele e Clotilda a igreja dos Apóstolos, depois SantoSaint GenevieveGenevieve, que manteve o seu permanece até que os Revolucionários franceses destruíssem o santuário e espalhassem as suas cinzas. Son of Childeric, King of the Salic Franks. Becoming ruler of the Tournai Franks in 481, he began his conquest by taking Soissons, and extending his boundaries to the Loire, after which he invaded Courtrai and Tongres. He conferred on the vanquished equal rights with the Germanic peoples, and all adopted the name of Franks. About 493 he casadomarried SantoSaint ClotildaClotilda, and when, after invoking the aid of her God during the desperate battle of Tolbiac against the Alemanni, he won the victory, he was baptized with 3,000 of his warriors at Rheims by Saint Remi, 496. His conversion helped to weld the peoples of his kingdom into that nation which was to be for ages the chief defender of western civilization and Catholicism. In 506 he defeated the Visigoth Alaric II at Poitiers, and finally completed his conquests by annexing Cologne. He displayed great talent in governing, and made Paris his capital. He founded there as a mausoleum for himself and Clotilda the church of the Apostles, later SantoSaint GenevieveGenevieve, which held his remains until the French Revolutionists destroyed the sanctuary and scattered his ashes.
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