When Alaric II was killed fighting Clovis I, king of the Franks, in the Battle of Vouillé ( 507 ), his kingdom fell into disarray.

The kingdom of Alamannia between Strasbourg and Augsburg lasted until 496, when the Alemanni were conquered by Clovis I at the Battle of Tolbiac.

The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.

The " land of Francia ," from which France gets its name, had high points of expansion under kings Clovis I and Charlemagne.

After the death of the Frankish king Clovis I in 511, his four sons partitioned his kingdom including Austrasia.

The Frankish king Clovis I united most of Gaul under his rule in the late 5th century, setting the stage for Frankish dominance in the region for hundreds of years.

In 486, Clovis I, leader of the Salian Franks, defeated Syagrius at Soissons and subsequently united most of northern and central Gaul under his rule.

Gregory of Tours mentions a Frankish sub-king Rigomer, who was killed by King Clovis I in his campaign to unite the Frankish territories.

The Merovingian dynasty was founded by Childeric I ( c. 457 – 481 ) the son of Merovech, leader of the Salian Franks, but it was his famous son Clovis I ( 481 – 511 ) who united all of Gaul under Merovingian rule.

Childeric's son Clovis I ( 481 – 511 ) went on to unite most of Gaul north of the Loire under his control around 486, when he defeated Syagrius, the Roman ruler in those parts.

* Remigius, Bishop of Reims who baptized Clovis I

* 511 – King Clovis I dies at Paris ( Lutetia ) and is buried in the Abbey of St. Genevieve.

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, barbarian tribes were converted to Arian Christianity or Catholicism ; Clovis I, king of the Franks, was the first important barbarian ruler to convert to Catholicism rather than Arianism, allying himself with the papacy.

Later, Clovis I liberated captives after Genevieve urged him to do so.

These Saxons became subjects of Clovis I late in the fifth century.

Queen Clotilde, wife of King Clovis I | Clovis, is shown training her three young children the art of hurling the ax in order to avenge the death of her father

Extending their authority into Hispania at the expense of the Suevi and Vandals, their rule in Gaul was ended by the Franks under Clovis I at the Battle of Vouillé in 507.

However, in 507, the Franks under Clovis I defeated the Visigoths in the Vouillé and wrested control of Aquitaine.

* Clovis I, ( c. 466 – 511 ), first sole King of the Franks

* 481: Clovis I becomes king of the Western Franks upon the death of Childeric I.

* 491: King Clovis I defeats and subjugates the Kingdom of Thuringia in Germany.

* 494: Northern Gaul is united under Frankish King Clovis I, founder of the Merovingian dynasty.

Older storefronts on Clovis Avenue, the main street running through town, have been restored and new buildings have been designed with facades that resemble those found in the early 20th century.

The historic center, with its fresh new look, has been reborn as " Old Town Clovis.

In addition, it allowed Clovis to undertake conquests and crusades to Christianize his new territories or expunge Arianism, considered a heresy by the clergy.

In 1916 Brazil enacted its civil code ( project of Clovis Bevilacqua, after rejecting the project by Teixeira de Freitas that was translated by the Argentines to prepare their project ), that entered into effect in 1917 ( in 2002, the Brazilian Civil Code was replaced by a new text ).

For example, the Folsom point and Clovis point traditions ( collectively known as the fluted points ) are associated with Paleo Indians, some of the first people to colonize the new world ( see Models of migration to the New World ).

Hincmar, adroitly combined the discovery of these two vials with their unique, unearthly fragrance, the Legend of the Baptism of the Moribund Pagan and the historical memory that St. Remigius had baptized Clovis into a new Legend identifying one of these vials as the actual vial of Chrism used at the baptism of Clovis to create the new Legend of the Sainte Ampoule, ( i. e., that the Chrism used by Remigius when he baptized Clovis was miraculously supplied by heaven itself ) which Hincmar then used to strengthen his claim that his own archepiscopal see of Reims — as the possessor of this heavenly sent Chrism — should therefore be recognized as the divinely chosen site for all subsequent sacre / anointings of French kings.

In the prologue after it is slain by Clovis, it revives into a new form ( Titan ) and flees to the kingdom of Raxis.

However, Wolfram points out that at the time " Clovis got no farther than the Seine ; only after several more years did the Franks succeed in occupying the rest of the Gallo-Roman buffer state north of the Loire.

Nor was it the loss of the royal treasury at Toulouse, which Gregory of Tours writes Clovis took into his possession.

Holly then hired Norman Petty as manager, and the band began recording at Petty's studios in Clovis, New Mexico.

Clovis then recorded a succession of victories against other Germanic tribes such as the Alamanni at Tolbiac.

He won the Battle of Tolbiac against the Alemanni in 496, at which time, according to Gregory of Tours, Clovis adopted his wife Clotilda's Catholic ( i. e. Nicene ) Christian faith.

Saint Martin's monastery benefited from its inception, at the very start of the 6th century from patronage and support from the Frankish king, Clovis, which increased considerably the influence of the saint, the abbey and the city in Gaul.

** Surgeons at the Hôpital de la Pitié, Paris, perform Europe's first heart transplant, on Clovis Roblain.

* Battle of Tolbiac: King Clovis I defeats the Alamanni at Zülpich ( Germany ).

* December 25 – Clovis I is baptized into the Catholic faith at Rheims, by Saint Remigius.

* November 27 – King Clovis I dies at Paris ( Lutetia ) at age 45 and is buried in the Abbey of St. Genevieve.

Clovis converted to Catholicism ; at the instigation of his wife, Clotilde, a Burgundian Gothic princess who was a Catholic in spite of the Arianism which surrounded her at court.

In this context, Clovis was baptized at Rheims around 496 AD.

Clovis had previously married the Catholic Burgundian princess Clotilde ( later canonized as St. Clotilde ), and, according to Gregory of Tours, as a result of his victory at Tolbiac ( traditionally set in 496 ), he converted to her Catholic faith.

Clovis was baptised at Rheims on Christmas Day 496, by Saint Remigius.

Though he fought a battle at Dijon in the year 500, Clovis did not successfully subdue the Burgundian kingdom.

The Chatti eventually became a branch of the much larger neighboring Franks and were incorporated in the kingdom of Clovis I, probably with the Ripuarians, at the beginning of the 6th century.

One of the tools found is of a type associated with the Clovis culture, and tools from this cultural period date back at least 11, 500 years.