The Franks and the Anglo-Saxons were unique among the Germanic peoples in that they entered the empire as pagans and converted to Nicene ( Catholic ) Christianity directly, guided by their kings, Clovis and Æthelberht of Kent.

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.

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.

He describes the process of how a newly converted King Clovis leads a much better life than that of a Pagan.

Clotilde's victory came in 496, when Clovis converted to Christianity, baptised by Bishop Remigius of Reims on Christmas Day of that year.

* Saint Remigius of Reims ( died 533 ), who converted Clovis I, king of the Franks

Clovis converted to Christianity and put himself on good terms with the powerful Church and with his Gallo-Roman subjects.

In 496 Remigius baptized Clovis I, who was converted from paganism to Catholicism.

On Christmas Day in 498, following his victory at the Battle of Tolbiac, Clovis I converted to the orthodox faith of the Catholic Church and was baptised at Rheims.

However, the pagan Franks under their king Clovis converted to Catholicism, and thus received the considerable support of the network of Christian bishops, rapidly becoming the only effective institution of power that was more than local in extent, which strongly opposed the Arianism of the Visigothic aristocrats.

The story of the return of the sacred vessels ( most notably the Vase of Soissons ), which had been stolen from the church of Soissons testifies to the friendly relations existing between him and Clovis, King of the Franks, whom he converted to Christianity with the assistance of Saint Vedast ( Vedastus, Vaast, Waast ) and Saint Clotilde, the Burgundian princess who was wife to Clovis.

In 496, pagan Clovis adopted Catholicism.

* Clovis, first Frankish king to unite the Franks ; first barbarian king to convert to Catholicism

Another consequence was the conversion of Clovis to Catholicism after a long period of reflection ( usually historians believe his conversion dates to the year 498 or 499 ), which brought him the support of neighbouring Christians as well as that of the influential clergy.

He was called " the lame " because of a wound he had received at the Battle of Tolbiac, 496, the same year as Clovis ' conversion to Catholicism.

His kingdom was faced with a threat from the north from the Franks ; according to Peter Heather, this was his motivation for marrying Chrotilda, the daughter of Clovis.

According to Gregory of Tours ' account, Alaric was intimidated by Clovis into surrendering Syagrius to Clovis ; Gregory then adds that " the Goths are a timorous race.

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.

" Any threat of war Clovis could make would only be effective if they were neighbors ; " it is nowhere written that Syagrius was handed over in 486 or 487.

Alaric was forced by his magnates to meet Clovis in the Battle of Vouillé ( Summer 507 ) near Poitiers ; there the Goths were defeated and Alaric slain, according to Gregory of Tours, by Clovis himself.

Clovis ( ; c. 466 – 511 ) or Chlodowech ( Latin Chlodovechus ) was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the leadership from a group of royal chieftains, to rule by kings, ensuring that the kingship was held by his heirs.

It appears that he somehow gained the support of the Arvernians in the following years, for they assisted him in his defeat of the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse in the Battle of Vouillé ( 507 ) which eliminated Visigothic power in Gaul and confined the Visigoths to Hispania and Septimania ; the battle added most of Aquitaine to Clovis ' kingdom.

Clovis upbraided her ; but when Chlodomer was born, she insisted on baptising him also.

Gauguin outlived two of his children ; his favorite daughter Aline died of pneumonia and his son Clovis died of a blood infection following a hip operation.

* In Saki's short story " Clovis on Parental Responsibilities ," Mrs. Eggelby mentions this board game together with draughts ; it is also mentioned in " Reginald's Christmas Revels.

In 1956 Holly's band ( then known informally as Buddy and the Two Tones ( meaning Buddy Holly with Sonny Curtis and Don Guess ), posthumous releases refer to The Three Tunes ) recorded an album's worth of rockabilly numbers in Nashville, Tennessee for Decca ; the records were no more than mildly successful, and the band didn't hit pay dirt until 1957, when producer and recording engineer Norman Petty hosted Holly's sessions in Clovis, New Mexico.

Chlothar III ( or Chlotar, Clothar, Clotaire, Chlotochar, or Hlothar, giving rise to Lothair ; 652 – 73 ) was the eldest son of Clovis II, king of Neustria and Burgundy, and his queen Balthild.

And when they saw that their king was killed, they submitted to the dominion of Clovis, saying: " Let not the people perish further, we pray ; we are yours now.

Passengers traveled overnight on the Pennsylvania Railroad's Airway Limited from New York to Columbus ; by air from Columbus to Waynoka, Oklahoma ; by rail again from Waynoka to Clovis, New Mexico ; and by air from Clovis to Los Angeles.

Clovis sided with Godegisel, who had offered him his pleasure of tribute ; Wood observes archly that Clovis ' wife, Clotilde, whose father had been killed by Gundobad, " was not likely to encourage good relations between the Franks and the Burgundians.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

** 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 I establishes his new residence at Soissons.

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

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.