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How Did Clovis Influence Rome

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In 481, Clovis I, the founding father of the Merovingian dynasty, assumed the throne at the age of fifteen when his father Childeric, king of the Salian Franks, passed away. Clovis I conquered Gaul after the Western Roman Empire had fallen, starting a family dynasty called the Merovingian dynasty, named after Clovis I grandfather, Merovech. Gaul was completely under Clovis I’s control when he had Syagrius, the last Roman governor of Gaul, beheaded after he fled from the battle of Soissons in 486 that he lost to Clovis I. In less than a year, Clovis had taken the cities of Rouen, Reims, and Paris, and by 491, he was in control of the entire west. By this time, Clovis had also ordered the assassination of two Frankish kings that were his allies,

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