Clodius I De Gaul
395-447
Born: Westfalen, Germany
Died: Amiens, Somme, Picardie, France
Clodio<div>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<div>Jump to: navigation, search</div><!-- start content --><p><strong>Chlodio</strong><sup>[1]</sup> was a king of the Salian Franks from the Merovingian dynasty. He was known as a Long-Haired King and lived at a place on the Thuringian border called Dispargum. From there he invaded the Roman Empire in 428 and settled in Northern Gaul, where already other groups of Salians were settled. Although he was attacked by Romans he was able to maintain his position and 3 years later in 431 he extended his kingdom down south to the Somme River. In 448, 20 years after his reign began Chlodio was defeated at an unidentified place called Vicus Helena by Flavius Aëtius, the commander of the Roman Army in Gaul.</p><p>Like all Merovingian kings Chlodio had long hair as a ritual custom. His successor may have been Merovech, after whom the dynasty was named 'Merovingian'. One legend has it that his father was Pharamond. The sources on Chlodio's history are Gregory of Tours and Sidonius Apollinaris.</p><p></p><span> </span> <span>Sources</span><ul><li>Gregory of Tours, Historiën. </li><li>Sidonius Apollinaris, Loeb Classical Edition. </li></ul><p></p><span> </span> <span>Note</span><div><ol><li><strong>^</strong> Variations in the spelling in the name of "Chlodio" include Cloio, Clodio, Clodius, Chlogio. This is normal for barbarian names in Roman texts. </li></ol></div><span style="font-weight: normal; float: right; width: 6em; text-align: right; cssfloat: right">[hide]</span> <div style="float: ; width: 6em; text-align: "><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: xx-small; background: #bfd7ff; white-space: nowrap; border-style: none; padding: 0px"><span style="background: #bfd7ff; border-style: none">v</span> <font size="1"><span style="font-size: 80%">•</span> </font><span style="background: #bfd7ff; color: #002bb8; border-style: none">d</span> <font size="1"><span style="font-size: 80%">•</span> </font><span style="background: #bfd7ff; color: #002bb8; border-style: none">e</span></div></div><span style="font-size: 110%">Merovingian monarchs</span> <div style="padding-right: 0.25em; padding-: 0.25em; padding-bottom: 0em; padding-: 0em"><div>Childeric I (457–481) • Clovis I (481–511) • Childebert I (511–558) • Chlodomer (511–524) • Theuderic I (511–533) • Theudebert I (533–548) • Theudebald (548–555) • Chlothar I the Old (511–561) • Charibert I (561–567) • Guntram (561–592) • Sigebert I (561–575) • Childebert II (575–595) • Theudebert II (595–612) • Theuderic II (612–613) • Sigebert II (613) • Chilperic I (561–584) • Chlothar II the Great (584–623) • Dagobert I (623–634) • Charibert II (629–632) • Chilperic (632) • Sigebert III (634–656) • Childebert the Adopted (656–661) • Clovis II (639–657) • Chlothar III (657–673) • Childeric II (662–675) • Theuderic III (675–691) • Dagobert II (675–679) • Clovis IV (691–695) • Childebert III the Just (695–711) • Dagobert III (711–715) • Chilperic II (715–721) • Chlothar IV (717–720) • Theuderic IV (721–737) • Childeric III (743–751)</div></div><div><span></span></div><!-- NewPP limit report Preprocessor node count: 361/1000000 Post-expand include size: 10508/2048000 bytes Template argument size: 5370/2048000 bytes Expensive parser function count: 0/500 --><!-- Saved in parser cache with key enwiki:pcache:idhash:748738-0!1!0!default!!en!2 and timestamp 20080711071231 --><div>Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodio"</div><div><div>Categories: <span>Merovingian dynasty</span> | <span>Frankish kings</span> | <span>5th century people</span></div></div></div>