About 40 results for ‘Clovis I’
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Clovis I
Clovis (c. 466 – 511) or Chlodowech 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. He was also the first Catholic King to rule over Gaul, known today as France. He was the son of Childeric I and Basina. In 481, when he was fifteen, he succeeded his father. Clovis was not only a Frankish king, he was also a Roman official. The Salian Franks were one of two Frankish tribes who were then occupying the area west of the lower Rhine, with their center in an area known as Toxandria, between the Meuse and Scheldt (in what is now the Netherlands and Belgium). Clovis's power base was to the southwest of this, around Tournai and Cambrai along the modern frontier between France and Belgium. Clovis conquered the neighboring Salian Frankish kingdoms and established himself as sole king of the Salian Franks before his death. The small church in which he was baptized stood in the vicinity of the subsequent abbey of Saint-Remi in Reims, and a statue of him being baptized by Saint Remigius can be seen there. Clovis and his wife Clotilde were buried in the St. Genevieve church (St. Pierre) in Paris, the original name of the Church was the Church of the Holy Apostles. An important part of Clovis' legacy is that he locally succeeded to the power of the Romans in 486 by beating the Gallo-Roman ruler Syagrius in the battle of Soissons. Clovis was 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. The followers of Catholicism believe that God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are three persons in one God, as opposed to the Arian Christianity, whose followers believed that God and Jesus were two completely separate beings and the Holy Spirit was not entirely separate from God but was the Power of God, a belief system common among the Goths who ruled most of Gaul at the time. In the 11th century the abbey's church was to become the Cathedral of Rheims, where most future French kings would be crowned. This act was of immense importance in the subsequent history of Western and Central Europe in general, for Clovis expanded his dominion over almost all of the old Roman province of Gaul (roughly modern France). He is considered the founder of the Merovingian dynasty which ruled the Franks for the next two centuries.
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- Artist(s):
- François-Louis Dejuinne
CLOVIS 1ER, ROI DES FRANCS (465-511)
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Date:
- 19th century
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- Artist(s):
- Pierre Paul Puget
Le baptême de Clovis
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- Artist(s):
- Jean Gigoux
Le baptême de Clovis
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- Portrayed subject:
- Baptism
- Catholicism
- Clovis I
- Paganism
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 19th century
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Esquisse pour l'histoire de Clovis
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Allegory
- Clovis I
- Cupid
- Serviceman
- Venus (mythology)
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Clovis, couronné par la Victoire, fait fleurir la religio...
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- Field(s):
- Painting
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- Portrayed subject:
- Angel
- Christian cross
- Clovis I
- Helmet
- Religion
- Serviceman
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- Date:
- 18th century
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La bataille de Vouille (histoire de Clovis)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Alaric II
- Cavalry
- Clovis I
- Vouillé, Vienne
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Le siège de Bordeaux (histoire de Clovis)
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- Portrayed subject:
- Bordeaux
- Cavalry
- City
- Clovis I
- Fortification
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- Date:
- 18th century
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Clovis à cheval, lancé au galop vers la droite
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- Field(s):
- Drawing
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- Portrayed subject:
- Clovis I
- Horse
- Horse tack
- Portrait
- Sword
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- Date:
- 17th century
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Galerie de portraits charge (titre factice)
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
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- Portrayed subject:
- Caricature
- Cat
- Clovis I
- Cobra
- Dagobert I
- Esméralda (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame)
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- Date:
- 20th century
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Souviens-toi du vase de Soissons
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
- Photography
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- Portrayed subject:
- Clovis I
- Decapitation
- Soissons
- Vase
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Soissons - Hôtel du lion rouge
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- Field(s):
- Ethnology
- Photography
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- Portrayed subject:
- Clovis I
- Decapitation
- Soissons
- Vase
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