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Encyclopedia Britannica



CHILDERIC I

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 137 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHA-CHR
CHILDERIC I . (c. 437-481), king of the Salian
Franks
 , succeeded his father Merwich (Merwing) as king about. 459. With his tribe he was established around the town of Tournai, on lands which he had received as a foederalus of the Romans, and for some time he kept the peace with his
allies
 . About 463, in conjunction with the Roman general Egidius, he fought against the Visigoths, who hoped to extend their dominion along the banks of the Loire; after the death of Egidius he assisted
Count
 
Paul
  in attempting to check an invasion of the
Saxons
 .
Paul
  having perished in the struggle, Childeric delivered
Angers
  from some
Saxons
 , followed them to the islands at the mouth of the Loire, and massacred them there. He also stopped a band of the Alamanni who wished to invade
Italy
 . These are all the facts known about him. The stories of his expulsion by the
Franks
 ; of his stay of eight years in Thuringia with King Basin and his wife Basine; of his return when a faithful servant advised him that he could safely do so by sending to him half of a piece of gold which he had brokenwith him; and of the arrival at Tournai of Queen Basine, whom he married, are entirely legendary. After the fall of the Western
Empire
  in 476 there is no doubt that Childeric regarded himself as freed from his engagements towards Rome. He died in 481 and was buried at Tournai, leaving a son Clovis (q.v.), afterwards king of the Franks. His
tomb
  was discovered in 1653, when numerous
precious
  objects, arms, jewels, coins and a ring with a figure of the king, were found.


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