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Baptism of Clovis

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The baptism of the Frankish king Clovis (presumably in 496 or 498) is a key event in the history of not only France but all of Europe. Nothing foreshadowed his brilliant destiny as the founder of the most powerful barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. The leader of the Salian Franks, who lived in what is now Belgium, Clovis seemed eternally doomed to play a secondary role in European politics during the post-Migration period. Compared to the illustrious heirs of the crumbling Roman Empire—the Visigoths, then the Ostrogoths, and the Burgundians—Clovis was a humble king without a future. He was left to resort to other means: political cunning, military talent, and ruthlessness toward his enemies. Baptism became the cornerstone of Clovis's strategy for expanding the borders of his kingdom. The overwhelming majority of the barbarians professed Arianism, a sect of Christianity deemed heretical after the Council of Nicaea. Thus, an insurmountable barrier existed between the new rulers of late Roman Europe, the barbarian kings, and their Roman subjects, preventing their fusion. Clovis was the first to see an opportunity to correct this error. An alliance with the powerful Gallo-Roman bishopric allowed the king of the Salian Franks to consolidate his power and find common ground with the people of post-Roman Gaul. During his long reign from 481 to 511, Clovis succeeded in building a new state—the Frankish Kingdom—whose emergence on former Roman lands radically altered the balance of power on the political map of Europe at the time.
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