Clovis I (ruled 481-511), converted to Christianity at the instigation of his wife Clotilde. He established a regime that ruled much of France by the time of his death, and is considered to be the founder of the Merovingian dynasty which ruled the Franks for the next two hundred years.
First king of the Franks. He converted to Christianity.
First king of the Franks. He converted to Christianity.
As far as we know, the first King of the Franks to convert to Christianity was Clovis I who converted at the request of his wife who was already Christian. He is supposed to have been baptized on Christmas Day, 496.
Clovis was the first important non-Roman king to convert to Christianity.
Clovis was the first king of the Franks to conquer large areas.
King of the Franks.
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Well, he was the first king of France to become Catholic.
A:On the European mainland, it was largely Charlemagne who converted the Saxon tribes. Kathleen Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church, said, "Charlemagne converted whole tribes by the sword." In the year 782, the Frankish king Charlemagne reputedly beheaded forty-five hundred Saxons who resisted his campaign of forced conversion to Christianity. In 800, the Pope rewarded Charlemagne in Rome, crowning him as Holy Roman Emperor.
Because he was our first king, our first Christian king and the one to convert Hungarians to Christianity. All very popular deeds for the catholic church.
King Ezana was the king of the Axum Empire from 330-356 A.D. He was the first axumite ruler to convert to Christianity and conquered the kingdom of Nubia in about 350 A.D.