Clovis I: The Germanic Tribal Leader Who Created The Kingdom Of France
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Clovis I was a Germanic tribal leader who is considered the founder of the medieval kingdom of France. He rose from a relatively minor ruler in northern Gaul to become the most powerful leader in what is now the modern nation of France.
Clovis laid the foundation of the Merovingian dynasty the ruled Medieval France for hundreds of years after his death. Through brutal conquest and skilled diplomacy, he is remembered as one of the most powerful rulers in post-Roman Western Europe.
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We had this bad habit to dismiss completely what happened in Europe between the fall of the Roman empire and the renaissance, as a dark time, not worthy of the History books. I'm glad to see that this changed in the past years, and I feel like all those kings are finally given credit for what they did. Most of them put on the foudations of all modern countries.
Clovis was the exception not rule
Most of them suck
True. And we do that much more to the rest of the world.
The real conan!
I didn’t realize the Franks played such a preeminent role as mercenaries in Roman Gaul before the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The Romans laid the foundations for the later kingdom of France by using the Franks as soldiers in their army.
They got a taste of the riches, and could't keep away. Yet they formed only a thin upper class, so they slowly assimilated to the majority, whose langauge they adopted, though with their accent - like the vowel sounds for eu & the lone u (jeu, tu) in French are Germanic vowels, German writes them ö & ü. Northern and Southern France still have different accents, division going almost along that line which separated Aquitania from that land of Syagrius, was it Neustria in Charlmagne's time. That dialect difference shows roughly the area which the Franks conquered, where they assimilated. Southern French accentes, like Provenc(s)al, resemble much more other Romance languages, like Italian, Catalonian & Portuguese.
Spanish has its own specialities separating it from the majority of the Romance languages. I wouldn't be surprised if it comes from an accented Latin of Navarra & Burgos of Northern Castilia near the Basque country, where Basques earlier lived - so their accent likely affected the early Castilian Spanish, it seems and sounds. Portuguese, Southern Spanish and Catalonian are closer to the most Romance languages, which is how I think how the Celto-Latin was without influences from other languages. Though Andalusian has some Arabic and maybe Berber affects from the Maurs who live there the longest.
I said this to show a general line or pattern how I think Latin changed to the modern languages in these areas where the Celts were dominant before the romans came, and how other languages present affected some very unique developements in Spanish and French. Spain was more complex than pre-Roman Gaulle (Gallia): there were Celts in Spain (Hispania), but a lot of other nations too, so it was likely easier for Rome to win them nation by nation, and take advantage of their quarrels.
England was formed from very similar components, but in different proportions: much less Latin/Romance influence, until the Normans came. Yet there it a Germanic language which got a lot of accent from the Romano-Celtic language(s) - whereas in France it was the Celto-Roman (=Gallo-Roman) language that prevailed, with Germanic influence in the accent.
Both English and French have also a pre-Celtic substratum in them, strongly linking them genetically with the Basques, the oldest West-Europeans remaining, besides Neanderthals and some others who have left just very little in the genes of Western Europe. They (mainly Basque-related Western Europeans) had been first Celticized, then Romanized. And yet in the Basque country their language and culture live even today.
Also Germans in general since they would later become the Holy Roman Empire (although by title only).
the franks and the visigoths kept things together in western europe and italy for a couple hundred years after rome fell
Well yes, but the Franks mostly assimilated to the pre existing Gallo-Roman culture that was there so there was certainly lots of Roman influence on the kingdom of France
The Romans laid the foundations of EVERYTHING in modern politics.
Most people don't know that Clovis I tomb with his body is still intact in between Saint-Etienne-du-Mont Church and Henri-IV in France.
Its unmarked and unknown which specific flagstone marks his grave but his tomb is there.
The Casket Sarcophagus is meant as a tribute to him which is presented to the public.
I would love to tour the towns and villages of medieval France and be learning French at the same time.
Well, only Paris region was speaking French at that time.
They spoke Frankish,not French,Frankish is germanic and French didn’t even existed in the time of Clovis,it was a proto-romance language very close to Latin
And then they say it was just dark after the Western Roman Empire fell. Nice vid
Dark in comparison to pre-christian Europe which made some of the greatest advances in human history.
@@savvageorge The Mediterranean did those advancements the Northen Barbarians did nothing. And the whole of Antiquity was a larger time period than the Middle-Ages so it's no wonder why it had a larger frame of achievements and not only that but the period is also extremely romanticized to the point of fantasy.
That’s actually out of vogue. It’s more commonly referred to as The Middle Ages these days, divided into three periods called the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages.
It was dark but not that dark
@@AbsurdistAgent Only among a few uptight academics. Dark Ages is still the preferred term for the early Middle Ages among most.
This is why I named my cat Clovis.
Thank You for creating and posting this.
Nice! Another great video. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for your work
Clovis is my 43rd great grandfather
That's crazy.. just found out I am a descendant also. Great to learn your lineage!
I'm also a descendant of Clovis. He can be found in my family tree.
I just recently found out I'm descended from him as well! :)
How do you know this? Which tests did you make?
You did an amazing job
I appreciate these videos on the less well known figures of early post-Roman Europe. Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
The franks are well known, just kinds forgotten, since no one talks about it
could you tell me what song you played in the first ten seconds it was lovely! just like your videos and channel keep it up
Good vid, brother; keep it up :)
the Frankish empire was more important than we expected.
The romans: THEY ARE BArBaRians!
Central Europe: lets light this firecracker!
Brought about the most rapid growth in mankinds history
I have a project on this and this video really helped me! Thank youuu
Pas de chance pour toi, si tu as répété dans ta vidéo toutes les âneries racontées dans cette vidéo.
I'm so high bois
On what?
OH REALlY?!!?! FUcking JUnkiee!!
My name amanda boiari
Congratulations
So fucking baked boys
Clovis was really called Hlodowig in Frankish, Chlodovechus in Latin - Clovis was then likely his Gallo-Roman name that he adopted after conquering Gallia. Had to Wiki it, because all the other Germanic names here, be it Visigoths or Saxons etc., have that -ic (-ik) in the end of their names, and Latin favours the -(u)s in the end of names, sometimes remaining in French names: Charles, Georges - C/Karl being the Germanic version. Maybe place names like Tours, Lourdes have it too, though now it could be difficult to say, do the place names come from the French plural, or the Latin masculine singular -us.
Based on how the Franks and Latin wrote his name, I guess it had that kh/ch sound in the end like LoCH Ness in Scottish, and like German does even now the -ig ending is said ilke -ikh/ch in the Standard German. And the vowel before it was somewhere between i & e, based on how Latin wrote it: Chlodovechus - ending the same way as his grandfather's name, Merovech(us), where the Dynasty gets its name: Merovingians. Not far from 'Merovic', which would rhyme with all the famous Germanic names we now from the history: Alaric, Eric … the way also his father is written Childeric, that Ch being Kh~H again: like Clovis=Chlodovechus=Hlodowig, and I've read it also as Clodovic in some sources, a typical form of the Germanic names of the Migration Era.
Not much study would have been needed of the Romans to notice the very common -ic or -ig~ich in the end of Germanic names. Instead of just adding the Latin -us ending (lengthening it in vain), they could've just replaced the -ic with it. So. resulting like Alarus, Alarius, Erus, Erius - Clodovus, Clodovius. Or maybe they thought it would've been too Roman, they wanted to keep the -ic/ich there. Maybe out of respect - or for a warning: that's a 'nomen (name) Germanicus' :)
@Antonio Perales del Hierro
Clovis the v is easily close to w, which is close to Latin u sound, spelled ou in French. The o sound has changed to the Latin U sound (like in pull) in many languages - compare oo in English.
All it really needs, is to drop the C in the beginning. These things happen in languages over centuries, sound drops here, another there.
So we get to Louis. Which in Modern French is said the same as Louie. You know how many single consonant are not pronounced in the end of a word? Except when Louis is followd by a word starting in a vowel, then Louis sounds like Louiz. Like Louis Ardent.
So Clodovig (to Clodvig? - see German Ludwig, said like 'Loodvig/k' ) to Chlovis to Lovis/Lowis, to Louis to Louie - about
Think how Wilhelm became Bill.
Or how Georgius, Georgips, maybe Gregorios first in now George in English. The spelling shows it was about the hard G of get first, now the soft as gem. So like 'Jordg/Jor(d)j'.
@@timomastosalo Chlodovech (Clovis) is the root for the French Louis, German Ludwig and Dutch Lodewijk (in some dialects pronounced as Lodewic).
Actually, Ansbertus married and produced a son with a female Merovingian. St. Arnulf of Metz is their grandson through the father - Arnoald the Bishop. Then Ansegisel (of Landen) had King Clovis 3rd. We are tied to the Merovingian family tree.
Ah, I see Clovis nailed the true CK2 endgame of murdering entire family lines.
Tout est faux, il doit détester les francs, voire les français, pour raconter de telles inepties !
Bon, il doit juste être anglais pour avoir été formaté à détester les francs qui refusaient de soumettre.
(Franc=libre)
I would even say he created germany and france. The francish kingdom evolved when the franks started to beat and occupy all other germanic kingdoms around them. They have beaten the visigoths, allemans, thuringians, saxons etc.. Of the dominant francish kingdom evolved france and germany after the death of charles the great. In a way even belgium, netherlands, luxemburg, switzerland, austria.
the franks were a germanic tribe but with clovis they mixed with gallo roman and became the french, they conquered land of other germanic tribes later and when the empire was divided those became the germans
Not really, we can talk of Germany when the Holy Roman Germanic Empire was founded by a Saxon dynasty. The Franks never really ruled Germany (or its historical variations)
@Galva Tron Germanic doesn't mean German, saying that is as stupid as saying all the Celts are Irish.
The Franks fusionned with the Gallo-Romans very early, even before the collapse of the Roman Empire (as the video partially explains).
@Galva Tron Celts are not Irish, Celts is an ethnic group that includes the Irish.
And the French language is Romance not Gaelic. The Frankish kings lived in France and settled in Gauls even before the collapse of the Roman empire, most of them (including Charlemagne's father) are burried in Saint-Denis, near Paris.
Charlemagne is burried in Aaachen, a city he chose as a capital because it's was more convenient to conquer and submit the Saxons and the other Germanic tribes. It is simple the heart of the Frankish kingdom is situated in three cities : Soisson, Reims, Paris.
@@volcanares9620 Only the western Franks adopted the Romance language of the subjugated Gallo Romans. The Eastern Franks remained German. They were the basis of the Regnum Francorum Orientalium (Kingdom of the East Franks), then Regnum Teutonicum (Kingdom of the Germans), then Holy Roman Empire.
great vid! Will you follow up on Charlemagne?
Good vidéo but you didnt stress how important was the arianism heresy back then. The fact that the Franks and the Gallo-Romans were the two people that resisted Arianism was the key factor that created Francia and started tu fusion of the two people.
Ton correcteur a remplacé un mot mdrrr. 🙃
Perfect video!!!!!
Germanic Tribes! Germanic Tribes everywhere!
7:00 Gundobad? Did JRR Tolkien get the idea for the name of the place in Middle Earth from this?
till, crusader kings 2 is a spot on simulator of that era...
lov it
Very informative and easy to follow. thankyou.
6:16 It says EVAN in the book. What does that mean? Or what is it referring to?
evangelium ? maybe. you can see the "GEL" under "EVAN"
What is the chant in the beginning of the video?
Did the Franks slowly begin to absorb Latin? Is that how the French language came about?
The Franks are what now are the Dutch and Flemish people in the Netherlands and Belgium, French people are largely descendant of Gauls (Celtic tribes) and are not Franks.
@@Weda01 Well he was talking about the language and as far as I understood it, french is basically gallo-romance (latin spoken and influenced by gaullish) and then influenced by the frankish language both in phonology and vocabulary. It kinda make sense since spoken french sound really different from others romance language and if i'm right 13% of the loanwords in french come from the frankish language.
@@Weda01 What about the French royals, were they descended from Franks?
@@SirBojo4 I know that, my explanation was more towards the "Did the Franks slowly begin to absorb Latin?" part which comes across that he/she thinks the French and Franks are the same people.
@@justinnamuco9096 Yes, they are descendant of Hugh Capet just like the British,Spanish and Belgian royals.
What's the chant in the beginning called?
do a skenderbeg he defended against the ottoman empire
Im the last born with this name in my family.... boii most definitely.... the hid in lebanon moutains that touched the sea help there by the french army to escape... im in Australia so guess what we made it to safety and we r stil here
I'm doing a research paper in my Middle Ages class so this video will be a good reference in case if I forget!
"une référence" ?
Il a inventé les 2/3 de ce qu'il raconte !
Pas de chance pour toi !
Intro music?
I like his campaigns
What playlist?
what do you know about the belgea
100% likes, thats preety good
Ty
I am a direct descendent of
King Childric 1st (Rome)
King Clovis
The Visigoths
And so much more
I am looking to interview
history is fascinating! Rollo would bump into the Frankish empires and converted. His descendant William the Conqueror established the Norman kingdom in England. England would establish the Thirteen Colonies and become the United States.
So, it started in where Belgium is now?
Belgium?
@Lord Verus
I know.
But I mean........nothing happens in Belgium. Nothing.
But Europe started there.
@@robinsinpost Yeah the shit version of Europe
Yes
Clovis = Chlodwig
Battle of Tolbiac = Schlacht von Zülpich
Tribal leader? His father Childeric was a king.
they were still tribal, he ruled the frankish tribe
@Otto whoops.. i meant "a" frankish tribe, which is still wrong anyways. It should be "he ruled a city with frankish inhabitants, but they still were tribal"
The was no end in the roman empire. Still in control
I can trace my line back to The Frank's and Attila as well as many others lol
Who are the Hun?
BARBARIC
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45th cousin (on my YDNA line) once removed. Daughter produced a son with Ansegisel (of Landen). King Clovis 3rd later had two competing illegitimate sons. I am from the youngest surviving YDNA line, the oldest line died out through Emperor Charlemagne. Childebrand 1st of Perracy YDNA line goes to Count Humbert 1st of Savoy (origin of the Savoy dynasty). There is a direct line between the Nibelungids and Savoy dynasty. So, yes we (Savoy dynasty) carry their DNA through a maternal connection. Mine end at one of the sons of King Victor Amadeus 3rd through an illegitimate connection.
Wonderful video, if you like this content go listen Hardcore History's "Thor's angel".
what did the romans ever do for us?
@The March What? Also, go watch the movie "The Life of Brian" to get the reference.
@Wednesday's Child A good bit of it but hardly the "entire". More of our way of way stems from the Anglo-Saxons, Britons, Norse, and Normans than the Romans. I would say pretty much all of them contributed in some way.
Where is the French version of this?
*_FRANCE TRIGGERED_*
I can do this. Hold my beer.
"Ale-man-eye"
It's pronounced _"Ale-manny"_
Lost it at "The-otter-rick"
It's *Theo-door-ick*
@Nikolas Tyr In multiple languages, that's te pronunciation..
1:50 Romulus Augustus was NOT the last Roman Emperor. He was but an usurper. Julius Nepos was the last one.
Bah, tu as tout faux , car bien qu'il ne régna pas longtemps, car destitué par Odoacre, Romulus Augustus, dit Augustulus, fut bien le dernier empereur d'occident !
En fait, il n'y avait pas que Julius Nepos qui était prétendant, tous les généraux germains christianisés et autres convoitaient la Place !
D'où le fait que que l'entourage du jeune Augustulus proposèrent aux à des germains saliens de créer une fédération franque afin de protéger la Gaule dite gallo-romaine des ambitions germaniques.
Le meurtre du Roi Louis mit fin au règne des dynasties franques, pour le seul bénéfice de ces diaboliques germains anglo-saxons gothiques, aidés de traitres francs !
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amazing
like the comment so my social studies teacher can see it
Clovis
If you look ...lots of these old kings are carrying a spear . That spear has a clovis point . Clovis first;)
If you see at the fall of the Vandal kingdom and later on the Visigothic kingdom, both had very small armies for being so big for even after conversion to Christianity they still kept laws seperating the Germanic upper class from the Roman serfs. Clovis's conversion, bishop councils and more importantly inter-marriage laws after his victory at Soissons helped to the homogenisation of the two groups leading to the creation of France in all levels, from language to nation. The worst mistake in human history
Toi, tu es drôle, mais ridicule !
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Most of them were living with romans or close to them
my grandfather
brother tribe fought brother tribe; those wily romans did it again ;)
Wasn't Clovis already christian before he converted to Catholicism?
No, he was contacted by the church to conquér arianius christians, he was pagan
Yes, briefly he was Arian Christian. Rather than the Trinity, they believed Christ was separate and subordinate to the Father.
His son, Pepin, bad boy, Raymond the short hat, a son name, Charles, the great I’m named after Divine Charles Raymond as my name I stand eight
Normandy
The real conan!
one sixty-est of a minute.
If i can help.me i can help u
So France is "made in Germany"?
Don't hate me I love France and admire the French history
Netherlands, cuz thats where the Franks came from
Western Europe is basically germanic barbarians mixed with roman law and customs
2:22 What was Jesus doing there?
Not all goths were the same
And they were fighting the huns
The franks were the origin of the benelux, germany and france, not just france (the land conquered by the franks)
Germany was not founded by the Franks but by a Saxon dynasty that founded the Holy Roman Empire. The Franks never ruled Germany or its variations.
Boulangiste : The Franken became the mightiest tribe of those tribes who are now the german nation. Our tribes exist still now, but we now have no more chiefs and it is no more important to which tribe you belong. The Franken also conquered those part of the roman empire which is now france. Of course the frankish conquerors and settlers had been a minority, nobility and non- noble upperclass, while lower and most of middleclass had been colonial/provincial ,roman?'- celtic mixed people. When in 843 at Verdun the frankish empire was splitted, in all parts still frankish/ carolingian kings ( no german or french kings) ruled. Now in eastern frankish empire the last descendant of Karl dem Großen died, and the dukes and bishops elected Konrad I as new king. Why not the western frankish king? The east frankish mighty men noticed: We do not understand the westfrankish nobles, they no more speak germanic, they speak romanic! And also when in 986? Ludwig Capet was elected new king in western frankish empire the nobles there noticed, in eastern frankish empire they still speak germanic, we do not understand them. So in the 10th century the frankish empire finally split, and was never united (both Napoleon and Hitler failed) again. The first saxon king in germany was in 919 Heinrich I, but he was not the founder of germany, only the first non frankish king here. What remained? In german language france is still called Frankreich, in france Germany is called Allemagne, after my tribe the Alemannen. And in french language there are some words of germanic orgin, for example guerre once was wehr. Si vous etes francais, au revoir et beaucoup des belles jours!
No Benelux , Germany and all those artificial shit were created in the XIX century ! France exist since 496 ...Stop revisionism buddy !
@@rachelsombo9045 Your imagination ! All these languages are from Proto-Germanic. From the 5th to the 9th century, the language is referred as '' old dutch '' ! In the Rhineland regions , is was Germanic dialects. No France , here yet !
You deserve to be much bigger than you are!
Uncle frank n his nose
After about a year of research, I found that apparently Antenor is an (obviously) distant relative... and it is rumored that he married Sarah Demaris..who was supposedly one of Jesus & Mary Magdalene's offspring... & supposedly her & Antenor's descendants became the Merovingian Kings... I'd love to think this story is true...
Alors oui, il y a eu des recherches sionistes sur ce sujet, mais c'était pour fabriquer des faux, afin de pouvoir raconter des conneries sur l'existence d'un Jésus, laissant croire qu'ils s'agirait de Dieu !
Tu sais, en pays cathare, il a aussi une histoire qui indiquerait que les Plantagenet seraient des descendants du Christ...
Ils ont été les pires criminels en tant que rois d'Angleterre, et les plus sataniques des papes !
Faut-il rappeler l'existence passée des Tudor ?
Faut-il rappeler que ces diaboliques wisigoth avaient saccagé Rome et le Vatican à plusieurs reprises, et dans différents siècles.
Il y a eu d'innombrables faux papes, ou usurpateurs sur le trône de Saint -Pierre !
Donc oui, l'Église et le Vatican sont combattus et infiltrés par le Mal depuis leur fondation.
Cela t'étonnerait-il vraiment.
Au-delà du bâtiment et de l'Institution matérielle, qui reste à dimension humaine, l'Église c'est d'abord la communion de la foi !
Look up Raymond family Dynasty that’s my family I’m Frank
I went to war in prison, and with my self I’m the last in my tree
I am a Divine CR spiritual warrior signed up from the beginning of time to come back and make things equal. I’m named after king Charlemagne Charles, the great Clovis one also king Louis all Raymond.
Im franch
My last name is boiari
And here's the punchline to associate France and the Merovingian to history, I just luv using French to curse with...
I am french it's most likely pronounced Shilderic
French not Frank
No such thing as "catholic christian" in the early middle ages
This is a (anachronic) precision to distinguish them from arianist (and other) christian groups.
Of course at this time, what became later "orthodox" and "catholic" were a single united church.
Sigibert The Lame🤦🏼♂️😂
I went to school with aleric and his brothers
Kingdom of soissons: 😒
Alright let’s me make something clear, Frankish are the old French people.
Frank and gallo-roman mixed.
So stop with your old Dutch-belgium angry noise.
And accept that Gaul is the home of all country.
“Kingdom of the Franks “and “kingdom of France “ are not exactly the same.
Francia = France / Regnum Francorum = Regnum Franciae. The Papal archives are clear about that. Only germans who have no history as unified people and anglo saxon point of view tried to secede this part of our history. By example Philippe Augustus was still King of the Franks before changing the title in King of France.
The only thing France of today has left of he Franks is the name of their country and just got it because their kings were Franks, you can compare it to the time when Germany called themselves the Holy Roman Empire while nothing about them was Roman. The real descendants of the Franks today are the Dutch/Belgians (Flemish) while the French are largely descendant of Gaulish Celtic tribes along with some Norman descendants here and there.
@@thibaultletricheur1884 From the 5th century to the 9th century, the language is referred as '' old dutch'' , where in the Rhineland , it was Germanic dialects ! All these languages's roots were from Proto-Germanic . Nothing ''French'' here !
@@Weda01 the north of france the moselle and franks not normandy
This was a serious mistake
ironically "frank" means free, not if The Romans had you working...
At the time a man would have went after honorable death than betray themselves; I doubt the Viking style consolidation was as murderous or treacherous as portrayed.
Please read the infamous Ivarr Ragnarsson and his brother Ubbe, both Viking berserkers, the atrocities inflicted on the population of East Anglia !
this is not truthful , but has signicant literary problems. 1" deep and 666 ft. wide.
How historie lies, Slavonic face IS no alaman no german
Kingdom of Franks....?
Kingdom of Portugal? Kingdom of Scotland? Kingdom of Italy? etc. etc. Good times, right Rohit? Let's just name kingdoms all day, without any context. That should make for a fun afternoon.
@@gregorixo Not sure what you're pointing at, but
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francia
no context?
@@bradenglass4347 There was no French nation and identity when Clovis I formed the kingdom.
They were a Germanic people who spoke a Germanic language, and ruled a Gallic population among others
France as a realm came to be arguably in the time of Philip Augustus.
And as a national identity, after the Hundred Years War
@@rohitrai6187 oh I see what you're saying. Clovis merely laid groundwork alongside Charlemagne.
History: the story of maniac kings who do everything to be in the power, and the stupid mass who follow them.
Are you stupid or what?
He created France and germany
no bismark or the prussian created germany ! clovis or the franks created frankreich !
@@roms4154 Bismark didn't create Germany ! The regions were already there ! He unified them ..same with Alfred the Great, he unified the Anglo-Saxons smaller kingdoms/regions..., later, defeating the Vikings ! Clovis region was the Netherlands and Belgium, speaking a language referred as ''Old Dutch'' which was coming from the main Proto-Germanic language. You had Frankreich, Frankrijk, Frankrig and Frankrike ! Germany, Netherlands, Danish, Sweden and Norway.