ABSTRACT
He passed from one stage of his power to another with complete assurance: 486-496-506. As lord over the largest part of Gaul he then did away with his Frankish fellow rulers, apparently with the full approval of the populations concerned. All his creations are shot through with crime. But one must not let every filthy wretch believe that when he is committing crimes, he is founding a state. At the time of his death Clovis is: (1) the leader of the entire Frankish nation in the narrower sense and of the Alamannic people, i.e. of contiguous Germanic populations; (2) lord over Romanic Gaul as a whole, with Paris as his cathedra regni [capital]. And all – the people, the ruler and the ruled – are or become Nicene-Orthodox. The addition of Burgundy had to be the next consequence.
