The Franks

The Franks is about a group of loosely related Germanic barbarian tribes that from the third to eighth centuries CE would occupy, and eventually conquer and settle well-nigh of the Western Roman province of frog which would later come to be know as France, or Frankland. The Franks are portrayed in this infotainment as a plague to Rome, only when one group the Salians to the north of the Rhine River, were actually quite assimilated to Roman Culture and even ided as a modify between Rome and other invading Barbarians.The Franks were first recognized as an auxiliary people by the Romans during the reign of Merovech whom is best remembered for being the first loss leader of the Salian Franks and the original founder of the royal line. His triumph everyplace the Huns to the west and their conterminous barbarians, the Ostrogoths at Chalons, Gaul in 451 CE recognized his great power, and in addition paved the way for his son Childeric l. Childeric established ajor territorial conq uest during his reign, triumphing over the invading Visigoths to the south, and the Saxons to the southwest in aid to the Romans.His role as a Barbarian ally to the Romans played an important role in The Franks come along expanse into Gaul. Childeric continued to rein for twenty-four years until his death in 481 CE, at which time his son Clovis I took control. Clovis I was regarded as the almost influential ruler of the Salians, and the real founder of the Merovingian Dynasty the ame of which was derived from his grandfather Merovech.Clovis was a Pagan like many Franks were at his time, but is allegedly known for having converted to Orthodox (Catholic) Christianity to gain the politic support of the Gallo-Romans (Christians), though it whitethorn be argued his wife was the reason for his conversion. Clovis was considered ruthless in his tactics to gain despatch control of Gaul by murdering every potential rival Frankish leader, even those in his own family.This omination in blood shed across Gaul is what gives the Frankish people their true identity reinventing them not as barbarians, but as The Franks. Gaul becomes known as Frankia, and later France, and the legacy of a people and their Dynasty which will last for nearly two-hundred years setting the manikin for Western Europe.