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Chlodoric (or Chloderic) the Parricide (died c. 509) was a son of Sigobert the Lame, a Frankish king. History. According to Gregory of Tours, Chlodoric murdered his own father in order to take his kingdom of Ripuarian Franks, acting upon the instigation of Clovis I, a rival king of the Salian Franks.
Apr 27, 2022 · About Chlodéric, king of the Franks at Cologne. Chlodoric (or Chloderic) the Patricide (died c. 509) murdered his own father, Sigobert the Lame, in order to take his kingdom. Chlodoric acted upon the instigation of Clovis I a rival king of the Salian Franks.
- after circa 475
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Chlodoric the Parricide. Chlodoric murdered his own father in order to take his kingdom, acting upon the instigation of Clovis I, a rival king of the Salian Franks. Sometime after Sigobert's victory on the Visigoths in 507, C …
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Apr 29, 2021 · According to Gregory of Tours, Chloderic, was secretly talked into murdering his father Sigobert "the lame," by Clovis I, King of the Franks. But the assassination didn't go as planned, and as it turned out ...
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Discover life events, stories and photos about Roi Clodéric "le Parricide" des Francs Rhénans (0485–0509) of Empiré, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France.
According to Gregory of Tours, Chlodoric murdered his own father in order to take his kingdom of Ripuarian Franks, acting upon the instigation of Clovis I, a rival king of the Salian Franks. Sometime after Sigobert's aided Clovis's victory on the Visigoths in 507, Chlodoric sent assassins upon his father as he took a sojourn in a forest near Fulda.
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Sigobert is murdered by his son, Chlodoric, at the instigation of the Merovingian king, Clovis. Clovis then publicly accuses Chlodoric of the murder and mounts a campaign against the Salian Franks, killing both Chlodoric and another king, Chararic (see above), and absorbing Zülpich and Cologne into his kingdom.
