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Childeric I
Merovingian king
Childeric I (died 481/482) was the king of the Salian Franks, one of the first of the Merovingians and the father of Clovis I.
The Salian Franks, in treaty with the Roman Empire, had settled in Belgica Secunda, between the Meuse and Somme rivers, making their capital at Tournai. Childericās role as a barbarian ally of the Romans was important. He helped the Roman military commander Aegidius to repel the Visigoths near OrlĆ©ans (463); at the request of Aegidiusā successor, Count Paulus, he attacked the Visigoths again in 469. Soon afterward he cleared Anglo-Saxon pirates from the district southwest of OrlĆ©ans around Angers. Childericās tomb at Tournai was discovered in 1653.
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