Childeric I.

About Childeric I

Childeric I was a 5th-century Frankish ruler in what is now northern France, during the period when this part of Roman Gaul became permanently disconnected from the central Roman government in 461, and the last emperor based in Italy was dethroned in 476. He is the ancestor of the early medieval Merovingian dynasty, and father of Clovis I, who would go on to acquire effective control over all or most of the small Frankish kingdoms of the time, and unite a significant part of formerly Roman Gaul under Frankish rule.