Original: Frassetto, Michael, Encyclopedia of barbarian Europe, (ABC-CLIO, 2003), 126 Clovis was converted to Western Christianity, as opposed to the Arian Christianity common among the Germanic peoples at the time, at the instigation of his wife, Clotilda, a Burgundian.
Simplified: Clovis converted to Catholicism, as opposed to the Arian Christianity that was common among Germanic peoples, because his wife, the Burgundian Clotilde, was a Catholic.