Clovis I
Clovis (reconstructed Frankish: "
*Hlōdowig"; 466 – 27 November 511) was the first king of the Franks to unite all of the Frankish tribes under one ruler, changing the form of leadership from a group of royal chieftains to rule by a single king and ensuring that the kingship was passed down to his heirs.
He is considered to have been the founder of the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Frankish kingdom for the next two centuries.
Clovis succeeding his father, Childeric I, as king of the Salian Franks in 481, ruling in an area extending from what is now the southern Netherlands to northern France, then Gallia Belgica (northern Gaul).
He took control of a rump state of the Western Roman Empire controlled at the Battle of Soissons (486), and by the time of his death in either 511 or 513, he had also conquered smaller Frankish kingdoms towards the northeast, the Alemanni to the east, and Visigothic kingdom of Aquitania to the south.
Clovis is important in the historiography of France as "the first king of what would become France".
Clovis is also significant due to his conversion to Catholicism in 496, largely at the behest of his wife, Clotilde, who would later be venerated as a saint for this act, celebrated today in both the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church.
Clovis was baptized on Christmas Day in 508.
The adoption by Clovis of Catholicism (as opposed to the Arianism of most other Germanic tribes) led to widespread conversion among the Frankish peoples, to religious unification across what is now modern-day France, Belgium and Germany, and three centuries later to Charlemagne's alliance with the Bishop of Rome and in the middle of the 10th century under Otto I the Great to the consequent birth of the early Holy Roman Empire.
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Theuderic I
Theuderic I (c. 487 – 533/4) was the Merovingian king of Metz, Rheims, or Austrasia—as it is variously called—from 511 to 533 or 534.
He was the son of Clovis I and one of his earlier wives or concubines (possibly a Franco-Rhenish Princess, Evochildis of Cologne).
In accordance with Salian tradition, the kingdom was divided between Clovis's four surviving sons: Childebert I in Paris, Chlodomer in Orléans, and Clothar I in Soissons.
Theuderic inherited Metz in 511 at his father's death.
Early in his reign, he sent his son Theudebert to kill the Scandinavian King Chlochilaich (Hygelac of "Beowulf" fame) who had invaded his realm.
Theuderic got involved in the war between the Thuringian King Hermanfrid and his brother Baderic.
Theuderic was promised half of Thuringia for his help; Baderic was defeated, but the land promised was not given up.
In 531, Theuderic invaded Thuringia with the support of Clothar.
Hermanfrid was killed in the invasion and his kingdom was annexed.
The four sons of Clovis then all fought the Burgundian kings Sigismund and Godomar; Godomar fled and Sigismund was taken prisoner by Chlodomer.
Theuderic married Sigismund's daughter Suavegotha.
Godomar rallied the Burgundian army and won back his kingdom.
Chlodomer, aided by Theuderic, defeated Godomar, but died in the fighting at Vézeronce.
Theuderic then, with his brother Clotaire and his son, attacked Thuringia to revenge himself on Hermanfrid.
With the assistance of the Saxons under Duke Hadugato, Thuringia was conquered, and Clotaire received Radegund, daughter of King Berthar
(Hermanfrid's late brother).
After making a treaty with his brother Childebert, Theuderic died in 534.
Upon his death the throne of Metz, passed (without hindrance, unexpectedly) to his son Theudebert.
Theuderic also left a daughter Theodechild (by his wife Suavegotha, daughter of the defeated Sigismund of Burgundy).
Theodechild founded the Abbey of St-Pierre le Vif at Sens.

Question: What is the date of death of Theuderic I's father?
Answer: 27 November 511