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The History Of France.
obtained an honourable death from the hand of Clovis . An infant son , a bastard competitor , factious nobles , and a disloyal people , facilitated the progress of the victor . Aquitain readil y submitted ;^ and the king of the Franks , without further opposition , established his winter quarters at Bourdeaux . In theensuingspring , Thoulouse surrendered ; [ A . D . 508 . ] the ro 3 "al treasures of that capital were transported to Parisand the
; walls of Angouleme fell before the fortune of the conqueror . But the rapid career of Clovis was checked by the policy and power of Theodoric , the king of the Ostrogoths ; that prince , with the concurrence of the Roman emperor of the east , had delivered Italy from the usurpation of Odoacer the Mercenary , and established in it the seat of his own independent sovereignty . The monarch of Italy
had espoused Albofleda , the sister of Clovis , and had also bestowed his daughter in marriage on the late king of the Visigoths . Pie had in vain endeavoured to maintain , by mediation , the tranquillity of Gaul ; and early educated in the profession of Arianism , he was influenced by religious as well as political motives , to oppose the ambition of Clovis , and to preserve the remaining possessions ' of the kindred Visi
goths . He declared himself the protector and guardian of the infant son of Alaric ; and Clovis , who had formed the siege of Aries , was- defeated with the loss of thirty thousand men , and was forced to retreat with disgrace before the general of the great Theodoric : Yet the Franks still retained the greatest part of their late acquisitions ; and the ample province of Aquitain , from the Pyrenees to the Loire , was indissolubly annexed- to the
French monarchy . The honours of the Roman , consulship , which had been conferred on the king of Ital y by Zeno , the emperor of the east , was by his successor Anastasius , granted to the king of the Franks . Amidst the shouts of the joyful multitude , who incessantly repeated the acclamations of consul and Augustus , Clovis entered the cathedral of ToursrA . D . 509 ] afterbeinginvested in the church of StMartin
, _ . . with a purple tunic and mantle . By these honorary distinctions the actual authority , of the monarch of Gaul was not auornented ; but the Romans were disposed to revere in the person " of their master the consular title , and the emperors by these marks of friendship and alliance , tacitly ratified the conquests of the son of
Childeric-The ties of consanguinity , the precepts of the pure reli gion he had so lately professed , were not sufficient to restrain the ambition of Clovis ; his throne was cemented b y the blood of his kinsmen , the Merovingian princes . [ A . D . 510 . ] Among other victims to his insatiate thirst of power , we discern Si gibert , the king of Cologne , with his son Clodoric ; Cararic , whose dominions are ^ not precisely ascertained ; Ranacaive , who reigned over the diocese of Cambray ; and Renomer , whose independent authority was acknowled ged by the territory of Maine : Yet these cruelties were in the eyes of the
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The History Of France.
obtained an honourable death from the hand of Clovis . An infant son , a bastard competitor , factious nobles , and a disloyal people , facilitated the progress of the victor . Aquitain readil y submitted ;^ and the king of the Franks , without further opposition , established his winter quarters at Bourdeaux . In theensuingspring , Thoulouse surrendered ; [ A . D . 508 . ] the ro 3 "al treasures of that capital were transported to Parisand the
; walls of Angouleme fell before the fortune of the conqueror . But the rapid career of Clovis was checked by the policy and power of Theodoric , the king of the Ostrogoths ; that prince , with the concurrence of the Roman emperor of the east , had delivered Italy from the usurpation of Odoacer the Mercenary , and established in it the seat of his own independent sovereignty . The monarch of Italy
had espoused Albofleda , the sister of Clovis , and had also bestowed his daughter in marriage on the late king of the Visigoths . Pie had in vain endeavoured to maintain , by mediation , the tranquillity of Gaul ; and early educated in the profession of Arianism , he was influenced by religious as well as political motives , to oppose the ambition of Clovis , and to preserve the remaining possessions ' of the kindred Visi
goths . He declared himself the protector and guardian of the infant son of Alaric ; and Clovis , who had formed the siege of Aries , was- defeated with the loss of thirty thousand men , and was forced to retreat with disgrace before the general of the great Theodoric : Yet the Franks still retained the greatest part of their late acquisitions ; and the ample province of Aquitain , from the Pyrenees to the Loire , was indissolubly annexed- to the
French monarchy . The honours of the Roman , consulship , which had been conferred on the king of Ital y by Zeno , the emperor of the east , was by his successor Anastasius , granted to the king of the Franks . Amidst the shouts of the joyful multitude , who incessantly repeated the acclamations of consul and Augustus , Clovis entered the cathedral of ToursrA . D . 509 ] afterbeinginvested in the church of StMartin
, _ . . with a purple tunic and mantle . By these honorary distinctions the actual authority , of the monarch of Gaul was not auornented ; but the Romans were disposed to revere in the person " of their master the consular title , and the emperors by these marks of friendship and alliance , tacitly ratified the conquests of the son of
Childeric-The ties of consanguinity , the precepts of the pure reli gion he had so lately professed , were not sufficient to restrain the ambition of Clovis ; his throne was cemented b y the blood of his kinsmen , the Merovingian princes . [ A . D . 510 . ] Among other victims to his insatiate thirst of power , we discern Si gibert , the king of Cologne , with his son Clodoric ; Cararic , whose dominions are ^ not precisely ascertained ; Ranacaive , who reigned over the diocese of Cambray ; and Renomer , whose independent authority was acknowled ged by the territory of Maine : Yet these cruelties were in the eyes of the