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Title: The story of the greatest nations, from the dawn of history to the twentieth century : a comprehensive history, founded upon the leading authorities, including a complete chronology of the world, and a pronouncing vocabulary of each nation
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: World history
Publisher: New York : F.R. Niglutsch
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ally king. Even yet Clovis was not king of all the Franks, but only of such as hadvoluntarily joined him, attracted by his fame and the hope of plunder. In hiswar against the Alemanni, however, he had practically commanded the wholeFrankish nation, for the Franks in their old German home on the Rhine, andmany of the little tribes from his own Belgium birthplace, had rallied undertheir chiefs and helped him. Being thus satisfied of the personal convenienceof having all the nation united under one head, Clovis, throughout the rest ofhis life, pursued steadily the aim of becoming that head. By force, fraud, ordeliberate murder he overthrew the little kings around him, many of whomwere his relatives. Most powerful of these other Frankish kings was Siegbert, who ruled thetribes along the Rhine. He had been Clovis most valued ally against theAlemanni, and was wounded and permanently disabled at the battle of Zulpich,Clovis sent word to the son of Siegbert: Your father is lame and grows old.
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CLOTILDE RECEIVING THE RING OF CLOVIS Germany—Clovis, King of the East-Franks 527 When he is dead you will be king, and I your friend. The young prince tookthe hint and soon after slew his father. He then showed all Siegberts treas-ures to an envoy from Clovis, saying, Take what you will for the great kingwho is my friend. But the envoy had other instructions, and he stabbed theprince, who was bending over an open chest, so that his blood poured out amidthe jewels. Thus, said the envoy, the great king punishes the death of hisold friend Siegbert. After that Clovis called a meeting of the Rhine nobles, and persuaded themthat he had rightly avenged their king. They, having already served under hisbanner and proved his prowess, gladly elected him to the vacant throne. Bythis and similar deeds he gradually attained undisputed sway over all theFranks. The warrior race learned to fear as well as to admire him. The oldequality of chief and followers disappeared, and there was no danger, du

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