commander, 5 engagements

Battles of Clovis I

first king of the Franks (c. 466-511)

Clovis I is recorded as a commander at 5 placed engagements in the atlas between AD 486 and AD 507: 4 battles and 1 siege across 2 present-day countries, most in France (4), Germany (1). Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,588 km apart end to end, 397 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Franco-Visigothic Wars (2).

5 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

5 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 1

Franco-Visigothic Wars 2

Engagements by date

Date	Engagement	Place	From the last	Result
AD 486	Battle of Soissons	Soissons, France		Frankish victory; Fall of the Kingdom of Soissons
AD 496	Battle of Tolbiac	Cologne, Germany	275 km NE	Frankish victory; End of Alamannic autonomy
AD 506	Battle of Strasbourg	Strasbourg, France	248 km S	Frankish victory; End of Alamannic autonomy
AD 507	Battle of Vouille	Vouillé, France	599 km W	Frankish victory
AD 507	Siege of Arles	Arles, France	467 km SE	Gothic victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, Jean Du Tillet http://mandragore.bnf.fr/, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.