A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . twelve years, Zeno authorized Theodoric, King ofthe Ostrogoths, to move upon Italy. Odoacer was defeated,and Theodoric reigned in peace from 493 to 526. Under himItaly flourished, the Visigoths became subject to him, and hiskingdom stretched from the interior of Spain across Gauland Italy. He encouraged learning and fostered he was an Arian, he respected the Catholics andprotected the Jews. The persecution of the Arians in theEast (524) by Justin I. led him to believe that a conspiracywas forming against h
A brief history of the nations and of their progress in civilization . twelve years, Zeno authorized Theodoric, King ofthe Ostrogoths, to move upon Italy. Odoacer was defeated,and Theodoric reigned in peace from 493 to 526. Under himItaly flourished, the Visigoths became subject to him, and hiskingdom stretched from the interior of Spain across Gauland Italy. He encouraged learning and fostered he was an Arian, he respected the Catholics andprotected the Jews. The persecution of the Arians in theEast (524) by Justin I. led him to believe that a conspiracywas forming against him. He accused Boethius, a learned 214 TEUTONIC MIGKATIONS AND KINGDOMS man, of being a partner in it, and condemned him to death.(424). Theodoric gradually became unpopular with his ortho-dox subjects, and after his death (526) his ashes were takenout of his tomb and scattered to the winds. The Franks ; Clovis. — When, near the end of the fifth cen-tury, Clovis, a warlike Merovingian prince, became King ofthe Franks in northern Gaul, they numbered but a few thou-. TOMB OF TlIEODOEIC AT EaVENNA sand warriors. Clovis formed alliances with other Prankishpeoples, and made war on the Alemanni. Before a battle, hevowed that, if a victory were given him, he would worship theGod of the Christians, of whom his wife Clotilde was was victorious, and with three thousand of his nobles hewas baptized by Remigius (St. Remi), Archbishop of brought Paris within his dominion and subjugated themost of Gaul. The Gallic Church and clergy lent him theirdevoted support. He was hailed as the most Christian THE MEROVINGIANS 215 king ; but he was a barbarian still, and the new faith im-posed little restraint on his cruelty. Large portions of Ger-many and Gaul became permanently subject to the Franks. The Merovingians. — The dominion of Clovis was partitionedamong his four sons (511). Austrasia, on both banks of theRhine, was the land of the Eastern Franks. In Neustria wascomprised
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