Chlothar I | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article: Chlothar I 00:01:36 1 Introduction 00:02:45 2 Life 00:02:54 2.1 Early life 00:03:33 2.2 Accession to the throne 00:04:43 2.3 First Burgundian war 00:06:05 2.4 Marriage with Guntheuc 00:06:31 2.5 Marriage with Aregund 00:07:03 2.6 Thuringian conquest 00:07:54 2.7 Princess Radegund 00:08:57 2.8 Acquisition of the kingdom of Orléans 00:11:23 2.9 Second Burgundian war 00:12:12 2.10 First Visigoth war 00:12:53 2.11 Civil war 00:13:46 2.12 Ceding of Provence 00:14:22 2.13 Second Visigoth war 00:14:56 2.14 Tuscan tribute 00:15:34 2.15 Death of Clotilde 00:16:01 2.16 Acquisition of Metz 00:17:04 2.17 Saxon war 00:18:04 2.18 Submission of Auvergne 00:18:57 2.19 War with Chram 00:20:01 2.20 Unification of all Francia 00:21:48 2.21 Relations with the church 00:22:41 3 Death 00:23:12 3.1 Succession 00:23:46 3.2 Female monasticism 00:24:09 4 Family 00:26:37 5 Ancestry Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: increases imagination and understanding improves your listening skills improves your own spoken accent learn while on the move reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:    / @wikipediatts983   You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts "The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." Socrates SUMMARY ======= Chlothar I (c. 497 – 29 November 561), also called "Clotaire I" and the Old (le Vieux), King of the Franks, was one of the four sons of Clovis I of the Merovingian dynasty. Chlothar's father, Clovis I, divided the kingdom between his four sons. In 511, Clothar I inherited two large territories on the Western coast of Francia, separated by the lands of his brother Childebert I's Kingdom of Paris. Chlothar spent most of his life in a campaign to expand his territories at the expense of his relatives and neighbouring realms in all directions. His brothers avoided outright war by cooperating with his attacks on neighbouring lands in concert or by invading lands when their rulers died. The spoils were shared between the participating brothers. By the end of his life, Chlothar had managed to reunite Francia by surviving his brothers and seizing their territories after they died. But upon his own death, the Kingdom of the Franks was once again divided between his own four surviving sons. A fifth son had rebelled and was killed, along with his family. Chlothar's father, Clovis I, had converted to Nicene Christianity, but Chlothar, like other Merovingians, did not consider that the Christian doctrine of monogamy should be expected of royalty: he had five wives, more from political expediency than for personal motives. Although at the instigation of his queens he gave money for several new ecclesiastical edifices, he was a less than enthusiastic Christian and succeeded in introducing taxes on ecclesiastical property.