Editing Clovis I (section)

===Death===
[[File:Clotilde partageant le royaume entre ses fils.jpg|thumb|upright=1.15|The partition of the Frankish kingdom among the four sons of Clovis with [[Clotilde]] presiding, ''[[Grandes Chroniques de Saint-Denis]]'' (Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse)]]

Shortly before his death, Clovis called a synod of Gallic bishops to meet in [[Orléans]] to reform the Church and create a strong link between the Crown and the Catholic episcopate. This was the [[First Council of Orléans]]. Thirty-three bishops assisted and passed 31 decrees on the duties and obligations of individuals, the right of sanctuary, and ecclesiastical discipline. These decrees, equally applicable to Franks and Romans, first established equality between conquerors and conquered. After his death, Clovis was laid to rest in the [[Abbey of St Genevieve]] in Paris.

His remains were relocated to [[Saint Denis Basilica]] in the mid- to late 18th century. When Clovis died, his kingdom was partitioned among his four sons, [[Theuderic I of Austrasia|Theuderic]], [[Chlodomer]], [[Childebert I|Childebert]] and [[Clotaire I|Clotaire]]. This partition created the new political units of the Kingdoms of [[Rheims]], [[Orléans]], Paris and [[Soissons]], and inaugurated a tradition that would lead to disunity lasting until the end of the [[Merovingians|Merovingian]] dynasty in 751. Clovis had been a king with no fixed capital and no central administration beyond his entourage. By deciding to be interred at Paris, Clovis gave the city symbolic weight. When his grandchildren divided royal power 50 years after his death in 511, Paris was kept as a joint property and a fixed symbol of the dynasty.<ref>Patrick Boucheron, et al., eds. ''France in the World: A New Global History'' (2019) pp 85–86.</ref>

The disunity continued under the [[Carolingians]] until, after a brief unity under [[Charlemagne]], the Franks splintered into distinct spheres of cultural influence that coalesced around Eastern and Western centers of royal power. These later political, linguistic, and cultural entities became the Kingdom of France, the myriad German States, and the semi-autonomous kingdoms of [[Burgundy]] and [[Lotharingia]].