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== The Early Middle Ages == | == The Early Middle Ages == | ||
<br>Sometime around AD 500 the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks Franks] under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I Clovis I] defeated the Allemanni at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tolbiac#Date Battle of Tolbiac], which is usually identified as Zülpich, North Rhine-Westphalia. This defeat at the hands of the Franks placed the Allemanni, and the northern part of Baden, under Frankish hegemony. As a result of his victory at Tolbiac, Clovis converted from paganism to Catholicism (instead of to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism Arian Christianity], as were most of the other Germanic kings, if they were Christian). His conversion helped to | <br>Sometime around AD 500 the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks Franks] under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I Clovis I] defeated the Allemanni at the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tolbiac#Date Battle of Tolbiac], which is usually identified as Zülpich, North Rhine-Westphalia. This defeat at the hands of the Franks placed the Allemanni, and the northern part of Baden, under Frankish hegemony. As a result of his victory at Tolbiac, Clovis converted from paganism to Catholicism (instead of to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism Arian Christianity], as were most of the other Germanic kings, if they were Christian). His conversion helped to ensure the growth of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholicism Catholicism] in Germany and engendered an amicable relationship between the Frankish kingdom and the Church of Rome. In time, Baden became part of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_Empire Carolingian ]and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire Holy Roman Empires]. <br> | ||
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== The High Middle Ages == | == The High Middle Ages == | ||