Chlodio ~ Ceftain of the Salian Franks

     Chlodio ~ Ceftain of the Salian Franks was born circa 380.¹ He was the son of Pharamond ~ King of the Salic Franks. Chlodio ~ Ceftain of the Salian Franks was also known as Clodius V, and Clodion.¹ Often described as "King of the Franks", Chlodio may be more accurately referred to as a "Chieftain of the Salian Franks". Frankish warriors served as Roman soldiers; and this service was rewarded as the Salians were allowed to spread out from their "reservation" known as Toxandria (Tiesterbant near Campine in the southern Netherlands) into what is to-day Begium, northern France as well as along the lower Rhine. Much of this expansion was peaceful, although in 428 and again in 450 the Roman general Ætius crushed Frankish uprisings led by Chodio. At other times, there was close co-operation as in the Frankish support given Ætius in his defeat of the Huns near Orléans in 451.^1,2,3 He died in 448.¹