{Uncertain Dates}[21st February 1991]

[Redbook8:286][19910221:1142o]{Uncertain Dates}[21st February 1991]

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E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 2:401 gives the conversion to Christianity of Clovis, the Merovingian king of the Franks, at 493 +3 years + 2 years ie c[irca] 498[ce].

E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 25:335 gives his baptism in 506[ce].

E[ncyclopaedia] B[ritannica] 19:449 gives his baptism in 496 or 506, and explains the uncertainty.

All the same, the moral must be that dates up to at least 1024CE should be treated with caution.

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