Childeric is who I am, I was a Frankish leader in the northern part of imperial Roman Gaul and a member of the Merovingian dynasty, described as a king, both on my Roman-style seal ring, which was buried with me, and in fragmentary later records of my life. I was the father of Clovis I, who acquired effective control over all or most Frankish kingdoms, and a significant part of Roman Gaul, I myself am quite the famous one, for I pillaged Romano-Gaullic lands after the fall of rome, sacking Paris