Chlodio

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Chlodio
A King of Franks
An imagined portrait (ca. 1720) of Chlodio
Reign	20 years[1]
Died	Probably after 450[2]
Issue	Merovech (uncertain, but probable relative)
Names Chlodio
Father	possibly Pharamond or Theodemer

Chlodio (probably died after 450), also Clodio, Clodius, Clodion, Cloio or Chlogio, was a Frankish king who attacked and then apparently ruled Roman-inhabited lands around Cambrai and Tournai, near the modern border of Belgium and France. He is known from very few records.

His influence probably reached as far south as the River Somme. He was therefore the first Frankish ruler to become established so deep within the Roman Empire, and distant from the border regions where the Franks had already been established for a long time. He was possibly a descendant of the Salian Franks, who Roman sources report to have settled within Texandria in the 4th century.

Gregory of Tours reported that in his time people believed that the Merovingian dynasty, who were still ruling, were descended somehow from Chlodio.