A European Informational Website
learn more
The Salian Franks or Salii were a subgroup of the Franks who originally had been living North of the limes in the coastal area above the Rhine in the northern Netherlands, where today still is a region called Salland. From the 4th century they are attested in the history of Ammianus Marcellinus to have partly migrated to the southern Netherlands, and Belgium. From the 420s they formed a kingdom in that area after a new invasion of their king Clodio and expanded to northern France. This kingdom was later expanded by Childeric and Clovis. They were Salian kings and from Childeric and his son Clovis descended a royal house called Merovingians, named after Childeric's father Merovech whose birth was atttributed with a supernatural elements.