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 His kingdom is divided among his sons. |
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| 511 in other calendars | |
| Ethiopian calendar | 503/504 |
| Buddhist calendar | 1054/55 (southern Buddhism); 1053/54 (alternative calculation according to Buddha's Parinirvana ) |
| Chinese calendar | 53rd (54th) cycle
Year of the metal rabbit辛卯 ( at the beginning of the year metal tiger 庚寅) |
| Jewish calendar | 4271/72 (9/10 September) |
| Coptic calendar | 227/228 |
| Roman calendar |
ab urbe condita MCCLXIV (1264)
Diocletian's era : 227/228 (New Year November) |
| Seleucid era | Babylon: 821/822 (April)
Syria: 822/823 (October) |
| Spanish era | 549 |
| Vikram Sambat (Nepalese Calendar) | 567/568 (turn of the year April) |
In 511 the Franconian Empire experienced its first division after the death of the Merovingian ruler Clovis I. The kingdom is divided among his four sons Theuderich , Chlodomer , Childebert and Chlothar . In the same year, however, the Ostrogoths and Visigoths were reunited under the rule of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great , who took over the reign of his grandson Amalaric in the Visigoths after he had deposed the previous ruler Gesalech .
Events
Politics and world events
Germanic parts
Clovis I after his death on November 27 in the sacrarium in the Church of the Apostles Peter and Paul buried in Paris. his empire is divided among his four sons Theuderic , Chlodomer , Childebert and Chlothar , who found the new kingdoms of Metz / Reims (later Austrasia ), Orléans , Paris and Soissons .
The Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great intervenes in the Visigoth empire and drives out its ruler Gesalech . Theodoric appointed his grandson Amalaric as the new king , for whom he took over the guardianship. Gesalech fled for the time being to the Vandals in North Africa. Their ruler Thrasamund , who is in opposition to Theodoric, grants Gesalech asylum and provides him with funds. He tries to regain control of his empire from Gaul, but is defeated with his supporters at Barcino . He is killed while trying to escape to the empire of the Burgundians .
Eastern Roman Empire
In August , the Eastern Roman Emperor Anastasios I deposed Macedonios II , the Patriarch of Constantinople appointed by himself in 496 , and replaced him with Thimotheus I , the Monophysite Patriarch of Antioch . This led to uprisings in the empire, some of which lasted for the next few years.
science and technology
The Lex Salica , one of the oldest surviving codes of law, written by order of Clovis I, was completed around 511. It contains the Germanic tribal rights of the Salfranken . With it, old orally handed down legal practices are put down in writing for the first time. The text is in Latin but contains Germanic fragments. The articles deal with all possible legal cases, whereby the guilty - if he is free - almost always had to pay a fine. Unfree people, on the other hand, are punished with corporal punishment such as lashes or rod blows and in a few cases even with death.
Religion and culture
Clovis I , King of the Franks , convenes a council of bishops in Orléans for July . The first imperial council in the Franconian Empire regulates questions of faith and the organization of the church in the empire, as well as the balance of power between ecclesiastical and secular rulers. The king is granted a decisive influence in the appointment of the bishops in the sense of the Germanic church system . Another focus of the council is the fight against Arianism and the right of asylum in churches. In the council resolution, fortune-telling is prohibited under threat of excommunication . The resolutions were signed by 32 participants on July 10th .
Eugippius , the third abbot of the monastery and order of Favianis founded by Severin , wrote the Vita Sancti Severini , a hagiography of Saint Severin of Noricum . The content and intention of the work is, as in the majority of the surviving saints' lives, the exalting representation of the life and the miraculous activity of the saint described. Despite the problems of hagiographic literature , the text is a valuable contemporary source for the conditions in Central Europe in the 5th and 6th centuries, at the turn of antiquity to the early Middle Ages .
Died
- November 27th : Clovis , King of the Franks (* 466 )
- Gesalech , king of the Visigoths
- around 511: Theodulf von Trier , hermit from Britain, saint of the Catholic Church
