They were imprisoned and tonsured; Chararic was ordained a priest and his son a deacon.
This conversation was reported to Clovis, who consequently had them killed and annexed their kingdom and treasure.
[2][3] Ian Wood notes it is surprising that Clovis waited over twenty years to deal with his rivals like Chararic, writing, "Clovis ought to have eradicated Frankish opposition earlier in his reign."
However, the fact that he had Chararic tonsured clearly points to some time after Clovis' own conversion to Christianity, which Wood dates to soon after Clovis' victory over the Alemanni which was officially done in 496 A.D. Wood concludes, "If Gregory's ordering of events here is right, and there are no means of testing this part of his account, then the last years of Clovis' reign were concerned with the internal power politics of the Franks.
[5] After all these murders Gregory tells us that Clovis lamented that he was left with no family, implying that amongst these casualties were close relatives.