Frankish campaign against the Thuringians (491)

[4] In 486, Clovis advanced deep into Gaul with other Salian kings, and attached and defeated their last Roman ruler, Syagrius, at Soissons in 486.

[2] The only source for this event is a single sentence written by the 6th-century historian Gregory of Tours, who records that Clovis "conquered the Thoringi" in the tenth year of his reign (dated to 491–492): Nam decimo regni sui anno Thoringis bellum intulit eosdemque suis diccionibus subiugavit.In the tenth year of his reign he [=Clovis] made war on the Thoringi and brought them under his dominion.According to Bachrach (2001), this event should be situated in the area of the modern-day state of Hesse.

[10] Despite the 10th regnal year of Clovis provided by Gregory of Tours, the reliability of this claim has been disputed as well.

'[11] Scholars Lanting & van der Plicht (2010) argued that Gregory of Tours' mention of Thoringia, in terminum Thoringorum and Thoringi in Book II Chapter 9 and 27 are misspellings that have been misinterpreted.

More likely, Gregory actually meant the Civitas Tungrorum, the land of the Tungri (or Tungria, centred around modern Tongeren), which was located west of the Rhine, and in the direction of the Loire (which he explicitly situated south of Thoringia), Rhône and Somme rivers that he mentioned next, and the city of Cambrai that the Franks conquered next.