Roman power in Gaul declined(Holy Roman Empire)

Holy Roman Empire - Roman power in Gaul declined

Time: 5th Century

Place: (Present Day France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy, Netherlands, and Germany)

Details: As Roman power in Gaul declined during the 5th century, local Germanic tribes assumed control. In the late 5th and early 6th centuries, the Merovingians, under Clovis I and his successors, consolidated Frankish tribes and extended hegemony over others to gain control of northern Gaul and the middle Rhine river valley region.