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Chlodio (died probably after 450 also Clodio, Clodius, Clodion, Cloio or Chlogio, was a Frankish king who attacked, and apparently then ruled, Roman-inhabited lands around Cambrai and Tournai. He is known from very few records.

His influence probably reached as far south as the River Somme. He was therefore the first Frankish ruler to become established so deep within the empire, and distant from the border regions where the Franks had already been established for a long time. He was possibly a descendant of the Salian Franks, who Roman sources report to have settled within Texandria in the 4th century.

Gregory of Tours reported that in his time people believed that the Merovingian dynasty, who were still ruling, were descended somehow from Chlodio.