Founder of the Merovingian dynasty was Merovaeus, said to be descended from the union of a sea creature and a French queen. |
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The Merovingian kings were not boorish illiterates, but were able to read and write. |
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I still have some trouble thinking of the Merovingian kings of the 8th century as belonging to Late Antiquity, but no term is without compromise. |
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I'm pretty sure this was a book that I saw in bits and pieces over the floor during Michaelmas, when he took me for tutes about Merovingian Gaul. |
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This theme, too, recurred in another dream in which he found himself surrounded by sarcophagi dating from Merovingian times. |
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The lives of the three Jura Fathers-Romanus, Lupicinus, and Eugendus-provide glimpses into the history and spirituality of Merovingian Gaul. |
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He and his brother, however, became embroiled in Merovingian high politics and were both suspected of treason by Queen Balthild. |
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The beginnings of monastic viticulture in Burgundy were in these Merovingian times. |
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I guess we should have someone of the Merovingian bloodline, or at least one of the Romanov's or something. |
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Forty-five aristocratic Merovingian tombs have been discovered over the past few weeks in the Haut-Rhin. |
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In the time of the Merovingian kings, the Pont de l' Alma was an underground chamber. |
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Under the Franks the role of constable developed from being in charge of the royal stables to a principal officer of the Merovingian and Carolingian kings. |
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The characteristic landscape of Merovingian villages is a settlement composed of scattered little hamlets, with a multitude of little fields separated by uncultivated lands. |
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Later in his rule, the reigning Merovingian king being an incompetent drunkard, Pepin sent a letter to the Pope asking for his support in deposing the king. |
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Jouarre owns a historic jewel: one of the most ancien Merovingian monuments in Europe. |
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This script is characterized by clear, neat letters, with each word clearly separated from one another, rather than all run together as Merovingian script often was. |
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In the 6th century AD, it included a Merovingian abbey under the control of the abbey of Moutier-Grandval. |
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In the village of Jouarre, Saint Paul's Merovingian crypt deserves the visit. |
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Situated at the very heart of the forest, its ruins make for a beautiful panoramic viewpoint, surrounded by a fascinating Merovingian cemetery. |
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Its origine would go back to the Gallo-Roman time, whereas objects, as sarcophaguses found recently, go back to the Merovingian epoch. |
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The report in its original form was more like the description of the Merovingian dynasty as despotism tempered by assassination. |
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The Franks occupied their territory in 534, and the town later became part of the Merovingian Kingdom and subsequently the Carlovingian Empire. |
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Appearing onerously in both Matrix sequels, the Merovingian is a cartoon diagram of a European filled in with the usual stoner musings of the Wachowski brothers. |
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By 640, the Merovingian dynasty established by Clovis, rapidly declined. |
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The Franks occupied Gaul, developing into the powerful Merovingian Empire, whose art synthesized a wide range of influences, Gallo-Roman, Byzantine, and even Coptic. |
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His Merovingian successors extended Frankish powers east of the Rhine. |
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The Alma bridge in Paris where Diana met her death, it was claimed, was built at a site of pagan sacrifice and ritual combat for the Merovingian kings. |
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The first sanctuary, built to replace a pagan cult place of workship, is probably of Wisigothic and Merovingian times. |
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Merovingian church and crypt containing a number of very old burials in sarcophagi. One of the oldest religious buildings in Europe. |
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The practice spread, and it seems to be taken for granted by King Clovis I at the very beginning of the Merovingian dynasty. |
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A gradual immigration by Germanic Frankish tribes during the 5th century brought the area under the rule of the Merovingian kings. |
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The Merovingian Franks gradually gained control of the region during the 5th century, under Clovis. |
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The formerly Romanized north of Gaul, once it had been occupied by the Franks, would develop into Merovingian culture instead. |
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It also signalled the dominance of Austrasia over Neustria, which would last until the end of the Merovingian era. |
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The increasingly wealthy Merovingian elite endowed many monasteries, including that of the Irish missionary Columbanus. |
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The stream running through Dieppe was called Tella in Merovingian and Carolingian documents, before being called Dieppe in the 10th century. |
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The archaeology section initiated by Julien Feuvrier, has a collection devoted to archaeological finds in the Jura from the Neolithic to the Merovingian period. |
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Clovis made Paris his capital and established the Merovingian dynasty, but his kingdom would not survive his death. |
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Austrasia was a territory which formed the northeastern section of the Merovingian Kingdom of the Franks during the 6th to 8th centuries. |
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Fulda monastery was founded in eastern Austrasia in the final decade of the Merovingian period. |
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Both groups remained politically distinct until Clovis, a Salian and a member of the Merovingian dynasty, unified Francia. |
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Merovingian armies used coats of mail, helmets, shields, lances, swords, bows and arrows and war horses. |
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In their civil wars, the Merovingian kings concentrated on the holding of fortified places and the use of siege engines. |
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The Merovingian kings divided their realm equally among all living sons, leading to much conflict and fratricide among the rival heirs. |
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The Burgundian kingdom was made part of the Merovingian kingdoms, and the Burgundians themselves were by and large absorbed as well. |
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He is considered to have been the founder of the Merovingian dynasty, which ruled the Frankish kingdom for the next two centuries. |
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Clovis was the son of Childeric I, a Merovingian king of the Salian Franks, and Basina, a Thuringian princess. |
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The Merovingian dynasty was thereby replaced by the Carolingian dynasty, named after Charles Martel. |
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The Merovingian art of the Franks, which was culturally predominant throughout Europe in the 6th century, survives principally in grave relics, such as jewelry, hollowware, and the like. |
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The first map shows the places of origin of 37 Merovingian coins found in the Sutton Hoo treasure trove. |
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This quasi-historical approach was also the basis of various other published hypotheses as to the merging of Christ's bloodline with the Merovingian bloodline. |
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Merovingian king of Austrasia and briefly of all the Frankish lands. |
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Founded in 1849, the Metz Métropole La Cour d'Or Museums take their name from the palace of the Merovingian kings from Austrasia of which Metz was the capital. |
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Ministeriales existed in the Byzantine Empire, Merovingian France, 11th-century Germany during the Salian dynasty, medieval Muscovy, and throughout the Ottoman Empire. |
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He consolidated his rule with victories over the Gallo-Romans and all the Frankish tribes, and his successors made other Germanic tribes subjects of the Merovingian Dynasty. |
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It is a West Germanic language and was spoken in Merovingian times, preceding the 7th century. |
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Ottmarsheim : the birth of the village of Ottmarsheim goes back to the Merovingian era, as the discovery in 1909 of 6th and 7th century tombs indicates. |
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Among the chateau curiosities are a group of 7th century Merovingian sarcophagi, which were unearthed on the property during reconstruction of the village church. |
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This was the site of a Merovingian sanctuary, which was expanded in the 11th century to accommodate the crowds of pilgrims who came to pray before the relics of the much-loved bishop, Saint Ouen. |
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This country house is mentioned in texts from the XVth century but the foundations of this building are much older and perhaps date from Merovingian times. |
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With this, the Merovingian line of kings ended, and the Carolingian line began. |
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Bertha was the daughter of Charibert I, one of the Merovingian kings of the Franks. |
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Textual sources suggest that Kent may have been under Merovingian control for part of this century. |
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The Merovingian Franks inherited the concept, followed by the Carolingian French but the later French term was basti or bastide. |
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For instance, in Piast Poland, the position of komes was not hereditary, resembling the early Merovingian institution. |
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During the Merovingian period, Frankish had significant influence on the Romance languages spoken in Gaul. |
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The reign of Theuderic III was to prove the end of the Merovingian dynasty's power. |
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There were no more active Merovingian kings after that point and Charles and his Carolingian heirs ruled the Franks. |
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Even after the last Merovingian capitulary, kings of the dynasty continued to independently exercise some legal powers. |
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A Carolingian denarius replaced the Merovingian one, and the Frisian penning, in Gaul from 755 to the eleventh century. |
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During the final century of Merovingian rule, the kings were increasingly pushed into a ceremonial role. |
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Upon Clovis's death in 511, the Merovingian kingdom included all of Gaul except Burgundy and all of Germania magna except Saxony. |
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The few surviving Merovingian edicts are almost entirely concerned with settling divisions of estates among heirs. |
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Merovingian kings and queens used the newly forming ecclesiastical power structure to their advantage. |
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The most characteristic form of Merovingian literature is represented by the Lives of the saints. |
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The foundation of Constance is obscure, though it was the largest diocese in Germany throughout the Merovingian and early Carolingian era. |
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At Tours, Gregory could not have been better placed to hear everything and meet everyone of influence in Merovingian culture. |
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In particular, there is no change in burial practice, and tumulus warrior graves continued to be erected throughout Merovingian times. |
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This script evolved into the medieval scripts known as Merovingian and Carolingian minuscule. |
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The Verviers area was covered with forests and became a hunting ground for the Merovingian kings, who maintained a vicus in neighbouring Theux. |
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Extra sons and daughters who could not be married off were sent to monasteries so that they would not threaten the inheritance of older Merovingian children. |
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The other aspects of the Merovingian military, mostly Roman in origin or innovations of powerful kings, disappeared from the scene by the 8th century. |
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It covers the period from 584 to 641, though its continuators, under Carolingian patronage, extended it to 768, after the close of the Merovingian era. |
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The medievalistic seminars conducted by Professor Marceli Handelsman produced a considerable number of works on society and power in the Merovingian and Carolingian Europe. |
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He is the primary contemporary source for Merovingian history. |
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During the middle 670s Wilfrid acted as middleman in the negotiations to return a Merovingian prince, Dagobert II, from his exile in Ireland to Gaul. |
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Gregory's hagiographies are also an invaluable source of anecdotes and stories which enrich our understanding of life and belief in Merovingian Gaul. |
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It was the eastern half of the old Merovingian regnum Austrasiorum. |
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Most of Gaul was under Merovingian control as was part of Italy and their overlordship extended into Germany where they reigned over the Thuringians, Alamans, and Bavarians. |
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The name Austrasia is not well attested in the Merovingian period. |
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The Merovingian Antwerp was evangelized by Saint Amand in the 7th century. |
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The narrative developed here is that Jesus survived the cross to father children with Mary Magdalene whose descendants founded the Merovingian dynasty. |
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The Merovingian Church was shaped by both internal and external forces. |
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Under Clovis' Merovingian successors the inhabitants were Christianized. |
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The few Merovingian illuminated manuscripts that have survived, such as the Gelasian Sacramentary, contain a great deal of zoomorphic representations. |
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The Frankish state under the Merovingian dynasty had many of the characteristics of Germanic monarchy under heavy influence from secular and ecclesiastic Rome. |
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There are many theories to explain the collapse of Merovingian power, most of which blame the inability of later Merovingians in war as an important factor. |
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The Merovingian dynasty, descendants of the Salians, founded one of the French monarchies that would absorb large parts of the Western Roman Empire. |
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Women took part in aristocratic society mainly in their roles as wives and mothers of men, with the role of mother of a ruler being especially prominent in Merovingian Gaul. |
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These ties led to the prevalence of the feud in aristocratic society, examples of which included those related by Gregory of Tours that took place in Merovingian Gaul. |
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The Insular influence on the uncial script of the later Merovingian period eventually gave way to the development of the Carolingian minuscule in the 9th century. |
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The Saxons of Bayeux comprised a standing army and were often called upon to serve alongside the local levy of their region in Merovingian military campaigns. |
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Unto Salo has also stated, drawing on the change in burial customs in Finland during the Merovingian Period, that the world view of people changed entirely. |
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In 1906, the British Egyptologist Flinders Petrie suggested that the Marvingi recorded by Ptolemy as living near the Rhine were the ancestors of the Merovingian dynasty. |
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Thus, the Merovingian becomes the voice for hard determinism in the face of Neo's libertarian position on free will and the Oracle's tenseless time. |
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However, in 751, Pepin finally displaced the last Merovingian and, with the support of the nobility and the blessing of Pope Zachary, became one of the Frankish kings. |
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In 1957, the sepulchre of a Merovingian woman at the time believed to be Clotaire I's second wife, Aregund, was discovered in Saint Denis Basilica in Paris. |
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The name of the code comes from the circumstance that Clovis was a Merovingian king ruling only the Salian Franks before his unification of Francia. |
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