| It is important to note that hairstyle was sometimes a marker of class or gens, as among the Merovingians. |
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| Two of these parchments were genealogies of King Dagobert II, the last of the Frankish dynasty of Priest-Kings known as the Merovingians. |
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| Brown's police cryptographer Sophie, a native Parisian, hugely blunders in claiming that Paris was founded by the Merovingians. |
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| He urged Church reform on the Merovingians, reviving the vicariate of Arles at their request. |
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| The mayors ruled the Franks in all essential points, and the Merovingians were mere figureheads. |
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| It is important to note that hairstyle was sometimes a marker of class, as among the Merovingians. |
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| Pepin united Gaul under his rule, for under the later Merovingians large sections had become largely independent. |
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| In A.D.42, Mary and Sarah move with their supporters to France, where their descendants marry into a royal French family, the Merovingians. |
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| All true European royalty is descended from the Merovingians, which are believed to be descendants of Jesus Christ. |
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| The Merovingians had signally failed to rule other peoples, or even themselves, and it was this system that Charles had inherited. |
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| The Merovingians were warriors rather than administrators, few of them showing any interest in government. |
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| Anyhow, the Merovingians didn't do much for Europe, or for themselves, for that matter. |
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| Under the Merovingians and the Carolingians Paris was an important centre of trade, and much of the wine sold there would have been produced locally. |
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| Could Patrick West be a secret descendant of the Merovingians? |
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| The Merovingians are in action against Leodiensians at Percy Road. |
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| Francia, ruled by the Merovingians, was the most powerful of the kingdoms that succeeded the Western Roman Empire. |
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| His son, Pepin the Short, seized the crown of Francia from the weakened Merovingians and founded the Carolingian dynasty. |
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| The unification achieved by the Merovingians ensured the continuation of what has become known as the Carolingian Renaissance. |
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| The Franks under the Merovingians melded Germanic custom with Romanised organisation and several important tactical innovations. |
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| Only in the lands beyond the Rhine did the Merovingians seek to extend political control over their neighbours. |
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| Tactically, the Merovingians borrowed heavily from the Romans, especially regarding siege warfare. |
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| The Carolingians had assumed the regal status and practice, though not the regal title, of the Merovingians. |
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| The Merovingians adopted the capitulary as a tool for the promulgation and preservation of royal ordinances. |
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| Numerous Merovingians who served as bishops and abbots, or who generously funded abbeys and monasteries, were rewarded with sainthood. |
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| By the middle of the 8th century, however, the Merovingians had been reduced to figureheads, and the Carolingians, led by Charles Martel, had become the de facto rulers. |
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| The language border began to crystallize between 700 under the reign of the Merovingians and Carolingians and around 1000 after the Ottonian Renaissance. |
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| Very little is in fact known about the course of the 7th century due to a scarcity of sources, but Merovingians remained in power until the 8th century. |
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| But Charles's real interests lay in the northeast, primarily with the Saxons, from whom he had to extort the tribute which for centuries they had paid to the Merovingians. |
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| Chlodio's family, the Merovingians, extended Francia even further south. |
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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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| By the end of the 8th century, the Low Countries formed a core part of a much expanded Francia and the Merovingians were replaced by the Carolingian dynasty. |
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| The first Austrasian mayors came from the Pippinid family, which experienced a slow but steady ascent until it eventually displaced the Merovingians on the throne. |
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| The Carolingian dynasty dethroned the Merovingians in the 8th century. |
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