| The mayors ruled the Franks in all essential points, and the Merovingians were mere figureheads. |
| Brown's police cryptographer Sophie, a native Parisian, hugely blunders in claiming that Paris was founded by the Merovingians. |
| Two of these parchments were genealogies of King Dagobert II, the last of the Frankish dynasty of Priest-Kings known as the Merovingians. |
| He urged Church reform on the Merovingians, reviving the vicariate of Arles at their request. |
| The Merovingians had signally failed to rule other peoples, or even themselves, and it was this system that Charles had inherited. |
| It is important to note that hairstyle was sometimes a marker of class, as among the Merovingians. |
