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Merovingian dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Merovingian dynasty owes its name to Merovech (sometimes Latinized as Meroveus or Merovius), leader of the Salian Franks from about 447 to 457, and emerges into wider history with the victories of Childeric I (reigned about 457 - 481) against the Visigoths, Saxons and Alamanni.
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The Magdalene's heirs married into the Visigoth families of the time and gave birth to the sacred Merovingian ruling family. The Visigoths of the area might have themselves been descended from the House of Benjamin, which had fled to the Arcadia region of Greece, and thence north into France, a thousand years earlier.
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Merovingian (The Matrix) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Frankish King Dagobert II, and the Merovingian dynasty from which he came, have been romantically mythologized in the annals of both local legend and modern mystical pseudo-history, but few have understood the true meaning and origins of their alluring mystery. ... The Merovingian Mythos: Its Symbolic Significance and...
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The history of France as recounted in the Grandes Chroniques de France, and particularly in the personal copy produced for Charles V between 1370 and 1380 (BNF, Fr 2813) is the saga of the three great dynasties, Merovingian, Carolingian, and Capetian, that shaped the institutions and the frontiers of the realm.
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The Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a frequently fluctuating area, largely corresponding to ancient Gaul, from the fifth to the eighth century. They were sometimes referred to as the, long-haired kings, by contemporaries... ... click here to enter...
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