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	Childeric III - LoveToKnow 1911
		The throne had been vacant for seven years when the mayors of the palace, Carloman and Pippin the Short, decided in 743 to recognize Childeric as king.
		When in 747 Carloman retired into a monastery, Pippin resolved to take the royal crown for himself; taking the decisive step in 751 after having received the celebrated answer of Pope Zacharias that it were better to name king him who possessed the power than him who possessed it not.
		Childeric was dethroned and placed in the monastery of St Omer; his son, Theuderich, was imprisoned at Saint-Wandrille.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Childeric_III (193 words)

	Childeric- FREE Childeric Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		dynasty of Frankish kings, descended, according to tradition, from Merovech, chief of the Salian Franks, whose son was Childeric I and whose grandson was Clovis I, the founder of the Frankish monarchy.
		The painting is formally composed with Childeric, the queen and a messenger forming a requisite...
		Charles V the Wise Charles VI the Beloved Charles VII the Victorious Charles VIII the Affable Charles IX Charles X Childeric I Childeric II Childric III Clovis I Eudes (Odo) Francis I Francis II Henry I Henry II Henry III Henry IV Hugh Capet John...
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	Merovingian Dynasty
		Childeric's son, Clovis I, went on to unite most of Gaul north of the Loire River(486).
		On the night of November 5-6, 1831, the treasure of Childeric was among 80 kilos of treasure stolen from the Library and melted down for the gold.
		Childeric III (died about 751), king of the Franks, was the last king of the Merovingian dynasty.
	www.paris-walking-tours.com /merovingiandynasty.html (3704 words)

	Merovingian Dynasty - Crystalinks
		Childeric's son Clovis I went on to unite most of Gaul north of the Loire around 486.
		At the outset of Merovingian dynasty, the nobles banished Childeric, the father of Clovis, and acclaimed instead a Roman dux, Aegidius.
		The Merovingian king was the master of the booty of war, both movable and in lands and their folk, and he was in charge of the redistribution of conquered wealth among the first of his followers.
	www.crystalinks.com /merovingian.html (852 words)

	childeric iii - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Childeric III (died about 751), king of the Franks, was the last king of the Merovingian dynasty.
		When in 747 Carloman retired into a monastery, Pippin resolved to take the royal crown for himself; taking the decisive step in 751 after having received the celebrated answer of Pope Zacharias that it were better to name king him who possessed the power than him who possessed it not.
		Childeric was dethroned and placed in the monastery of St Omer; his son, Theuderich, was imprisoned at Saint-Wandrifie.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/childeric-iii (196 words)

	The Franks
		Childeric died at Tournai, his capital, where his tomb was found in 1653 (Cochet, Le tombeau de Childéric, Paris, 1859).
		Sigebert III reigned in Austrasia with Pepin of Landen, who had returned and was installed as mayor of the palace after the death of Dagobert.
		Clotaire III (657-70), son of Clovis, succeeded his father as head of the entire monarchy under the guardianship of his mother, Bathilde, with Erkinoald as mayor of the palace.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/f/franks.html (5047 words)

	French History Timeline
		Edward III invaded France in 1346, and conducted a successful campaign that led to the crushing defeat of French army at the battle of Crécy (1346) and capture of Calais in the same year.
		Edward III retaliated against French encroachment into the English duke-king's territory in southwest France with an attempted invasion of northern France by way of Flanders, which was resisting French rule there.
		Edward III of England died in 1377, and the English crown was awarded to Richard II (1377-1399), the son of the 'Black Prince', who had died in 1376.
	www.xenophongroup.com /montjoie/fr-tl.htm (4197 words)

	Childeric III - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Childeric III (died about 751), king of the Franks, was the last king of the Merovingian dynasty.
		Childeric was dethroned and placed in the monastery of St Omer; his son, Theuderich, was imprisoned at Saint-Wandrifie.
		See W Junghans, Die Geschichte der fränkischen Konige Childerich und Clodovech (Göttingen, 1857); JJ Chiflet, Anastasis Childerici I Francorum regis (Antwerp, 1655); JBD Cochet, Le Tombeau de Childeric I, roi des Francs (Paris, 1859); and E Lavisse, Histoire de France, tome ii.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Childeric_III (217 words)

	Childeric I - Definition, explanation
		Childeric's tomb was discovered in 1653, by a mason doing repairs at the church of Saint-Brice in Tournai when numerous precious objects were found, a richly ornamented sword, a torse-like bracelet, jewels of gold and cloisonné enamel with garnets, gold coins, a gold bull's head and a ring with the inscription
		Napoleon was more impressed with Childeric's bees: looking for a heraldic symbol to trump the Bourbon fleur-de-lys, he settled on Childeric's bees as symbols of the French Empire.
		On the night of November 5-6, 1831, the treasure of Childeric was among 80 kilos of treasure stolen from the Library and melted down for the gold.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/c/ch/childeric_i.php (533 words)

	Childeric I - FREE Childeric I Biography \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Childeric I, c.436-481, Merovingian king of the Salian Franks (c.457-481), a Germanic tribe; son of Meroveus and father of Clovis I. Information on him is mostly legendary.
		Clothar III or Childeric II, with the intercession of his mother Queen Balthild, gave Saint-Aignan immunity in 657-673 or 673-675.40 In the Carolingian...
		The Merovingian dynasty began to wane in the early eighth century and finally collapsed in 756 with the deposition of Childeric III, who was replaced by the first Carolingian king, Pepin the Short.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Childeri.html (801 words)

	The Oxford Merovingian Page
		Childebert (III) the Adopted, King of Austrasia 656/7-61/2, (son of Grimoald Mayor of the Palace), adopted by Sigebert III?.
		Childeric II, King of Austrasia 662-75, King of Neustria and Burgundy 673-5, brother, assassinated by Bodilo in Forest of Livry in Picardy.
		Childeric III, King of all kingdoms 743-51 (son of Theuderic IV or Chilperic II?).
	www.j-paine.org /merovingian.html (1784 words)

	Ron Schuler's Parlour Tricks: Exile in France
		Childeric III, known as "Childeric the Lazy," King of the Franks (743-deposed 751), the last of the Merovingian kings of France, died on this day in 755 in a monastery near St. Omer, France.
		Childeric III became king of the Franks in 743, during the end of a period marked by the relative weakness of the kings' authority as compared to the power wielded by mayor of the palace in Paris.
		While the exact political reasons are obscured by history (although Childeric's sobriquet may provide at least a germ of an answer), mayor Pepin the Short asked Pope Zacharias for permission to sack Childeric III and take over the Frankish throne.
	rsparlourtricks.blogspot.com /2007/08/exile-in-france.html (230 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - From Merovingians to Carolingians - Dynastic Change in Frankia
		When the last Merovingian king - Childeric III - was deposed in 751, the Merovingians were the oldest ruling dynasty in western Europe.
		Both Pippin III and Carloman I had been educated at St Denis, and Fulrad was one of Pippin’s closest advisers.
		Childeric III and his son were tonsured and sent off to a monastery.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A251542 (3304 words)

	The Merovingians
		It reigned on Gaul from the 5th to the 8th century that means from Clovis I (481-511) to Childeric III (743-751).
		In the winter of 751-752 the last Merovingian King, Childeric III, was deposed and the Carolingian Pepin the Short was elected King in his place.
		The Merovingian dynasty continued formally with Thierry IV and Childéric III who was removed in 751 and this was the end of the dynasty.
	www.ordotempli.org /the_merovingians.htm (1087 words)

	Childeric I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He died in 481 and was buried in Tournai, leaving a son Clovis, afterwards king of the Franks.
		Napoleon was more impressed with Childeric's bees when he was looking for a heraldic symbol to trump the Bourbon fleur-de-lys.
		He settled on Childeric's bees as symbols of the French Empire.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Childeric_I (407 words)

	Childeric III: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Childeric III (died about 751[Click link for more facts about this topic]), EHandler: no quick summary.
		Childeric was dethroned and placed in the monastery of St Omer Saint-Omer quick summary:
		Clotaire iii (652 - 673) was a son of king clovis ii....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ch/childeric_iii2.htm (752 words)

	Pippin III
		Pippin III (714 - 768) more often known as Pippin the Short (French, Pépin le Bref; German, Pippin der Kleine), was King of the Franks from 751 - 768.
		Childeric was unable to fulfill the most important function of a Frankish king, namely, to provide his warriors with a constant source of booty; Pippin was thus able to demonstrate to the leading men of the Franks that, as a better military leader, he was more qualified to be their king.
		Pippin III died at Saint Denis on September 24, 768 and is interred there in the Abbey Basilica with his wife Bertrada (720 - July 12, 783).
	www.factspider.com /pi/pippin-iii.html (420 words)

	Reference for Merovingian - Search.com
		They were sometimes referred to as the "long-haired kings" (Latin reges criniti) by contemporaries, for their symbolically unshorn hair (traditionally the tribal leader of the Franks wore his hair long, as distinct from the Romans and the tonsured clergy).
		Childeric's son Clovis I went on to unite most of Gaul north of the Loire under his control around 486, when he defeated Syagrius, the Roman ruler in those parts.
		Among the greatest discoveries of lost objects was the 1653 accidental uncovering of Childeric I's tomb in the church of Saint Brice in Tournai.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Merovingian (2982 words)

	merovingiaenc.html
		Childeric I, and perhaps Merovech before him, was an active ally of the Roman Empire and was himself a Roman official.
		Childeric II of Austrasia (662-75) was important enough to be murdered in a vendetta, and for a time Theuderic III (673-90/91) actually did rule rather than merely reign.
		However, in 751 Pepin was secure enough to depose Childeric III and arrange his own election as king of the Franks, thus ending the Merovingian dynasty and inaugurating that of the Carolingians.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/french/web/Vessely/vessely/merovingiaenc.html (1049 words)

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		King Childeric II of the Franks was born in 653 in Unknown.
		The pivot of the foreign policy of Christian III was his alliance with the German Evangelical princes, as a counterpoise to the persistent hostility of Charles V, who was determined to support the hereditary claims of his nieces, the daughters of Christian II, to the Scandinavian kingdoms.
		The son of Frederick III of Denmark and Sophia Amelia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was born at Flensburg.
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	700 - 900
		Pippin III (714 - 768) more often known as Pippin the Short (French, Pépin le Bref; German, Pippin der Kleine), was King of the Franks from 751 - 768.
		Childeric was unable to fulfill the most important function of a Frankish king, namely, to provide his warriors with a constant source of booty; Pippin was thus able to demonstrate to the leading men of the Franks that, as a better military leader, he was more qualified to be their king.
		Pippin III died at Saint Denis on September 24, 768 and is interred there in the Abbey Basilica with his wife Bertrada (720 - July 12, 783).
	faculty.ucc.edu /egh-damerow/700_-_900.htm (924 words)

	Rulers of France: Kings, Queens, Presidents
		Pepin's son, Charles, called Martel (the Hammer), defeated the Saracens at Tours-Poitiers, 732; was succeeded by his son, Pepin the Short, 741, who deposed Childeric III and ruled as king until 768.
		Crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III in St. Peter's, Rome, Dec. 25, 800.
		By her marriage to Henry II she became the mother of Francis II, Charles IX, Henry III, and Queen Margaret (Reine Margot), wife of Henry IV.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=226835 (1531 words)

	Childeric III Information
		Childeric III (died about 754), called either the Idiot or the Phantom King, king of the Franks, was the fourteenth and last king of the Merovingian dynasty.
		The throne had been vacant for seven years when the mayors of the palace, Carloman and Pepin the Short, decided in 743 to recognize Childeric as king.
		Cochet, J.B.D. Le Tombeau de Childeric I, roi des Francs (Paris, 1859).
	www.bookrags.com /Childeric_III (278 words)

	Childeric II - (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His brother Clotaire III was briefly sole king of the Franks from 661 and gave him Austrasia the next year.
		In 662, although a child, he was proclaimed king of Austrasia, while his brother, Clotaire III, continued to rule over the rest of the dominions of their father Clovis.
		Childeric soon removed him and took over his realm, becoming King of all the Franks.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Childeric_II (281 words)

	Merovingian - QuickSeek Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Childeric's son Clovis I went on to unite most of Gaul north of the Loire under his control around 486, when he defeated Syagrius, the Roman ruler in those parts.
		In 751, Childeric III, the last Merovingian royal, was deposed.
		Among the greatest discoveries of lost objects was the 1653 accidental uncovering of Childeric I's tomb in the church of Saint Brice in Tournai.
	merovingians.quickseek.com (1792 words)

	Childeric III - Conservapedia
		Childeric III was the last Merovingian King of the Franks, reigning from A.D. 743 to 751.
		Scholars widely consider him as a highly ineffective and worthless monarch dominated by his advisors.
		This overeliance led to the Mayor of the Palace Pepin Martel summoning a council of nobles at Soissons which deposed Childeric and replaced him with Pepin, as King Pepin the Short.
	www.conservapedia.com /Childeric_III (85 words)

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