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MEROVINGIANS - LoveToKnow Article on MEROVINGIANS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | The name is taken from Merovech, one of the first kings of the Salian Franks, who succeeded to Clodio in the middle of the 5th century, and soon became the centre of many legends. |
 | | The chronicler known as Fredegarius Scholasticus relates that a queen wa~ once sitting by the seashore, when a monster came out of the sea, ai~d by this monster she subsequently became the mother of Merovech, but this myth is due to an attempt to explain the heros name, which means the sea-born. |
 | | Merovech was the father of Childeric I. (457481), and grandfather of Clovis (481511), under whom the Salian Franks conquered the whole of Gaul, except the kingdom of Burgundy, Provence and Septimania. |
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