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	Merovingian
		The Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a (frequently fluctuating) area in parts of present-day France and Germany from the 5th to 8th century AD.
		The Merovingian dynasty (see List of Frankish Kings) owes its name to Merovech (sometimes Latinised 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.
		After the death of Childeric III in 751, the Merovingians were succeeded by the Carolingian dynasty.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/me/Merovingian.html (148 words)

	Merovingian - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Merovingian is the leader of a group of Exiles, employs The Twins and others as his henchmen, holds the Keymaker prisoner, and controls the Trainman.
		Also, when the Merovingian is first seen at his table, he has five glasses at his seat, while Persephone (perhaps his analog of Trinity) has three chocolates on her plate.
		Perhaps the Merovingian was the program that added cause-effect elements to Matrix beta 2 (the second version of the Matrix described by the Architect that also resulted in failure) to bring a level of simulated choice in order to keep human minds from rejecting it.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Merovingian (700 words)

	Merovingian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Merovingian, dynasty of kings that ruled the Franks, a Germanic tribe, from ad481 to 751.
		In the West, Merovingian kings and queens laid the foundations for the formation of much of Europe.
		The Merovingian, or pre-Carolingian, script written in France during the 7th and 8th centuries was reformed during the reign of the emperor...
	encarta.msn.com /Merovingian.html (120 words)

	Merovingian Dynasty - Crystalinks
		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.
		Between 561 and 613, the various branches of the Merovingian house engaged in an intermittent and bloody war over the succession to the kingship, which ended with the family's effective rule notably diminished, though their increasingly token presence was required to legitimate any action.
	www.crystalinks.com /merovingian.html (852 words)

	Merovingian Mythos: Its Symbolic Significance and its Roots in the Ancient Kingdom of Atlantis
		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.
		That the Merovingian bloodline came from elsewhere is clear because of the legend that surrounds their founder, King Merovee, who is said to have been the spawn of a "Quinotaur," a giant fish or a sea monster, who raped his mother when she went out to swim in the ocean.
		In fact, he comes from that dynasty of kings who reigned over the antediluvian world and who were all associated with the sea, as well as this divine animal imagery.
	www.21stcenturyradio.com /merovingian-twyman.htm (4565 words)

	Germany - The Merovingian Dynasty 500-751 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Clovis, a Salian Frank belonging to a family supposedly descended from a mythical hero named Merovech, became the absolute ruler of a Germanic kingdom of mixed Roman-Germanic population in 486.
		The remaining 250 years of the dynasty, however, were marked by internecine struggles and a gradual decline.
		During the period of Merovingian rule, the Franks reluctantly began to adopt Christianity following the baptism of Clovis, an event that inaugurated the alliance between the Frankish kingdom and the Roman Catholic Church.
	countrystudies.us /germany/5.htm (146 words)

	Merovingian Sorcerer Kings - Part 2 by Peter Farley
		Skulls found of Merovingian monarchs bear what appears to be a ritual incision or hole in the crown, the artificial means by which one can open the spiritual insight of a being-through his crown chakra.
		Even after their conversion to Christianity the Merovingian rulers, like the patriarchs of the Old Testament and the sorcerer-kings of ancient Atlantis, were polygamous-a probable source for Joseph Smith's introduction of polygamy to Mormonism.
		With the death of Dagobert, the main lineage of the Merovingians was deposed.
	www.ufodigest.com /bloodline-part2.html (2606 words)

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		The Merovingian dynasty continued formally with Thierry IV and Childéric III who was removed in 751 and this was the end of the dynasty.
		In 751 the Merovingian dynasty was overthrown by the Frankish noble Pepin the Short.
		March 28, 845: Paris (la Ville Lumière), the capital of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, is sacked by a group of marauding Viking pirates.
	www.lycos.com /info/merovingian-dynasty.html (586 words)

	The Merovingian Kings - Mary Magdalene
		Merovingian is the name of the 'power man' in the Matrix series, the one with the sexy wife, Perseophone.
		In history, the Merovingians were a dynasty in what is now France, which was at the time called the Frankish area.
		One of their myths is that the ancestress of the Merovingians was a mermaid and another says that the mother of Merovee' was impregnated by a sea monster.
	www.lisashea.com /hobbies/art/merovingian.html (1473 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Franks
		This family was known as the Merovingians, from the name of one of its members, to whom national tradition had ascribed a sea-god as ancestor.
		The Merovingian dynasty, traditionally accustomed to absolutism, and incapable of altering its point of view, was gradually deprived of all exercise of authority.
		Einhard describes the character of the royalty of the last Merovingians whom the princes of Pepin's family tolerated or replaced upon the throne.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06238a.htm (5020 words)

	German6
		The Merovingian King of the Franks, Clovis died in the year 511 after defeating the Visigoths at Vouille, and extending the Frankish Kingdom to the Garonne River.
		The leader of the nobles, in their clash with the Merovingian ruling family, was a man from Landen by the name of Pepin.
		The Merovingian dynasty came to an end and the Carolingian dynasty was begun.
	www.motherbedford.com /German6.htm (1088 words)

	Re-assessing Merovingian Metalworking
		The Merovingian dynasty lasted from the mid-fifth to the mid-eighth centuries A.D. and at its height controlled states that stretched across France, Belgium, Germany west of the Rhineland, and most of Switzerland.
		The Merovingian dynasty lasted from the mid-fifth to the mid-eighth centuries A.D. At its height, members of the Merovingian family controlled states that stretched across the geographically and culturally diverse areas of France, Belgium, Germany west of the Rhineland, and most of Switzerland (Figure A).
		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.tms.org /pubs/journals/jom/0508/ehrenreich-0508.html (3536 words)

	Ninth Century
		The Merovingian dynasty issued from the great horde of Germanic peoples that had moved down from Scandinavia and were settled on the northern confines of the Roman Empire.
		This dynasty was founded by Mérovée (also Merovech or Merovius), a chieftain of the Sicambrian tribe in the early fifth century.
		The Merovingian king ruled supreme because de facto they were exalted as priest-kings; and they were not expected to immerse themselves in mundane governmental matters but to simply be: the king ruled but did not govern.
	www.overlordsofchaos.com /html/ninth_century.html (3705 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Merovingian Dynasty
		The Merovingians maintained an uninterrupted, unquestioned reign over Gaul and West Germany for three centuries; but, in spite of their achievements, history largely ignored the likes of Clovis I for the more enigmatic Arthur, or the more imperial Charlemagne, both of whom had better publicists.
		Most of the actual administration of the Merovingian kingdom was carried out by a Mayor of the Palace, a kind of prime minister; and during the last 100 years of Merovingian rule, more and more power slipped into the hands of the mayors.
		The kings of the Late Merovingian period are often referred to as les rois faineants or the feeble kings, partly due to their lack of authority, but mostly because the average age of ascendants was six
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A228025 (796 words)

	Merovingian Dynasty
		The Merovingians grew in strength and power and cemented their control under Childeric I (about 457-481) when he defeated the Visigoths, Saxons and Alamanni.
		He was a Frankish king, and a member of the Merovingian dynasty, one of the four sons of Clovis.
		The Merovingian boy-kings remained ineffective rulers who inherited the throne as young children and lived only long enough to produce a male heir or two, while real power lay in the hands of the noble families (the Old Noblesse) who exercised feudal control over most of the land.
	www.paris-walking-tours.com /merovingiandynasty.html (3734 words)

	Merovingian Analysis - MFN Forums
		The Merovingian Dynasty was the first major political authority which rose out of the ashes of the dying Roman Empire in Europe.
		This could mean that Merovingian is a decendant from the orginal One (from this point on, I will refer to the original one, as "the original".) He is not the One however, he is just a decendant.
		Merovingian holds his mansion together with his mind (which is why Trinity and everyone else will die if she shoots him, the mansion will collaspe).
	forums.matrixfans.net /showthread.php?t=1532 (1644 words)

	Random thoughts
		The Merovingian dynasty was a family of kings that ruled over parts of France in the years 447-751, hence the French accent of the Merovingian in the movie.
		According to research the Merovingian family is the same as the mythological Grail family, which lived in the mountainous Avalon, thought to be the Pyrenees, hence the location of the castle of the Merovingian in the movie.
		Why the Merovingian uses vampires as helpers I don't know, although considering his real-life counterpart as "royal bloodline" it might just be the focus on "blood" and "live forever in secrecy" that are the reasons.
	jroller.com /page/rickard?entry=reloaded_analogies_the_merovingian (612 words)

	Royalty.nu - Royal History - Empire of the Franks - Merovingian Dynasty
		Presents the Merovingian period as an integral part of late antiquity, tracing the Romanization of barbarians and the barbarization of the Romans which ultimately made these populations indistinguishable.
		Frankish patronage of liturgy started in the Merovingian period, but it was the Carolingians who used it to ease the acceptance of new political ideals.
		This survey of the development of the Frankish Church under the Merovingian and Carolingian kings (approximately AD 500-900) is the first of its kind to appear in English.
	www.royalty.nu /history/empires/Frankish.html (2024 words)

	The Merovingians, Merovingian Dynasty
		The Priory was founded with one objective, to restore the Merovingian house to the throne of France and indeed the continent of Europe.
		The skulls of many of the monarchs and been ritually trepanned, a ritual reflecting the old belief that the soul resided in the head and correspondingly trepanning was designed to allow the spirit of the deceased easy passage to the afterlife.
		Perhaps the most extraordinary claim made for the Merovingian lineage relates to events that took place 2,000 years ago; there are many assertions that the Merovingians were descended from the blood of Jesus Christ and the woman he allegedly married, Mary Magdalene, we will return to this point later.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /esp_merovingios_1.htm (6071 words)

	Merovingian Calligraphy
		Experts on the scribal arts are not a judgmental lot, but Merovingian calligraphy is one area in which they venture a critical toe outside the boundaries of their scholasticism.
		Merovingian is just one of the styles of writing that evolved shortly after the fall of Rome.
		Merovingian evolved from a fabulous array of sources, the oldest of which was the littera caelestia used for all imperial Roman documents after 367A.D. It was a rather scribbly cursive, written with a pointed (intead of a broad-edged) pen, and was just barely legible to the officials of the day.
	www.housebarra.com /EP/ep07/10calli.html (1221 words)

	Merovingian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Merovingian, dynasty of kings that ruled the Franks, a Germanic tribe, from ad 481 to 751.
		Clovis’s dynasty, the Merovingian, named after its founder, Merovech or Merowig (reigned 448-458), ruled until 751.
		- of Frankish dynasty: belonging or relating to a dynasty of Frankish kings that was founded by Clovis I and reigned in Gaul and Germany from about ad 500 to 751
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Merovingian.html (135 words)

	Matrix Online WarCry™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A Program from an earlier version of the Matrix, the Merovingian holds a great deal of power and leads a group of exiled programs up in the mountains.
		The Merovingian controls the Mobil Avenue, the place between the machine world and the matrix that programs have to go through in order to reach the matrix if they are to become exiles.
		The Merovingian kings appointed magnates to be comites, counts, charging them with defense, administration, and the judgement of disputes.
	tmo.warcry.com /index.php/content/whoare/merovingian.php (733 words)

	Kenneth Grant and the Merovingian Mythos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Merovingian blood is the blood of kings, the kings or gods from ancient Sumeria and beyond.
		The bees, which are a recurring symbol of the Merovingians are, in the Typhonian Tradition, represented frequently as the humming or buzzing sound that occurs before the appearance of the Great Old Ones or “beings” proper to this tradition.
		The Merovingian Dynasty - Satanic Bloodline of the Antichrist & False Prophet
	www.red-ice.net /specialreports/2005/12dec/merovingianmythos.html (2626 words)

	The Merovingian Dynasty: Satanic Bloodline of the Antichrist & False Prophet
		The Merovingian Dynasty: Satanic Bloodline of the Antichrist and False Prophet
		Many of the popes were Merovingian monks who forced masses of European Jews to convert to Roman Catholicism., with the result that the Church incorporated traditions from both Judaism, the Talmud and the Kabbalah.
		As previously stated, the Merovingians boast that the founder of their dynasty, King Meroveus, a worshiper of the virgin goddess Diana of the Nine Fires, was sired by a 'beast of the sea'—Neptune, god of the sea and founder of Atlantis.
	watch.pair.com /merovingian.html (9186 words)

	Dark Ages and Merovingians
		Allegedly, the Merovingian* dynasty issued from the Sicambrians, a tribe of the Germanic people collectively known as the Franks.
		The Merovingians, like the ancient Arcadians, worshipped the bear in the form of Artemis -- or, more specifically, the form of her Gaelic equivalent, Arduina, patron goddess of the Ardennes.
		The Sicambrian ancestors of the Merovingians then crossed the Rhine and moved en masse into Gaul, establishing themselves in what is now Belgium and northern France, in the vicinity of the Ardennes.
	www.halexandria.org /dward216.htm (725 words)

	Eclectic Content article: The Merovingian
		The Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a (frequently fluctuating) area in present-day France from the 5th to the 8th century AD.
		The Dynasty emerges into wider history with the victories of Childeric I (reigned about 457-481) against the Visigoths, Saxons and Alamanni.
		Childeric's son Clovis I went on to unite most of Gaul north of the Loire (486), to adopt Roman Catholicism (496), and to conquer the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse (battle of Vouillé, 507).
	www.lyberty.com /encyc/articles/merovingian.html (161 words)

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