After the death of Clovis there were frequent clashes between different branches of the family, but when threatened by its neighbours the Merovingians presented a strong united front.

Numerous Merovingians who served as bishops and abbots, or who generously funded abbeys and monasteries, were rewarded with sainthood.

The Merovingians were short-lived and were succeeded by the Carolingian Dynasty.

By the end of the 8th century, the Low Countries formed a part of Francia and the Merovingians were replaced by the Carolingian dynasty.

Honey bees, signifying immortality and resurrection, were royal emblems of the Merovingians, revived by Napoleon.

After Austrasia and Neustria were reunited in one kingdom, Pepin III — Major Domo since 747 — took the crown of the Merovingians in 751 to establish the line of Carolingian kings.

Pursuing the theory of JB Dubos, but also transforming it, he maintained that those invasions were not marked by the violent and destructive character usually attributed to them ; that the penetration of the German barbarians into Gaul was a slow process ; that the Germans submitted to the imperial administration ; that the political institutions of the Merovingians had their origins in the Roman laws at least as much as, if not more than, in German usages ; and, consequently, that there was no conquest of Gaul by the Germans.

The Merovingians were a hereditary monarchy.

During the joint reign of Chlothar and Dagobert, who have been called " the last ruling Merovingians ", the Saxons, who had been loosely attached to Francia since the late 550s, rebelled under Duke Berthoald and were defeated and reincorporated into the kingdom by the joint action of father and son.

The parchments said the Merovingians were descended from the Tribe of Benjamin and Dagobert II had hidden an ‘ accursed ’ treasure in Rennes-le-Château.

Other parts of the Merovingians ' Roman inheritance were presented to the Abbey by king of the Franks Pepin the Short.

Whether they were blood relatives of the Merovingians, Frankish envoys turned dynastic rulers or local non-Frankish rulers is still a matter of debate.

The Pippinids or Arnulfings are the members of a family of Frankish nobles whose select scions served as Mayor of the Palace, de facto rulers, of the Frankish kingdoms of Neustria and Austrasia that were nominally ruled by the Merovingians.

This was meant to disprove the notion put forwards by the Da Vinci Code that the Merovingians were descended from Jesus, though Aregund was merely married into the dynasty, not a blood descendant-so presumably the results of this test are irrelevant.

After the collapse of imperial authority in the West, the Frankish tribes were united under the Merovingians.

The Salians, who eventually became the Merovingians, were first mentioned by Ammianus Marcellinus, who described Julian's defeat of " the first Franks of all, those whom custom has called the Salians ," in 358.

The Merovingians were capable of raising naval forces: the naval campaign waged against the Danes by Theuderic I in 515 involved ocean-worthy ships and rivercraft were used on the Loire, Rhone, and Rhine.

Many daily activities centred around the multiple deities, chiefest of which may have been the Quinotaur, a water-god from whom the Merovingians were reputed to have derived their ancestry.

Following the Frankish victory at the Battle of Soissons in 486 AD, Gaul ( except for Septimania ) came under the rule of the Merovingians, the first kings of France.

In 613, Clotaire II reunited the Frankish Kingdom under his rule, and the region remained a part of the Kingdom of Burgundy under the later Merovingians and Carolingians.

Despite its nominal submission to the Merovingians, the ethnic make-up of new realm Aquitaine wasn ´ t Frankish, but Gallo-Roman north of the Garonne and main towns and Basque, especially south of the Garonne.

Gregory lived also on the border between the Frankish culture of the Merovingians to the north and the Gallo-Roman culture of the south of Gaul.

The first Frankish royal dynasty called themselves Merovingians (" descendants of Meroveus ") after him.

Another explanation holds that the sea monster which could change shape is actually the Roman form of government ; and that the Merovingians and their Frankish legacy would indeed continue the legal and cultural tradition of the Roman Empire throughout Central and Northern Europe ( and thus the world ) in direct and indirect ways.

By marrying two daughters to Frankish kings, he may have intended to involve the Merovingians in the Visigothic succession.

The Early Middle Ages includes the Migration period ( also referred to as the " Dark Ages "), the Ostrogoths and Visigoths, the Merovingians, Anglo-Saxon England, the Frankish Empire and the Viking Age.

A sizeable portion of the Frankish aristocracy quickly followed Clovis in converting to Christianity ( the Frankish church of the Merovingians ).

Namur came to prominence during the early Middle Ages when the Merovingians built a castle or citadel on the rocky spur overlooking the town at the confluence of the two rivers.

Almost immediately afterwards, Gaul came under the rule of the Merovingians, the first kings of France.

The kingdom is considered family property, so many divisions have occurred under the Merovingians ( the first since the death of Clovis in 511 ), and later under the rule of the Carolingians in which the Treaty of Verdun of 843 gave birth to independent territories.

The last vestige of Roman rule was effaced by the Franks at the Battle of Soissons ( 486 ); displacing the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse in 507, the Franks brought most of Gaul, except Septimania in the south, under the rule of the Merovingians, the first kings of France.

The francisca ( or francesca ) is a throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks, among whom it was a characteristic national weapon at the time of the Merovingians from about 500 to 750 and is known to have been used during the reign of Charlemagne ( 768 – 814 ).

* 496, War between Merovingians and Alemanni for supremacy on the Rhine, Franks defeat the Alemanni in a decisive battle, Alemannic King Gibuld dies in battle, Alemanni subject to the Merovingians, Begin of Christianization of the Franks, Begin of Christianization of Europe.

Liber historiae Francorum () is a book that briefly starts as secondary source for early Franks in the time of Marcomer, and it gives a short breviarum of events until the time of the late Merovingians, where it becomes an important primary source of the contemporaneous history.

The Franks under the Merovingians melded Germanic custom with Romanized organisation and several important tactical innovations.

These are additions made by the king of the Franks to the barbarian laws promulgated under the Merovingians, the Salic law, the Ripuarian or the Bavarian.

Very little is in fact known about the course of the 7th century due to a scarcity of sources, but Merovingians remained in power until the 8th century.

The unification achieved by the Merovingians ensured the continuation of what has become known as the Carolingian Renaissance.

Chlodio's family, the Merovingians, extended Francia even further south.

Under the Merovingians and Carolingians, the fisc ( from Latin fiscus, whence we derive " fiscal ") applied to the royal demesne which paid taxes, entirely in kind, from which the royal household was meant to be supported, though it rarely was.

In 732 or 737 — modern scholars have debated over the date — Charles marched against an Arab army between Poitiers and Tours and defeated it in a watershed battle that turned back the tide of the Arab advance north of the Pyrenees ; but Charles ' real interests lay in the northeast, primarily with the Saxons, from whom he had to extort the tribute which for centuries they had paid to the Merovingians.

The Merovingians adopted the capitulary as a tool for the promulgation and preservation of royal ordinances.