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Frankies 457 Spuntino is an Italian restaurant and olive oil company located in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, New York established in 2004 by Frank Castronovo and Frank Falcinelli. [ 1 ] According to Laura Shunk of The Village Voice , the restaurant is considered one of the fourteen essential Italian restaurants in Brooklyn and is known as ...
The earliest group of Franks that rose to prominence was the Salian Merovingians, who conquered most of Roman Gaul, as well as the Gaulish territory of the Visigothic Kingdom, following the Battle of Vouillé in 507 AD. The sons of Clovis I, the first King of the Franks, conquered the Burgundian and the Alamanni Kingdoms.
Franks answered the call and fought in the battle of the Catalaunian Fields in a temporary alliance with Romans and Visigoths, which temporarily ended the Hunnic threat to Western Europe. Signet ring of Childeric I, king of the Salian Franks from 457 to 481.
Merovech (French: Mérovée, Merowig; Latin: Meroveus; c. 411 – 458) [1] was the ancestor of the Merovingian dynasty. He was reportedly a king of the Salian Franks, but records of his existence are mixed with legend and myth.
The Merovingian dynasty (/ ˌ m ɛ r ə ˈ v ɪ n dʒ i ə n /) was the ruling family of the Franks from around the middle of the 5th century until Pepin the Short in 751. [1] They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul.
Salian Franks r. 457–481 /482: Clovis I 466–511 King of the Franks r. 509–511: Chlothar I c. 497 –561 King of the Franks r. 558–561: Chilperic I c. 539 ...
Ulrich Nonn (map p. 37, and pp. 99–100), following his teacher Eugen Ewig, believes that the exile story reflects a real sequence of events whereby Childeric was a leader of "Salian" or "Belgian" Franks based in the Romanized areas conquered by Chlodio, who were allies under the lordship of Aegidius, but eventually able to take over his power ...
457, Battle of Campi Cannini – Alemanni invade Italy and are defeated near Lake Maggiore by Majorian; 554, Battle of the Volturnus – Byzantine General Narses defeats a combined force of Franks and Alemanni in southern Italy.