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The Franks, Germanic-speaking peoples that invaded the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, were first led by individuals called dukes and reguli. 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 ...
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 751. [1] They first appear as "Kings of the Franks" in the Roman army of northern Gaul. By 509 they had united all the Franks and northern Gallo-Romans under their rule.
The Chamavi are called Franks in the Tabula Peutingeriana, [16] a 13th-century copy of a 4th or 5th century atlas of Roman roads that reflects information from the 3rd century. [17] The Chattuari were described as Franks living across from Xanten in an account of a Roman attack in 360 AD, [ 18 ] and the Bructeri were also described as Franks ...
The Kingdom of the Franks (Latin: Regnum Francorum), also known as the Frankish Kingdom, or just Francia, was the largest post-Roman barbarian kingdom in Western Europe. It was ruled by the Frankish Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties during the Early Middle Ages .
Merovingian art is the art of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, which lasted from the 5th century to the 8th century in present-day France, Benelux and a part of Germany. The advent of the Merovingian dynasty in Gaul in the 5th century led to important changes in the field of arts.
In the first half of the 7th century the Ripuarians received the Ripuarian law (Lex Ripuaria), a law code applying only to them, from the dominating Salian Franks. The Salians, following the custom of the Romans before them, were mainly re-authorizing laws already in use by the Ripuarians, so that the latter could retain their local constitution.
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.
Approximate location of the Frankish tribes in the 3rd century. The Franks were a group of Germanic people who found their mythological and spiritual origins in pre-Christian Germanic Paganism. They invaded Gaul in the 4th and 5th centuries, and became the dominant force in the region of present-day France and Western Germany.