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Subject: Anscestory of Merovech?
From: jheikkil@@highlander.cbnet.ns.ca (saint_bubba)
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 06:44:08 GMT
Message-ID: <55rt7v$m81@@news.nstn.ca>

As part of research looking into the Merovingian dynasty, I haven't been able to locate any information that would point to the parents
and other descendents of Merovech, King of the Franks from c.e.  447-458. 
He is also often called Merovee. 
I know the rumours that he was descended from the tribe of Benjamin when they became the Sicambrian Franks, but I can't find anything to substantiate this.
Any help would be appreciated.[Joanne's Tree.1 GED.GED]

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Note: Some ill-advised and naiive people claim that
          MEROVEE was descended from JESUS CHRIST and
          MARY MAGDALENE. He himself claimed descent from
          ODIN.

The Merovingians were a dynasty of kings that ruled the Franks, a Germanic tribe from 481 to 751. The kings were descendants of the chief of the Salian Franks, Merovech, who ruled from 448 to 458 and from whom the dynasty's name was derived.The first Merovingian ruler was Clovis l, grandson of Merovech. Clovis became king of both the Salian and Ripaurian Franks. In  addition, through an aggressive policy of conquest supported by the church, Clovis enlarged his kingdom until itincluded most of present day France and part of Germany. After his death in 511 the kingdom was devided among his four sons into Austrasia, Neustria, Burgundy, and Aquitaine. The divisions were reunited by Clotair I, divided after his death,then reunited under Clotaire II.
The last strong Merovingian monarch was the son of Clotaire II, Dagobert I who ruled from 629 to 639. Under his numerous successors the Frankish kingdom became decentralized. Royal power gradually gave way to the noble families who exercisedfeudal control over most of the land. The most important of these families was the Carlongian. The Carolingians held the office of mayor of the palace and after 639 were kings in all but name. In 751 the Carolingian mayor of the palace deposed the reigning king, Childeric III (reigned about 743-52), and assumed royal power himself as Pepin the Short, putting an end to the Merovingian dynasty.

GIVN Merovee (Merovacus) King of
SURN Franks
NSFX **
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! RELATIONSHIP:  Patron, H. Reed Black, is 43rd G G Son.

TYPE Book
AUTH Stuart, Roderick W.
PERI Royalty for Commoners
EDTN 3d
PUBL Genealogical Publishing co., Inc, Baltimore, MD (1998)
ISB 0-8063-1561-X
TEXT 303-53
ACED
DATE 0448...defeated Attila "the Hun" (451); was a son or son-in-law of Clodion
TYPE Book
AUTH Stuart, Roderick W.
PERI Royalty for Commoners
EDTN 3d
PUBL Genealogical Publishing co., Inc, Baltimore, MD (1998)
ISB 0-8063-1561-X
DATE 19 MAY 2000

GIVN Merovacus King_of
SURN Salic_Franks
Ancestry and Progeny of Captain James Blount - Inmigrant. by RobertFfafman
p. E- 25.

DATE 31 MAY 2000