General Notes

1  NAME /Saint Arnoul/
1  BIRT
2  DATE 13 AUG 582
2  PLAC Austrasia
ohme p 86 "Dagobert's chief advisers were two Austrasian aristocrats, ARNU
LF, bishop of Metz, and Pippin, who was made mayor of Dagobert's palac
e.  (It was a marriage arranged between Arnulf's son and Pippin's daught
er that was to form the powerful dynasty known later as the Carolingians
.) . . .  According to the chronicler Fredegar, . . . [he] clearly approv
ed of the way in which Dagobert tried to put local aristocrats, the real p
owers in the provinces, in their place.  He tells us of a royal visit to B
urgundy, for instance, which caused great alarm to bishops and aristocrat
s, and joy to the oppressed; 'such was his great good-will and eagerness t
hat he neighter ate nor slept, lest anyone should leave his presence witho
ut having obtained justice'.  For Fredegar things went sour when Arnulf re
tired and Dagobert left Pippin's side to take up residence in Neustria.  '
He forgot the justice he had once loved.' "
ema p 114 "Never king, [CHARLES Martel] exercised the office of mayor of t
he palace, which his forebears, the Arnulfings (so-called from their ances
tor Saint ARNULF of Metz and Pippinids, had exercised.  This office was t
he most important in the kingdom . . ."
p 88-9 "Frankish pride in their own achievement bore fruit in Dagobert's r
eign in the emergence of the tradition that the Franks were descended fr
om the Trojan royal family, and were thus equal to the Romans.  By the eig
hth century Franks would boast that they were superior to the Romans; Roma
ns had persecuted Christians, while the Franks were powerful protecto
rs of the Church."