The Merovingian kingdoms, 450-751

abbot Alamans Annales Mettenses Priores Aquitaine aristocracy Austrasia Auvergne Avitus Balthild barbarian Bertram bishop Boniface Brunhild Burgundian Burgundy Byzantine Capitularia Merowingica Carolingian Charibert Charles Childebert Chilperic Chilperic's Chlothar Chlothar III Chlothild Chronicle Church Clermont Clovis Clovis's coinage Columbanus cont Council court Dagobert daughter death Decem Libri Historiarum Desiderius despite Diplomata early Ebroin ecclesiastical Eligius emperor episcopal estates Euric evidence Francia Frankish kingdom Franks Fredegar Fredegund Gaul Goths Gregory of Tours Gregory's Gundovald Guntram Historia Langobardorum I.N. Wood involved Jonas later Leodegar Liber Historiae Francorum Lombard Luxeuil maior Medieval Merovech Merovingian Merovingian Gaul Merovingian history Merovingian kingdom Merovingian period monastery monastic monasticism murder narrative Neustria Nevertheless Pactus Legis Salicae Paris Passio Leudegarii Pertz Pippin Pippinid political Provence queen Radegund reign Roman royal saint seems seventh century Sidonius Apollinaris Sigibert sixth century surviving Testamentum Theudebert Theuderic Theuderic III Venantius Fortunatus Visigothic Vita Balthildis Vita Columbani Wallace-Hadrill