Merovingian

How To Use Merovingian In A Sentence

• Abbé Hoffet was then very alert despite his eighty years, and all his life he had attempted to establish a legitimate line of descent of Dagobert II, the saint, that is to say a Merovingian line down to our day. The Sion Revelation
• The Merovingian kings were not boorish illiterates, but were able to read and write.
• Brown follows Margaret Starbird in deriving the dynastic name Merovingian from the French "mer" for sea and "vigne" for vine. Dan Brown's statement to the court tells us how little he knows
• The seneschal began presumably by being the major-domo of the German barbarian princes who settled in the empire, and was therefore the predecessor of the mayors of the palace of the Merovingian kings.
• In the time of the Merovingian kings, the Pont de l' Alma was an underground chamber.
• He urged Church reform on the Merovingians, reviving the vicariate of Arles at their request.
• But the subjects of the Merovingian kings might alienate their personal freedom; and this act of legal suicide, which was familiarly practised, is expressed in terms most disgraceful and afflicting to the dignity of human nature. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• A collection of verse panegyrics and occasional poems for the Merovingian kings and their courtiers also survives from the pen of the late sixth-century Italian poet Venantius Fortunatus.
• So also did the governmental structures of the Merovingian kingdom.
• It is important to note that hairstyle was sometimes a marker of class or gens, as among the Merovingians.