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Merovingian

adjective

Of or relating to the Merovingian dynasty or its members.

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... contained wells of womanly wisdom. Her skin, fair as a lily of Artois, had borrowed from the sun five or six faint freckles, just to prove the purity of her blood and distract the eye with a variety of charms. The Merovingian Princess, the long-haired daughter of kings, as she was fondly styled by the nuns, queened it wherever she went by right divine of ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... Duke Hwan of western Shantung, is famous for having nine times convoked the States-General. The dictator always presided at such meetings and he was recognised as the real sovereign—as were the mayors of the palace in France in the Merovingian epoch, or the shoguns in Japan during the long period in which the Mikado was called the ...

— The Awakening of China • W.A.P. Martin

... under their dreaded chief, Clovis, flourished for a time; but eventually the kings of his line became so weak in character and so wicked in conduct as to be unfit to rule, and the country fell into a state of wretched disorder. At last these Merovingian princes became so utterly incapable that the kingly authority fell into the hands of certain state officials ...

— With Spurs of Gold - Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds • Frances Nimmo Greene

... family of kings to which he belonged is known in history as the Merovingian dynasty. It was so called from Meroveus (Me-ro-ve'-us), the father of Childeric ...

— Famous Men of The Middle Ages • John H. Haaren, LL.D. and A. B. Poland, Ph.D.

Words linked to "Merovingian" : Merovingian dynasty, monarch, dynasty, crowned head, sovereign