Merowech Kleinkönig der salischen Franken

• Preferred Name: Merowech Kleinkönig der salischen Franken^{[1] [2]}
  
• Alternate Name: Mérovech de los Francos King of the Salian Franks II
  
• Alternate Name: Merovée de Francie I
  
• Alternate Name: Merovech of Salian Francs
  
• Alternate Name: Merowech de Cologne Kleinkönig der salischen Franken
  
• Alternate Name: Mérovée des Francs
  
• Alternate Name: Merowech Kleinkönig der salischen Franken
  
• Alternate Name: Mérovée Merovic Mérovée, Merowig de Francie
  
• Alternate Name: Merovech of Salic Franks Merovingian
  
• Gender: M
  
• Religion: Pagan
  
• Tribe Name: with note: Description: Leader of the Frankish Tribes
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of TournaiBET 447 AND 458 in Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium at LATI: N0.607 LONG: E0.389
  
• Life+Sketch: with note: Description: founder of the Merovingian dynasty of the Salian Franks (although Chlodio may in fact be the founder), which later became the dominant Frankish tribe. He allegedly lived in the first half of the fifth century. His name is a Latinization of a form close to
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of Salic Franks 448-458
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: Merovingians Founder of the Clan
  
• FSID: LZ86-1NG
  
• Death: 457 in Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium at LATI: N0.607 LONG: E0.389
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of FranceBET 447 AND 458
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of the Salian Franks
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Founder of Merovingian Dynasty of Salian Franks, King des Francs
  
• MilitaryService: fought a civil war with his half-brother Chlodoric - son of Chlodio and Argotta451 in Gaul, Roman Empire
  
• Birth: 411 in Tours-sur-Meymont, Puy-de-Dôme, Auvergne, France at LATI: N5.6733 LONG: E0.5752
  
• Life+Sketch: with note: Description: One of several barbarian warlords and kings that joined forces with the Roman general Aetius against the Huns under Attila on the Catalaunian fields in Gaul
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: King of the Salian FranksBET 450 AND 458
  
• Burial: in Saint-Brice Church, Tournai, Arrondissement de Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium at LATI: N0.607 LONG: E0.389
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Wikipedia
  
  Gregory of Tours (II,9) reported that "Chlogio" (as he spells his name in Latin) attacked from a fort (castrum) named "Dispargum" on the edge of the "Thoringian" land, which is described as being west of the Rhine. One translation of what Gregory wrote, adding some Latin key words in square brackets:
  
  It is commonly said that the Franks came originally from Pannonia and first colonized the banks of the Rhine. Then they crossed the river, marched through Thuringia [Thoringiam transmeasse], and set up in each country district [pagus] and each city [civitas] long-haired kings chosen from the foremost and most noble family of their race. [...]
  
  They also say that Clodio, a man of high birth and marked ability among his people, was King of the Franks and that he lived in the castle of Duisberg [Dispargum castrum] in Thuringian territory [in terminum Thoringorum]. In those parts, that is towards the south, the Romans occupied the territory as far as the River Loire. [...]
  
  Clodio sent spies to the town of Cambrai. When they discovered all that they needed to know, he himself followed and crushed the Romans and captured the town. He lived there only a short time and then occupied the country up to the Somme. Some say that Merovech, the father of Childeric, was descended from Clodio.[4]
  This description of locations does not match the normal medieval and modern "Thuringia", which is far inland and east of the Rhine and Frankish areas.[2][5]
  
  Dispargum has therefore been interpreted many ways, for example possibly as Duisburg on the Rhine itself, or Duisburg near Brussels, or Diest, which is also in Belgium.[5] The latter two proposals would fit the geography well, because they are within striking distance of the Silva Carbonaria, and close to Toxandria, which is known to have been settled by the Salians in the time of Julian the Apostate. It requires "Thoringorum" (genitive case) to be referring to the "Civitas Tungrorum". This matches Gregory's previous mention in the same passage of how the Franks had earlier settled on the banks of the Rhine and then moved into "Thoringia" on the left side of the Rhine.
  
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  Merovech is the semi-legendary founder of the Merovingian dynasty of the Salian Franks (although either Childeric I, his supposed son, or Clovis I, his supposed grandson, also can be considered the founder), which later became the dominant Frankish tribe. He is proposed to be one of several barbarian warlords and kings that joined forces with the Roman general Aetius against the Huns under Attila at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in Gaul.
  
  The family of Childeric and Clovis, the first Frankish large-scale royal dynasty called themselves Merovingians ("descendants of Meroveus") after him, and this was known to historians in the following centuries, but no more contemporary evidence exists. The most important such written source, Gregory of Tours, recorded that Merovech was said to be descended from Chlodio, a roughly contemporary Frankish warlord who pushed from the Silva Carbonaria in modern central Belgium as far south as the Somme, north of Paris in modern-day France.
  
  The name "Merovech" is related to Marwig, lit. "famed fight" (compare modern Dutch mare "news, rumour"/vermaard "famous" as well as "(ge)vecht," "fight" with" -vech)."
  
  There is little information about him in the later histories of the Franks. Gregory of Tours named him only once as the father of Childeric I, but remained vague about his relationship to Chlodio. The "Chronicle of Fredegar" recounts that Merovech was born after Chlodio's wife encountered a sea creature while bathing in the sea; according to Fredegar it remained unclear whether Merovech's father was the creature or Chlodio. Another theory considers this legend to be the creation of a mythological past needed to back up the fast-rising Frankish rule in Western Europe.
  
  Clodio is said to have been defeated by Flavius Aëtius at Vicus Helena in Artois in 448. Historian Ian S. Wood therefore would place his son somewhere in the second half of the fifth century.
  
  A contemporary Roman historian, Priscus, writes of having witnessed in Rome a "lad without down on his cheeks as yet and with fair hair so long that it poured down his shoulders, Aetius had made him his adopted son," Priscus writes that the excuse Attila used for waging war on the Franks was the death of their king and the disagreement of his children over the succession, the elder being allied with Attila and the younger with Aetius. As Chlodio died just before Attila's invasion, this seems to suggest that Merovech was in fact Chlodio's son.
  
  The legend about Merovech's conception was adapted in 1982 by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln in their book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail," as the seed of a new idea. They hypothesized that this "descended from a fish" legend actually referred to the concept that the Merovingian line had married into the bloodline of Jesus Christ, since the symbol for early Christians also had been a fish. This theory, with no other basis than the authors' hypothesis, was further popularized in 2003 via Dan Brown's bestselling novel, "The Da Vinci Code." However, there was no evidence for this claim that Merovech is descended from Jesus.
  
  The identity and historicity of Merovech is one of the driving mysteries in "The Widow’s Son," second book of Robert Anton Wilson’s "The Historical Illuminatus Chronicles," first introducing the fish legend to the reader by having the early Merovingians appear in a vision as a hideous fish creature resembling H. P. Lovecraft’s Deep Ones, before settling on a variation on "Holy Blood, Holy Grail," which goes a step further by identifying Jesus and Mary Magdalene as the bridegroom and bride in "The Alchemical Marriage of Christian Rosycross" and Merovech as the titular Widow's Son from Masonic lore and positing that the entire bloodline is descended from alien-human hybrids.
  
  -- Wikiwand: Merovech
  
  === He is mentioned in Gregory of Tours’s Histories and, according to later sources, fought against Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains ===
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  === Merovingian Dynasty ===
  Chlodio, known as 'Le Chevelu' (the Long-Haired King); King of a tribe of Salian Franks which spread into Gaul and conquered Tournai and Cambrai, occupying all the country as far as the Somme and making Tournai the capital of the Salian Franks. Sometimes presented as the son of legendary ruler Pharamond (q.v.) and the father of Merovech (q.v.), he is considered as the earliest Merovingian ruler.
  
  Merovech is the semi-legendary founder of the Merovingian dynasty of the Salian Franks (although Childeric I, his supposed son, or Clovis I, his supposed grandson, can also be considered the founder), which later became the dominant Frankish tribe. He is considered one of several warlords and barbarian kings who joined forces with the Roman general Aetius against the Huns under Attila at the Battle of the Plains of Catalonia in Gaul.
  
  The family of Childeric and Clovis, the first large-scale Frankish royal dynasty, styled themselves Merovingians ("descendants of Meroveus") after him, and this was known to historians for centuries to come, but no more contemporary evidence exists.
  
  === from life sketch - no attribution given ===
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  Meroweus I, King of the Franks. According to Franconian legend, M. was the son of Chlogio, that king of a Salian district, who considerably expanded his power from Dispargum (indeterminable location: Duisburg on the Rhine? Or Duysborg between Leuven and Brussels? Or Diestem an der Demer?), Namely Cambrai and from there all the land up to the Sumina (Somme) c. 420; his son was M., the father Childerich I (born c. 436, † 481), the father Chlodowechs (born 466, † 511: see this article); There is no reason to doubt the existence of this M. and the stated position in the ancestral line of the Merovingians named after him, even if the legend traces his descent back to a sea demon who overwhelmingly embraced Chlogio's wife, who was strolling on the beach. This tribal legend of the Salian royal family is a very important confirmation of the heroic-mythological. Basis of the old Germanic royalty: in history or legend, the royal family was considered the noblest, i.e. H. was (or was considered) the oldest noble family. "Adal" itself means "generation" and the nobles are the families κατ᾽ἐξοϰήν, the most original clans of the nation or the whole nation: therefore the royal families almost all lead back to gods or demigods, to the divine progenitor of the people (Wotan, Donar , Freyr). It is very significant how deeply this idea was rooted in the beliefs of the Teutons, how indispensable this very basis of royalty was, that even with a dynasty that only attained greater importance so late, at the beginning of Christianization, the people nevertheless achieved such a importance Stammsage formed. The fact that a "sea weight" was the progenitor contains the genuinely legendary expression that the Salian Franks spread their power over Gaul from the seashore, from the mouth of the Rhine: this would also explain the name (Meer-weight, Mero-vecht ) are better than the derivation of the "Merwe". The fact that the name M. is repeated late in the clan (see the following articles) can of course only prove the belief in the ancestral fatherhood that lived in the people and the royal family, not the latter itself.
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  === Merovingian Dynasty ===
  MEROVINGIAN DYNASTY:
  1. BOAZ ANFORTAS (CLODIUS´ time)
  2. MARCOMER (Marcomir) (FROTMUND of Cologne)
  3. CHLODION "Le Chevelu" de Cologne
  4. MEROVEUS (had 2 father´s: one from the sea)
  5. CHILDÉRIC I
  6. CLOVIS I (had 5 children with Chlotilde:
  a) Theodoric (King of Reims from 511-534)
  b) Chlodomir (King of Orleans from 511-524)
  c) Childebert (King of Paris from 511-558)
  d) Clotaire (King of Soissons from 511-561)
  e) Chlotilde (497-531) She married King Adalric of Visigoths
  Descendants of King Pharamond.
  
  === # Note: Governed the Salic Franks # Note ===
  # Note: Governed the Salic Franks # Note: Defeated "Attila the Hun" in 451 # Note: Was son or son-in-law of Clodion # Note: # Note: Before 430, the Salic Francs traverse the Escaut, and settle north ofGand [Gant] and also into Courtrai. Their chief, Clodion, takes Cambraiin 430. When Clodion died in 448, Merovee would succeed him as chief.Merovee was a Frankish Prince who ruled over the Saliennes [thus, this Merovee is King of the SalicFrancs] from 452-458. He was the commander of the Francs in the greatBattle of the Catalonic Fields, where he defeated Attila the Hun in 451.It is from his name that the kings of the First Race derived their name. The Huns had steadilyincreased their domination from humble beginnings off the Caspian seafrom Caucase to the Elbe, from Muldavia to Hungary in the later part ofthe Fourth Century. # Note: # Note: SOURCES: # Note: Merovee=Merovech, Prince des Francs (Rosamond McKitterick, TheFrankish kingdom under the Carolingians: 751-987 (Singapore: LongmanSingapore Publishers Pte Ltd, (c) 1983).) # Note: (Paul, Nouveau Larousse Universel.) # Note: # Note: (Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners in ISBN: 0-8063-1344-7(1001 North Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA: GenealogicalPublishing Company, Inc., 1992), Page 216, Line 303-53.) # Note: # Note: (Andre Castelot, Histoire de La France, Pages, 176, 200). Born: before390, son of Arcadios Claudius Claudianus and Eudoxie, Merovee is presumedto have been at least 15 years of age by the time his son Childeric I wasborn. Married before 405: She was a concubine. Note - between 451 and 458: # Note: # Note: Before 430, the Salic Francs traverse the Escaut, and settle north ofGand [Gant] and also into Courtrai. Their chief, Clodion, takes Cambraiin 430. When Clodion died in 448, Merovee would succeed him as chief.Merovee was a Frankish Prince who ruled over the Saliennes [thus, this Merovee is King of the SalicFrancs] from 452-458. He was the commander of the Francs in the greatBattle of th e Catalonic Fields, where he defeated Attila the Hun in 451.It is from his name that the kings of the First Race derived their name. The Huns had steadilyincreased their domination from humble beginnings off the Caspian seafrom Caucase to the Elbe, from Muldavia to Hungary in the later part ofthe Fourth Century. # Note: # Note: During his reign the Empress of the Roman Empire, Galla Placidia, in 423governed in the name of her 4-year old son, Valentinius III. She put theGallo-Roman Aetius [who really came from Bulgaria [originally Silistria]in charge of maintaining the Roman authority over Gaule. # Note: # Note: Although he was unsuccessful against the Wisigoths, he pushed theRiparian Francs beyond the Rhine. In 440, the Riparians would return andtake over Cologne and Treves. In the meantime, the Burgundians settle inwhat would become Bourgogne and in Savoie. In 443, they are camped around Worms and Mayence under thecommand of their King, Gonthier. Died: in 458. # Note: # Note: Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on # Note: Page: Early Frankish Period page 454 of Macropedia
  
  === first called Gaul France\\ Repulsed Atti ===
  first called Gaul France\\ Repulsed Attila, King of the Huns, conquered Piccardy, Normandy, and the Coast of France
  
  === Legend of the Quinotaur ===
  The Quinotaur, according to legend, was a marine creature, which copulated with the wife of the Frankish king Clodión, when she was pregnant with him, giving rise to a shared son, that is, two parents, who was called Meroveo.
  The Quinotauro in Latin is: Quinotaurus and translates as "bull with five horns". The interpretation of the 5 horns, it is supposed that 3 come from the sea god Neptune with his trident, and the next 2 from the horns of a mythical bull called Minotaur.
  
  One day the queen, Clodion's wife, was bathing in the sea, a god joined her, and from this union was born Meroveo, the eponymous hero of the Frankish dynasty.
  The god in question is a beast of Neptune (Bistea Neptuni), a Quinotaur, a five-horned Anguiped river god.
  
  Historian - Godefroid Kurth
  
  Reference: https://www.quinotauro.com/

• m. 435 in Gaul, Roman Empire

1. Alegbert "The Lame" King of Meroving, b. 436 in Westphalia, Prussia, German Empire     d. 509
2. Childeric de Meroving I, b. 437 in Gaul, Roman Empire     d. 26 NOV 481 in Tournai, Kingdom of Aaustrasia, Gaul

1. Title: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Merovech
   
2. Title: Mérovech Of The Franks, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPH2-NPT6 : 2 June 2022), Mérovech Of The Franks, ; Burial, Tournai, Arrondissement de Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium, Saint-Brice Church; citing record ID 189703725, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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