<i>Regibus solo nomine regnantibus</i>: The Late Merovingians
The story of Merovingian decline is inexorably linked to that Carolingian ascent, a coupling ubiquitous in the historiographical record. success propaganda thus evident adoption its perspective later works historiography. While it now widely held death Dagobert I did not herald depletion vigor, this view was adopted by numerous post-Carolingian compositions. It present two sources discussed chapter, twelfth-century Chronica Sigebert Gembloux and sixteenth-century Sefer Divrei Hayamim leMalkei Tzarfat uVeit Otoman Hatogar [The Book Histories Kings France Turkish House Ottoman] Yosef Ha-Kohen. Both were composed at considerable remove from period, yet they bear traces historiography’s far-reaching influence. This especially noticeable their periodization era. chapter will argue both authors saw line as process precipitated disastrous reign Clovis II (d. 657), appraisal influenced coverage his successors.
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