The Patricians: Merovech (412 - 458) - Primogenitor of Merovingian Dynasty - 46th, 47th & 48th Great Grandfather

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At the urging of Tonantius Ferreolus, the Roman praetorian prefect of Gaul, Merovech joined his army with those led by Roman general Flavius Aëtius and the Visigothic king Theodoric I to defeat Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451. The Roman Empire victory ultimately ended the Hunnic bid to conquer Gaul.

After the battle, Merovech seized Paris and began to expand his empire to the Loire River. Clovis I, his grandson, further expanded the lands under Merovingian control to encompass most of the region occupied by present-day France. Clovis would later be recognized as the first ruler of all the Frankish tribes and, thus, the first monarch of France.

Charlemagne was their direct agnatic descendant.


Merovech Meroveus or Merovius , King of the Salian Franks
Birth in Tounai, Hainault, Belgium defeated Attila the Hun
Death in Tounai, Hainault, Belgium

46th great grandfather VON HESBAYE-CAPET-D'EVREUX-ROHAN-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

47th great grandfather AUTUN-ROERGUE-LIMOGES-ROCHECHOUART-CHABOT-LANDRY-BOURG-CYR-BRULE http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

47th great grandfather FERREOLUS-DE ALSACE-DE ANJOU-PLANTAGENET-HOWARD-WOOD
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

48th great grandfather CAROLMAN-HAINAUT-LENS-DEMAREST-TERHUNE-BANTA-BRINKERHOFF-OUTWATER-COLLINS
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

22nd cousin 49x removed SELEUCID-COMMAGENE-YNGVI-YNGLING-DUNKELD-LE ROY-MAULAY-REINE-LA POINT-MOREAU-GIROUX-MERON-BRULE
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/465887...

FAB PEDIGREE http://fabpedigree.com/s004/f000535.htm

Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovech

SOURCES

Merovingian Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merovingian

Attila Wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Merovingian Period: Merovingian Dynasty, Merovingian Saints, Clovis I, Merovech, Dagobert I, Gregory of Tours, Childeric I, Saint Boniface

The Merovingian Kingdoms 450–751The Merovingian Mythos and the Mystery of Rennes-Le-Chateau

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