The first Frankish kingdom under the Merovingian dynasty, founded by Clovis I, which unified much of western Europe and adopted Christianity before yielding to the Carolingians.
Ended in 751 when Pepin the Short deposed the last Merovingian king Childeric III, had him tonsured and confined to a monastery, and proclaimed himself the first Carolingian king of the Franks.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Merovingian Francia — the shape you scrub through changes in 481 · 650.
Authoritative scholarly study of the Franks from their origins through the Carolingian period — verified via Open Library.
The essential contemporary primary chronicle of the Merovingian Franks, written by a 6th-century bishop who lived through the events he narrates (primary source).
Major synthesis of early-medieval Europe situating Merovingian Francia among the Roman successor kingdoms (era/regional context).