Franks

General Franks received an honorary knighthood.

The Franks converted to Christianity.

Leovigild had expelled the remaining soldiers of the Greek emperors from Spain, had suppressed the audacity of the Franks, who in their raids ravaged the Visigothic provinces beyond the Pyrenees, had put an end to the sort of monarchy that the Suevi had established in Gallaecia and had expired in Toledo, after having established political and civil laws, and peace and public order in its vast domains, which stretched from coast to coast, and also, crossing the mountains of Vasconia, covered a large portion of the former Narbonian Gaul.

But Gregory exhorted them to persevere in their purpose, advised them to choose some interpreters from among the Franks, who still spoke the same language with the Saxons, and recommended them to the good offices of Queen Brunhilda, who had at this time usurped the sovereign power in France.

Pope Gregory III. cherished dreams of an alliance with the powerful duke of the Franks, as St Remigius before him had thought of uniting with Clovis against the Goths.

Jews began living in France five centuries before the Franks, the Burgundians and the Visigoths, and eight centuries before the Normans.

Italians are partly Gothic, Spaniards are partly Visigothic, the French are partly Franks, and the Germans themselves come not just from Germanic peoples but also from Celts, Baltic peoples, Romans, and others.