Meroving

The French had their Merouings, the old Kentiſh Kingdome here its Oiſcings, from Merouee and Oiſca.

Though the long-haired Merovings ruled from the Ebro to the Meuse […]

The Franks only found salvation in the growth of checks on the royal power by the development of the great provincial governors, and by the final deposition of the Merovings in favour of the great house of the descendants of St. Arnulf, the Mayors of the Palace, whose strong hand at last stayed the fratricidal wars of the seventh century.

THE FALL OF THE MEROVINGS AND THE RISE OF THE CAROLINGS

The decline of the Merovings was not due to some mysterious force incomprehensible to the human brain.

Sigibert III of the Merovings was a mere puppet under the control of his Mayor of the Palace.