Merovech
Merovech (
French Mérovée) was a chief of the Salian
Franks in the
5th century. He is considered a semi-legendary individual, as not much information survived about him.
Gregory of Tours records that he was the son of
Chlodio and father of
Childeric I. His descendants called themselves
Merovingians, or the House of Merovech.
Some researchers have noted that Merovech, the Frankish chieftain, may have been the namesake of a certain god or demigod honored by the Franks prior to their conversion to Christianity, a being described as part human, part bull and part sea-creature.
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