Episode 120: Who Were the Merovingians?

• Merovingian Family Tree https://www.reddit.com/r/UsefulCharts/comments/1d4bneh/family_tree_of_the_merovingians_monarchs_of_the/#lightbox 

• Extracts from Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/gregory-hist.asp 

• The Chronicle of Fredegar (PDF) https://almuslih.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Wallace-Hadrill-J-Fourth-Book-of-the-Chronicle-.pdf 

• Shelley Puhak. 2022. The Dark Queens: The Bloody Rivalry that Forged the Medieval World. 

• Ian Wood. 1994. The Merovingian Kingdoms 450-751. 

• E.T. Dailey. 2022. Queens, Concubines and Consorts: Gregory of Tours and Women of the Medieval Elite

• Emma Southon. 2018. Marriage, Sex and Death: The Family and the Fall of the Roman West.