Thread by @thevagrantpepe

The Merovingian Family:

Who were the Merovingian kings?
This story is essentially the story of modern Europe, so this is gonna be a long one. I've done my best to be as accurate as possible, and that necessitates a really lengthy thread. Apologies if it puts you to sleep.

To understand the Merovingians we need to look as what was going on in Europe in the 4th century. Specifically with respect to the group of people called the Franks.

-Pictured is France around 500ad.

France takes its name from a powerful tribe of Northmen, the Franks, who began to overrun the country about three hundred years after the birth of Christ. Before that the region was called Gaul after the Celtic druids that lived there.

Druids, Franks, and Gauls--Race Types of the Dark Ages (engraving),English School, (19th century)

The first mention of the Franks dates back to about 286 AD during the reign of Roman emperor Probus (276–282). The general Carausius (see image) was put in charge of defending the coasts of the Straits of Dover against Saxon and Frankish pirates.

This coincides with what might be the first mention of Saxons in the 2nd century as recorded in Ptolemy's Geographia. Pictured is a Latin translation from around 1410

A Byzantine Greek world map according to Ptolemy.
From Codex Vaticanus Urbinas Graecus 82, Constantinople c. 1300, Vatican library.

Let's skip ahead to the 4th century...

Now we come to the Merovingians with the birth of semi-legendary king Merocech in 411ad. He is said to be one of the northern warlords who fought with the Roman general Aetius against the Huns under Attila.

This is the guy behind the sketchy theories of Christ's decendants. The logic behind it goes like this...
The 7th-century Frankish history, "The Chronicle of Fredegar", claims the Merovgivians are descendants of a mythical sea creature of Neptune called a quinotaur...

The beast came upon Merovech's mother and made her pregnant.
Later books, specifically "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" use this descended from fishes bit to postulate the Christ lineage of the Merovingian since early Christians used the fish symbol. That's the essence of it all.

The book goes further and claims Jesus and Mary Magdalene as the bridegroom and bride in "The Alchemical Marriage of Christian Rosycross" and claim Merovech as the Masonic "Widow's Son".
Alien-human hybrids also come up, so you can see why I chose not to dwell on these stories.

The real Merovech had a son in 437, Childeric I. He likely served in Roman military career under Flavius Aetius who defeated Attila in Gaul.
-Pictured is the seal of Childeric I

His tomb found in 1653 in present day Belgium. Inside they found many treasures including golden bull's heads and 300 golden bees with garnet insets.

Bees are an important symbol of universal life and later Royalty. It is probable that the fleur-de-lis is a bee and not a flower. Napoleon would later adopt the bee in keeping with Childerich.

Childeric's son, Clovis I (481-c. 509), the first true King of the Franks would be the first to abandon the pagan religion to adopt Christianity. His baptism would initiate ties to the powers of the papacy in Rome. Very important

His change in faith came at the behest of his Catholic wife, Clotilde, who is now venerated as a Saint for the act.

Clovis strengthened the papal bonds when 33 bishops helped him write decrees that bound Franks and Romans alike and established equality between conquerors and conquered. This was the First Council of Orleans.

Upon his death, the kingdom was split between his 4 sons: Theuderic, Chlodomer, Childebert, and Clotaire. Thus the kingdoms of Rheims, Orléans, Paris and Soissons were created. This would prove to be their eventual undoing.

When one king died the remaining would naturally squabble over the kingdom. This was common in the dynasty with only a few brief periods of reunification. Tensions between royal houses and nobility were common. The story of Brunhilda(c. 543–613) is a great example.

In 567, she was married to King Sigebert I of Austrasia, a grandson of Clovis I. Sigebert briefly united the kingdoms, but that quickly fell apart. She bore him three children. She was an ambitious woman who thrice seized the regency in the name of her sons or grandsons.

These instances were hotly contested by the nobility. Eventually, the mayor of the palace of Burgundy and others had enough of her. The dragged her through the streets before ripping her limb from limb between horses. She was well into her 70s, ancient for the time.

The revolving door of Merovingian kings, some kids) weakened the kingdoms. Mayors gained more and more political power. Later kings were called rois fainéants. The do-nothing kings. This continued until the non-royal statesman/soldier/mayor Pepin II (c. 635-714) came to power.

Pepin the mayor became the defacto ruler of the Franks and left the rule of the kingdoms to his son under a single Merovingian king (little more than a figurehead). His son his son Charles Martel continued the defacto ruler trend, though contested...

Mertel's son, Pepin the Short (751 - 768) would finally usurp the throne in 743. He deposed then figurehead Childeric III with the support of the pope as well as the nobility. Thus ended the Merovingian kings and began the Carolingian dynasty...

Pepin's son, Charlemagne (Charles I 748 - 814), the King of the Franks, the King of the Lombards, and the Emperor of the Romans. He is called the father of Europe and is a name you no doubt recognize.

His exploits are too numerous to mention here, but this brief video does a damn good job of explaining the time.

What does this have to do with the Illuminati?
Ok, be advised that I'm entering into territory of both record and assumption that the research of others is accurate.

Stay tuned...

What if I told you 34 of the last 44 U.S. Presidents were genetic descendants from Charlemagne? The others directly descended from King Edward III of England?
What if I told you the candidate with the most royal genes always won? The elite are all related.

This goes for the banking families too. America is and always was ruled by English and French royalty.

“The Americas have always been owned and governed by the same royal families of Britain and Europe that conventional history states as being among those defeated during the wars of so-called ‘Independence.’” -Michael Tsarion, “Astrotheology and Sidereal Mythology”

If you look far enough you'll find that all 44 presidents belong to the same general ancestry, the Merovingian line, and/or the Windsor-Bush bloodline. The 13th bloodline is really all around you.

Even political opponents are related. Bob Dole and Bill Clinton are both of the Henry III line. Clinton had more genes, sharing House of Windsor lineage, and thus won the election. See how it works?

You can trace the Windsor/Bush line from presidents, to royalty, and beyond. Keep going and you reach Roman emperors, Babylonian kings, and Egyptian Pharaohs. Never forget royalty marries royalty, and peoples are bound y marriage to royalty.

The French Monarchy of their blood eventually goes back to the Medici, to the House of Lorraine and Duke Godfroi de Bouillon, the first Crusader King of Jerusalem.
You'll find Habsburg dynasties under the Holy Roman Empire, and before that Charlemagne and the Merovingians...

Before that you hit Emperor Constantine. Keep following the blood to the Piso family of Rome...

Before them came Herod the Great of Biblical fame and Ptolemy XIV, son of Julius Caesar. Ceasar married into the line of Cleopatra via Alexander the Great. Keep going...

Wind back the clock and dilute the blood.
Past Alexander, Nebuchadnezzar IV and the kings of Babylon. Trace the lines of ancient African Kings and the Pharaohs of Egypt. The same damned bloodlines have been ruling us for millennia. Do you feel sick yet?

The 13th bloodline is more than the Merovingian line. It's the story of recorded history.

Whew! That's the longest thread I've ever made. Hope you like it. Man, it took forever to put together.

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