Under the Merovingian dynasty, the mayor of the palace or majordomo. (Latin: maior palatii or maior domus) was the manager of the household of the Frankish...
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716 – 17 August 754) was the eldest son of Charles Martel, mayor of the palace and duke of the Franks, and his wife Chrotrud of Treves. On Charles's death...
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730) was a Frankish nobleman of the Pippinid family and the eldest son of Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia under the Merovingian king Childeric...
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Chlothar II (redirect from Clotaire II of the Franks)
mayor of the Palace a role held for life, an important step in the progress of this office from being first the manager of the royal household to the...
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Gogo (died 581) was the mayor of the palace of Austrasia and nutricius (also nutritius, tutor/regent) for the young Childebert II from 576 until his death...
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The Sotto Mayor Palace (Portuguese: Palácio Sotto Mayor) is a Portuguese palace located in Lisbon. The Sotto Mayor Palace was built for Candido Sotto...
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Francia (redirect from Kingdom of the Franks)
Sigebert II, the office of the Mayor of the Palace, which had for sometime been visible in the kingdoms of the Franks, came to the fore in its internal politics...
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Neustria (redirect from King of Neustria)
680. In 687, Pippin of Herstal, mayor of the palace of the King of Austrasia, defeated the Neustrians at Tertry. Neustria's mayor Berchar was assassinated...
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Theuderic III (redirect from Theuderic III of the Franks)
Austrasia as well. He and the Neustrian mayor of the palace, Waratton, made peace with Pepin of Heristal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, in 681. However...
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of Herstal, was a Frankish statesman and military leader who de facto ruled Francia as the Mayor of the Palace from 680 until his death. He took the title...
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Clovis IV (redirect from Clovis IV of the Franks)
Neustria. According to the Annals of Metz, a pro-Pippinid source, he was appointed by Pippin of Herstal, the mayor of the palace of Austrasia, and reigned...
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civil war. This is the period of the roi fainéant, "do-nothing kings" who were increasingly overshadowed by their mayors of the palace. The Carolingians were...
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Sigebert III (redirect from Sigebert III of Austrasia)
first Merovingian roi fainéant —do-nothing king—, in effect the mayor of the palace ruling the kingdom throughout his reign. However he lived a pious Christian...
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had received from the Christian monks of the Abbey Church of St. Denis, near Paris. Succeeding his father as the Mayor of the Palace in 741, Pepin reigned...
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Dagobert III (redirect from Dagobert III of the Franks)
at Tertry in 687, and the Kingdom of Burgundy—in 711. Real power, however, still remained with the Mayor of the Palace, Pippin of Herstal, who died in...
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a Mayor of the Palace, his statutory attribute being a short stick, probably made of a precious metal. He likely appears on some of the reliefs in Persepolis...
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Theuderic IV (redirect from Theuderic IV of the Franks)
controlled by the mayor of the palace, Charles Martel. The king mostly stayed at Chelles Abbey, then in Château-Thierry. After his death, the Frankish throne...
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Clovis II (category Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis)
in Gaul. She had been owned by the Neustrian mayor of the palace, Erchinoald, but then attracted the interest of the king. They had three sons, who all...
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Pipin, or Pippin) of Landen (c. 580 – 27 February 640), also called the Elder or the Old, was the Mayor of the palace of Austrasia under the Merovingian King...
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Sigebert II (redirect from Sigebert II of Austrasia and Burgundy)
father's kingdoms. However, when the kingdom was invaded by Clotaire II of Neustria, Warnachar and Rado, mayor of the palace of Burgundy, betrayed Sigebert...
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Childebert III the Adopted (Childebertus Adoptivus) was a Frankish king. Childebert was a son of the Mayor of the Palace Grimoald the Elder. He was thus...
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Carolingian dynasty (redirect from Descendants of Charlemagne)
offices of mayor of the palace and dux et princeps Francorum hereditary, and becoming the de facto rulers of the Franks as the real powers behind the Merovingian...
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Charles Martel (redirect from Charles the Hammer)
"The Hammer", was a Frankish political and military leader who, as Duke and Prince of the Franks and Mayor of the Palace, was the de facto ruler of the...
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Childebert III (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
puppet of the mayor of the palace, Pepin of Heristal, though his placita show him making judicial decisions of his own will, even against the Arnulfing...
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Childeric II (redirect from Childeric II of the Franks)
displaced him, becoming sole king. He made his Austrasian Mayor of the Palace, Wulfoald, mayor in Neustria and Burgundy as well, upsetting his supporters...
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Childeric III (redirect from Childeric III of the Franks)
of the palace of Neustria and mayor of the palace of Austrasia, consolidating his position as the most powerful man in Francia. After the death of king...
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Merovingian dynasty (redirect from The Merovingians)
power was increasingly in the hands of the mayor of the palace, the highest-ranking official under the king. In 656, the mayor Grimoald I tried to place...
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ambitions for power. Over time, the Mayor of the Palace became the most important political and administrative office in the Frankish kingdom, with its holder...
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Chilperic II (redirect from Chilperic II of the Franks)
tool in the hands of Ragenfrid, mayor of the palace of Neustria, acclaimed in 714 in opposition to Theudoald, Pepin of Heristal's designated heir. Chilperic...
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Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. February 27 – Pepin the Elder, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, dies and is succeeded...
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