Mérovée

Mérovée, grew up with supernatural strength and became a Sorcerer-King, a Monarch-Magician and is considered as the first Merovingian King, he fought alongside Flavius Aetius, the Roman ruler when Attila the Hun was defeated in 451 in the battle of the Catalunian Plains.

Aetius was the most influential Roman military commander in the Western Roman Empire for two decades, (433-454), when he was assassinated by Valentinian.

Mérovée was proclaimed King of the Franks in 448 and reigned for 10 years, he succeeds his father Clodion as King of the Salian Franks.

Mérovée “the Young”, King of the Salic Franks was married to Meira.

450-451: Death of Clodion, the father of Mérovée.

In 451 AD. Flavius Aetius, de facto ruler of the Western Roman Empire, called upon his Germanic allies on Roman soil to help fight off an invasion by Atilla’s Huns. Franks answered the call and fought in the battle of the Catalaunian Plains in a temporary alliance with Romans and Visigoths, which basically ended the Hunnic threat to Western Europe.

Under Mérovée and his successors, the Kingdom of the Franks flourished. It was not the crude barbaric culture often imagined. It warrants comparison with the high culture of the Byzantines. Secular literacy was encouraged. They built lavish Roman styled amphitheaters in Paris and Soissons. Their gold coins that were minted bore an equal arm cross.

King Mérovée and his priestly successors were accorded special veneration and were widely known for their esoteric knowledge and occult skills. Described by Gregory of Tours as a learned dynasty from ‘the foremost and most noble line of their race’.

Mérovée followed the pagan cult of ‘Diana of the Ardennes’.

Their spiritual cult was very much similar to that of the druids, and they were greatly revered as esoteric teachers, judges, faith-healers and clairvoyants. Their unique establishment was neither Gallo-Roman nor Teutonic, it was said ‘to be something entirely new’. They were avid students of proper Kingly practice and their model was King Solomon, son of David.

The Merovingian Kings firmly believed in the hidden power of the honeycomb, which is made of a hexagonal prism, considered by philosophers to be the manifestation of divine harmony in nature. The bee was the most hallowed creature, a sacred symbol of Egyptian royalty.

Mérovée and his son Childeric take Trier, and make great gains in Gaul. They were involved with the Romans as military recruits in the 5th century. Gregory of Tours, the historian, placed the emergence of the Merovingians at the conclusion of the Frankish migration. Mérovée was probably a Roman Governor of the Province of Belgica (present day Belgium and North France), just like his son Childeric and his grandson Clovis later were.

Gregory of Tours wrote that the Franks had created long haired Kings in Thuringia. Merovingian hair was ascribed a magical and sacral quality assumed to be inherent in sacred kingship, the hair of the Merovingians was a symbol of their Sacred Royal Blood.

The Liber Historiæ Francorum names “Merovechus…filium…Childerico

The son of Mérovée, Childeric and his son Clovis were the first Kings of the whole of France.

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