List of the Mayors of the Palace

List of the Mayors of the Palace

The Mayors of the Palace were the chief officials of the Merovingian kings.

Mayors of the Palace of Austrasia

*Parthemius (until 548)
*Gogo (c. 567-581), during the minority of Childebert II
*Wandalenus (from 581), during the minority of Childebert II
*Gundulf (from 600), under Theudebert II
*Landric (until 612), probably also in Neustria
*Warnachar (612-617), also in Burgundy
*Hugh (or "Chucus") (617-623), successor of previous
*Pepin the Elder (623-629), under Dagobert I
*Adalgisel (633-639)
*Pepin the Elder (639-640), again
*Otto (640-642 or 643)
*Grimoald I 642 or 643-656), died 662
*Wulfoald (656-680), also in Neustria (673-675)
*Pepin the Middle (680-714), took the title Duke and Prince of the Franks ("dux et princeps Francorum") after his conquest of Neustria in 687
*Theudoald (714-715), also in Neustria. Illegitimate son of Grimoald II, designated heir of his grandfather Pepin, opposed by the nobility, who acclaimed Charles Martel
*Charles Martel (715-741), illegitimate son of Pepin the Middle, also in Neustria (718-741)
*Carloman (741-747), died 754 or 755
*Drogo (747-751), son of Carloman

Mayors of the Palace of Neustria

*Landric, under Clotaire II, probably also in Austrasia
*Gundoland (613 or 616-639)
*Aega (639-641), also in Burgundy
*Erchinoald (641-658)
*Ebroin (658-673), deposed
*Wulfoald (673-675), also in Austrasia (662-680)
*Leudesius (675), chosen after previous, then deposed
*Ebroin (675-680), again
*Waratton (680 or 681-682), deposed by his son Gistemar
*Gistemar (682), son of previous, usurper, died 683 or 684
*Waratton (682-684 or 686), again
*Berthar (686-688 or 689), son-in-law of previous, lost Battle of Tertry to Pepin the Middle in 687, murdered in 688 or 689
*Pepin the Middle (688-695), represented in court by his follower Nordebert
*Grimoald II (695-714), son of Pepin the Middle
*Theudoald (714-715), also in Austrasia. Illegitimate son of Grimoald II, driven out of Neustria by the nobility, surrendered claim in 716.
*Ragenfrid (715-718), took power in Neustria in 714 or 715, but defeated by Charles Martel in 717 and definitively in 718 and fled, died 731
*Charles Martel (718-741), illegitimate son of Pepin the Middle, also in Austrasia (715-741)
*Pepin the Younger (741 or 742-751), became king of the Franks in 751 (died 768)

Mayors of the Palace of Burgundy

*Warnachar I (596-599)
*Berthoald (before 603-604)
*Protadius (604-606)
*Claudius
*Rado (613-617)
*Warnachar II (617-626), also in Austrasia
*Godinus (626-627)
*Brodulf (627-628)
*Aega (639-641), also in Neustria
*Flaochad (642)
*Radobertus (642-662)

Hereafter the office was united with that of Neustria, though Burgundy remained a separate realm under the King of Neustria and Burgundy. The administration of Burgundy was briefly separate under:

*Drogo (695-708), son of Pepin the Middle, also duke of Champagne (from 690) and duke of Burgundy from Nordebert's death in 697

ources

*Oman, Charles. "The Dark Ages 476-918". London, 1914.
*Gregory of Tours. "Historia Francorum", translated by Earnest Brehaut, 1916. Available at [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gregory-hist.html Medieval Sourcebook] .
*Fredegar. "The Chronicle of Fredegar", translated by J. M. Wallace-Hadrill, 1960, in "The Early Middle Ages 500-1000", edited by Robert Bentrano (New York, 1964).


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