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The 'mayors of the palace' were the chief officials of the Merovingian kings.

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Mayors of the Palace of Austrasia

Mayors of the Palace of Neustria

Mayors of the Palace of Burgundy

Sources

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

★ Pepin the Younger (747-751), also in Neustria (741-751), became King of the Franks in 751 (died 768)

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), also in Austrasia (747-751), 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

Sources

★ Oman, Charles. ''The Dark Ages 476-918''. London, 1914.

★ Gregory of Tours. ''Historia Francorum'', translated by Earnest Brehaut, 1916. Available at 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).