List of the Mayors of the Palaces

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The mayors of the palaces were the chief officials of the Merovingian kings.

Contents

1 Mayors of the Palace of Austrasia
2 Mayors of the Palace of Neustria
3 Mayors of the Palace of Burgundy
4 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 (612-613), also in Burgundy
Rado (613 or 614-616 or 617)
Hugh (or Chucus) (617-623), successor of previous
Pepin the Elder (623-629), under Dagobert I
Ansegisel (629-639)
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. Illegimate son of Grimoald II, designated heir of his grandfather Pepin, opposed by the nobility, who acclaimed Charles Martel
Charles Martel (715-741), illegimate 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 (d.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 (680 or 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. Illegimate 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), illegimate 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 (d.768)

Mayors of the Palace of Burgundy

Warnachar I (596-599)
Berthoald
Protadius
Claudius
Warnachar II (613-626), also in Austrasia
Godinus (626-627)
Brodulf (627-628)
Aega (639-641), also in Burgundy
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).

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