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Dagobert I
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Definition:king of the Franks, son of Clotaire II., reformed the laws of the Franks; was the last of the Merovingian kings who knew how to rule with a firm hand; the sovereign power as it passed from his hands was seized by the mayor of the palace; d. 638.Rev. James Wood. The Nuttall Encyclopedia (1907)
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"[...] Many of the Vatican's Grail quests here were in fact stealth missions to erase members of the royal bloodline. Have you heard of King Dagobert?"
Dan Brown. The Da Vinci Code, p257 (2007)
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the treasures which had come to the church from personages who to me were almost legendary figures (such as the golden cross wrought, it was said, by Saint Eloi and presented by Dagobert, and the tomb of the sons of Louis the Germanic in porphyry and enamelled copper),
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
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