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CHILDERIC III . (d. c. 751), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of the See also:Franks, was the last king of the Merovingian See also:dynasty. The See also:throne had been vacant for seven years when the mayors of the See also:palace, See also:Carloman and See also:Pippin the See also:Short, decided in 743 to recognize Childeric as king. We cannot say whose son he was, or what bonds See also:bound him to the Merovingian See also:family. He took no See also:part in public business, which was directed, as before, by the mayors of the palace, When in 747 Carloman retired into a monastery, Pippin resolved to take the royal See also:crown for himself; taking the decisive step in 751 after having received the celebrated See also:answer of See also:Pope See also:Zacharias that it were better to name king him who possessed the See also:power than him who possessed it not. Childeric was dethroned and placed in the monastery of St Omer; his son, Theuderich, was imprisoned at See also:Saint-Wandrille.
See W. Junghans, See also:Die Geschichte der frankischen Konige Childerich and Clodovech (See also:Gottingen, 1857) ; J. J. Chiflet, Anastasis Childerici I. Francorum regis (See also:Antwerp, 1655) ; J. B. D. Cochet, Le Tombeau de Childeric I, roi See also:des Francs (See also:Paris, 1859) ; and E. See also:Lavisse. Histoire de See also:France, tome ii. (Paris, 1903).
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