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<p>no claim to be descended from a god".</p>

<p>In 1906, the British Egyptologist <a href="page.php?w=Flinders_Petrie">Flinders Petrie</a> suggested that the Marvingi recorded by <a href="page.php?w=Ptolemy">Ptolemy</a> as living near the <a href="page.php?w=Rhine">Rhine</a> were the ancestors of the Merovingian dynasty.</p>

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<p>In 486 <a href="page.php?w=Clovis_I">Clovis I</a>, the son of Childeric, defeated <a href="page.php?w=Syagrius">Syagrius</a>, a Roman military leader who competed with the Merovingians for power in northern</p><p>
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