ABSTRACT
DAGOBERT, who died at the age of thirty-five, at Epinay-sur-Seine, January 19th, 639, is properly speaking the last Merovingian King. After him the power ceased to be really exercised by the sovereign. It passed into the hands of the major domus, or the Mayor of the Palace, as he is usually called. It is well to make a halt here and to study the Monarchy and the Institutions of this period.
