Antrustions

14/03/2025

After the death of the king, "his lord," every free man and antrustion will be able to recommend themselves to whoever they want among the three Merovingian Kingdoms. This arrangement demonstrates the tight ties and considerable flexibility of choice between the kingdoms.

Involvements on the social and political scales varied in intensity. The position held by the antrustion needed maturity, experience, and aptitude, particularly when it related to a public duty, such as a political, military, administrative, or judicial function, such as that of a Count of the Palace, Duke of Province, Count of City, or Marche, etc. The meticulously outlined duties between the antrustions forbade one from carrying weapons or enduring observation against another.

Various tasks, such as organizing and forming battalions in border towns, increasingly fell to the antrustions. Other appointments included lawyers, judges, and a special police force called the Antrustions, whose jurisdiction may, if required, extend into other kingdoms for the purpose of conducting investigations and making arrests.

The king's antrustions always escorted him in both his city and his country, and an antrustion always led over the royal estates. The king became accustomed to having the antrustion take charge of his territory and the authority to dispense justice to the tenants and other people who occupied their lands. The aforementioned person could lose his title and respect if he doesn't keep the most basic promises he made to the king, or if he has shown that he is not worthy of this position without directly hurting the prince's rights or interests.

13/03/2025

Honey and wax were seen as divine blessings, deeply valued in Egyptian society for both their spiritual and practical significance.

12/03/2025

Human history is comparable to a large jigsaw puzzle. We won't see the whole picture until we've finished the puzzle. To obtain a more comprehensive image, we must gather as many of the fragments as possible because they are scattered throughout the area.

Numerous architects and sculptors of antiquity were initiates of mysteries, especially the Eleusinian rites. Temples and monuments were constructed for gods who now rest broken in the dust of the countries they once inspired. These cities and monuments were built by top artisans, and the gods' mysterious faces were carved by artisans unmatched today. Ancient architecture exhibits a deep comprehension of mathematics and astronomy, and Greek statues display a comparable level of anatomical knowledge. These examples demonstrate that both original creators were masterminds who knew the mysteries' arcana.

Those initiated architects and artists concealed the secret doctrine in their creations, whether they were hired to build palaces, temples, or combs, or to carve statues for the wealthy. That is why the world did not know until much later, long after their bones had fallen into the ground, that those first craftsmen were, in fact, properly initiated and worthy of the title Master Mason.

Whether they are found in megalithic standing stones, cathedrals, buildings, paintings, or other structures, the mysteries of the ancient and not-so-ancient worlds are essentially hidden in plain sight. We will also reveal the truth about religion, alchemy, the history of the Holy Grail, and our current political structures. Humans have been using this complex language for thousands of years. All around us, like a trail of clues leading to a hidden treasure, are symbols.

It is critical to acknowledge that a large number of historians, artists, architects, politicians, laypeople, and religious leaders desired and were unable to disseminate this knowledge. Instead, to ensure that future generations could understand the message, they used ciphers, codes, and symbols. Since these symbols were already well-known and in use, but for a different purpose (orthodoxy), it was possible for mainstream religion to conceal their true meaning.

We can better predict the future if we understand messages, their hidden meanings, and human behavior cycles.

07/03/2025

After Dagobert was proclaimed King of Austrasia, he quickly began restoring order throughout his new kingdom, greatly boosting his wealth in the process. Dagobert resumed the production of gold coins, which Childeric II had ostensibly stopped doing around 670 AD. His gold tremissis broke with the old Frankish style and copied the powerful cross on three steps of contemporary Byzantine solidi. Dagobert was also the last king whose name was minted in Marseilles.

The important royal coins of Marseilles, which lasted from 613 to 679 AD, were always minted with the name of a king, which was unusual because Frankish coins usually contained only the names of the lender and the mint.

Dagobert II was the last Merovingian king to actually exercise real power. The mayors, who actually controlled the country and eventually defeated the Merovingian kings with the support of the Roman Church, are increasingly using their successors as puppets. The lowest of subjects were welcome to go into Dagobert's palace, which had all the order of a monastery, so they could openly approach their king and tell him about their situation. Due to their dishonest use of the king's trust and deception, the flatterers were banished from the king's court. The king never listened to their advice. He was a lover of the truth, and he spoke it with genuinely royal candor.
Therefore, inevitably, with his newfound wealth and land, he made enemies. He also caused the resentment of the rulers of neighboring Frankish lands, some of whom had connections in Dagobert's court and could be dangerous to him. One of these was his Mayor of the Palace, the treacherous Pepin the Fat.
In 676 AD, Dagobert signed a "strong pact of peace" with the Lombards. This event can be dated precisely because the only source for it, the History of the Lombards, written by Paul the Deacon toward the end of the eighth century, also reports the appearance of a comet in August of the same year. This comet was reported all over the world, from Ireland to Japan.

Ebroïn, the palace mayor to Thierry, King of Neustria, threatened King Dagobert II, the thirteenth King of Austrasia. Ebron ruled Neustria without restraint and desired to control Austrasia as well. Dagobert II restricts the law to steer the mayor of his palace, Pépin de Herstal. He opposes the desire for independence among the nobles and the expansion of the Roman church. He declares the city of Stenay the Merovingian capital.

06/03/2025

Sigebert was the son of Ragnetrude and Dagobert I. Because he wanted a holy person to baptize his son, the king requested Saint Armand. The latter initially declined Dagobert's offers. The king then sent him two men who were held in high esteem at court because of their prudence and virtue. They were Eloi and Ouen (Dadon). They succeeded where the king had failed.

Sigebert was baptized at Orleans Cathedral in the presence of Dagobert, Éloi, Ega, Dadon, Queen Nanthilde, the royal treasurer Landégisèle, and the referendum Chadoin from Burgondie. Bishop Armand proceeded with the baptism, and Caribert II became the godfather of Sigebert, who took up the baptismal font. During the service, Armand recited the paternoster, and Sigebert, then nine days old, is said to have answered "Amen."

The name Sigebert derives from the Old High German name "Sigiberht," composed of two elements: “seʒiz/sigis” (victory) plus “berhtaz” (light, bright, clear, shining one). The name means “the enormous victory, the light of victory.” Sigebert, Ragnétrude, and Anségisèle left for Metz, where they stayed at the royal villa of Montigny. Dagobert assigned the education of Sigebert to Pepin of Landen, who was the mayor of the palace in Austrasia under his father, Chlotar II. Pepin took the young Sigebert with him to his domains in Aquitaine, where he stayed for the next three years.

05/03/2025

For centuries, gold coinage has been a prerogative of the remote and semi-divine emperor. Putting himself on the coinage, he asserted that Theudebert was equal to the ruler in Constantinople. On the solidus, the inscription reads D N THEODEBERTVS VICTOR (“Our Lord, Theodebert, Winner!”).
The Merovingian pseudo-imperial coinage completely vanished around the year 570 AD, and a "national" currency that was entirely unique in style and fabric took its place. The sole denomination was the incredibly unique gold tremissis, at a reduced weight of about 1.2 grams.

Early hoard coins contained 85–95% gold on average by 670 AD. In later examples, the fineness had dropped to about 30%, and some of the later examples had as little as 13% gold, or less than four carats in jeweler's terms. They would have resembled silver in appearance. Typically, there was a crude bust on the obverse and a cross on the reverse. The croix ancrée, or "anchor cross," is a common variation of the cross that appears on these coins. It is characterized by two semicircles that protrude from the top in opposite directions. King names are seldom found. Coins are only known for about twelve of the approximately thirty-two rulers.

Rather, the names of mints and "moneyers" emerge, typically in clumsy script and frequently barely recognizable due to dies that were cut too big to fit the flans. We have identified more than 1,500 different moneyers and more than 800 distinct mints. These moneyers were itinerant artisan contractors who, when local chiefs or clerics needed coins, created small batches of currency from any available precious metal. Eligius (or Eloi) was the most well-known moneyer in Merovingian times. He was born around 588 AD, near Limoges, and began his apprenticeship as a goldsmith. Because of his extraordinary talent, King Chlothar II (r. 613-629 AD) appointed him mint master at Marseille and gave him the task of creating a golden throne adorned with gems.

Eligius rose to the position of chief advisor to King Dagobert I (623–634). Depending on the King's location at the time, the Palatium, also known as "the Palace," in Paris and Marseilles struck gold solidi and tremisses bearing Eligius's moneyer's name.

03/03/2025

Upon the death of Clothar II in 629 AD, Dagobert wanted to bring the Frankish realm together, so the following year he went on expeditions to Neustria and Burgundy and was successful in getting recognition for his authority. Under him, the Merovingian monarchy reached its pinnacle.

In Aquitaine he gave his brother Charibert the administration of the counties of Toulouse, Cahors, Agen, Périgueux, and Saintes; but at Charibert's death in 632 AD, Dagobert became sole ruler of the whole of the Frankish territories south of the Loire, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in many years and the most respected ruler in the West.

Dagobert installed Radulf, son of Chamar, as dux in Thuringia. Thus Radulf, who may have been a Frank from the region of Mainz, started out actually as a representative of the king rather than as a Thuringian leader.

He forced all the Jews in his kingdom to be baptized with the help of Emperor Heraclius of the Eastern Roman Empire and the approval of Pope Honorius. Frankish ecclesiastics and civil authorities had already been groping for such policies, and under Heraclius’s prompting and Dagobert’s leadership, they may have succeeded in creating the first Christian state that purged the Jews.

Dagobert was reckoned superior to the other barbarian kings. He entered into relations with the eastern empire and swore a "perpetual peace" with the emperor Heraclius, and it is probable that the two sovereigns took common measures against the Slav and Bulgarian tribes, which ravaged in turn the Byzantine state and the German territories subject to the Franks.

Dagobert also took steps to secure trade across his empire by protecting important markets along the mouth of the Rhine at Duurstede and Utrecht.

28/02/2025

Childebert II was born in 570 AD as the only son of King Sigibert I and Queen Brunhilde. Childebert was only five years old when his father was murdered. After the assassination of his father, he was taken to Metz, and there he was recognized on December 25, 575 AD, as Childebert II, King of the Franks. The Marii Episcopi Aventicensis Chronica names him “Childebertus Filius Psius.” He became king, and thanks to the interference of his mother, he was accepted as his father's successor.

Because Childebert was too young to rule by himself, his mother acted as regent. However, this brought her into conflict with the Austrasian nobility, who wanted to rule on behalf of the minor Childebert. In the end, Brunhilde was even forced to flee to Bougondia and temporarily stay in exile here.

His government was characterized by war and chaos. Important conquests no longer occurred because family troubles required too much time and energy. His uncle Chilperic (whose wife Fredegonde had a hand in the death of his father) had still not given up on her attempts to annex Austrasia. It was Childebert's other uncle, Gontran of Burgundy, who protected him from the invasions of Chilperic. Since Gontran himself had no heirs, he adopted his young cousin in 577 AD.

King Chilperic of Neustria does not pay particular attention to the emissaries of King Childebert II because he was preoccupied with the construction of circuses and rings in Paris and Soissons in order to provide his people with spectacles.
On several occasions, however, the two competed for cities in the disputed area between Burgundy and Austrasia (including Poitiers and Tours). The arguments were eventually settled. In 581 AD, he was also appointed as the successor of Chilperik, whose marriage until then had remained childless. King Childebert’s queen is named Faileuba in the Treaty of Andelot, dated November 28, 587 AD. They had one child named Theodebert.

After Chilperik's death in 584 AD (stabbed on the orders of his "loving" wife), Fredegund had since given birth to a son, Chlotharius II, who succeeded him.

27/02/2025

The Order of Antrustions recommends the “King Dagobert Route” situated in the North Meuse Country in the Region of Stenay.

This route is full of historic, monuments and legends ready to be discovered.
The route is 110 km long and it’s a round trip that can be completed in 4 Days, with stops at 3 gites along the way.
There is also the possibility to take the short route of 60 km.

27/02/2025

Pre-Christian paganism was based on nature, harvest cycles, and seasons based on the sun's yearly death and rebirth, shown by the solar wheel (sw****ka), which also represents the soul's immortality. These religions were open to other religions as long as they didn't upset the state by attacking its ancient gods or disobeying its leaders. Christianity declared itself to be a worldwide religion, free from any local and national partiality, addressing all men in the name of the same God, and giving to all the same salvation, as opposed to Druidism, which was an exclusively national religion antagonistic to all that was alien.

It is one of history's oddest and most important realities that such a religion, no matter how numerous, should have emerged from Judaism. This event marked the inception of Christianity, and the striking contrast between its spiritual essence and its earthly foundations undoubtedly served as one of its most compelling appeals and most successful promotional tactics.

Remember that Jeshua didn't create a religion. Italian elites used him to create a new religion, diminishing his teachings while upholding their already established blood sacrifice-based beliefs. During his days, Jeshua referred to the dominant God in Jewish time as "the devil" and as a "murderer from the start," a "father of lies."

He didn't once name Yahweh since he didn't consider him to be his God. Jeshua was a revolutionary prophet. He criticized bankers and preached love. Christianity armed itself against paganism with moral forces that were equally powerful. A truly religious religion that was only interested in how people relate to God and their eternal future emerged in opposition to mythological traditions and poetical or philosophical allegories. They have a strong religious conviction, defending it against outside influences, and their greatest desire is to see their fellow human beings share in its benefits and aspirations.

They accepted martyrdom, sometimes to uphold their Christianity, other times to convert others around them. For them, propagandism was a responsibility that was almost as important as loyalty. It also served as the culmination and continuation of a modern, superhuman history—that of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and Son of Man—rather than in honor of antiquated myths and historical figures, in adherence to the laws originating from the One and Only God.

26/02/2025

The military occupied the majority of the Merovingian government's attention. All officials were fighters as well, and every significant official had a group of warriors. Each free man carried a weapon, and the majority had probably been conscripted into the army.

But most warriors were not professional fighters, in contrast to the kings' leudes. The majority of men were only fighters during the summer, when battles took place. Plundering, capturing prisoners of war, and capturing hostages who could be released in exchange for a ransom were the main goals of war. Captives who refused to pay their ransom became slaves in their own country.

Authority based on expertise was essential for all officials in charge of military campaigns. The reputation of a war leader was crucial in attracting warriors. His military prowess and wealth accumulation helped to shape his reputation. As the significance of their descent increased and their status changed to that of a symbol of the kingdom's unity, the kings found less significance in this.

A king might choose to delegate command of his troops to dukes and other officials because these men were also competitors for power. Lack of appreciation for expertise in the form of studied information made it difficult to grant a man leadership. According to reports, some experts supported powerful officials. Bishops received unique assignments, such as judging senior officials, and possessed some authority due to their education and position within the church.

The total number of people for whom a representative is directly accountable is known as his "span of control." An official's area of influence must be substantial to allow for adequate consultation with and management of each subordinate. Insufficient coordination will arise from a span of control that is too big, whereas excessive coordination will result from a span of control that is too small.

Most likely, division was not a choice but rather a necessity. Without the division, ambitious warlords might have chosen to attack the Merovingian kingdoms. The scope of a king's rule was excessive, even for one kingdom.

25/02/2025

The Church in Gaul acknowledged the bishop of Rome as St. Peter's heir, but the Pope had no real power in the area.

The bishops of Gaul varied over time. In the hazardous fifth century, they had settled down to become significant individuals within the emerging Frankish monarchy, having previously been upholders of the morale of besieged Roman communities. The local aristocracy needs them.
They were frequently referred to as arbiters, peacemakers, and diplomats. In his own city, each represented law and order. This wasn't just because so many bishops were aristocrats. They were truly considered the "high priests" of their respective territories. A high sedan chair, previously reserved for Roman consuls, would transport the consecrated bishop into his city. His activities as a judge and peacemaker were considered to bring God's and the saints' justice to earth. He orchestrated somber rites to bring God's blessing to the entire town. Whether they came from old "Roman" families or had climbed to the top as royal servants, many of these bishops were extraordinarily wealthy.

24/02/2025

As a ruler, Theudebert was credited with multiple military successes within and outside of Gaul, diplomatic relations with Constantinople, administrative achievements, including currency reforms, and generosity towards the Gallic Church. The praefatio referred to the acts of the Council of Clermont, which took place in 535 AD. Under Theudebert's direction, the assembled bishops offered a prayer for the King.

We pray to the Lord for his rule, long life, and for his people, asking him to bring good fortune to his realm, guide his state, and administer justice.

The Gallic Church in Theudebert’s lifetime and following generations displayed a close relationship with the king. When the Bishop of Verdun petitioned for financial aid for his city, the king responded generously.

Interestingly, the family of the bishop of Verdun, for whom the king had acted as patron, was involved in a murderous feud.

Gregory of Tours' Histories include a short passage in praise of Theudebert:

He showed himself to be exceptional and outstanding in all goodness. For he ruled his realm with justice, venerating the bishops, giving to churches, relieving the poor, and freely making many pious benefactions. He generously remitted all of the taxes that the churches in Auvergne had already paid to the Treasury.

Diplomatic tensions arose following King Theudebert's death between the courts of Eastern Emperor Justinian, who denounced the late monarch, and Theudebald, Theudebert's son and heir, who upheld his father's memory.

21/02/2025

The truth is not only enlightening but also radiant and captivating. Authenticity and honesty have a beauty and power that surpass superficial attractions. In a world where misinformation and deception are rampant, this reminds us to seek and cherish the brilliance of truth, which can liberate and empower us. It's a mantra that encourages us to embrace reality, even when it's challenging, and to celebrate the clarity and wisdom that come from embracing the truth.

In recent years, some experts claimed that we might see the Merovingians' initial steps in the style of the most ancient kingdoms, while others believed that we could detect vestiges of an original wisdom that they had acquired directly from heaven at the outset of their journey.

Nobody can doubt that the Merovingians had rich and diversified occult knowledge. The early stages of their history take place in Arcadia, which is mostly unknown to us.

20/02/2025

Marcomir I, King of the Sicambri, brought his people out of Scythia in 441 BC and settled them on the Danube. A pagan priest instructed him to travel west, where Brutus of Troy had previously gone, during a council. A pagan prophecy promises him victory over the Gauls and the Romans.

An embassy asks the Saxons for land to settle.

In April 439 BC, they left the lower Danube and moved overland, first north, then west, to the mouth of the Rhine. They settled in the countries now called West Friesland, Gelderland, and Holland.

It was difficult for Pliny, a Roman from Pompeii, to understand why these "barbarians" would choose to dwell on the edge of land and sea. Why would they want to reside in such desolate and damp areas? He was unaware that the native tribes had endured such conditions for more than eight centuries. According to Pliny's account, the coastal inhabitants built hills upon which they could erect their homes as a defense against the floods.

Marcomirus crossed the Rhine and conquered part of Gaul. One of his brothers was made governor.
According to the "Chronicle of Hunibald," Marcomirus died 926 years before the death of the first Christian King of the Franks, Clovis, in 511 AD. Anténor I married Cambra, the beautiful daughter of Belinus, King of Britain. She introduces the worship of Janus and establishes herself as the prophetess and priestess of Diana. From Cambra, the Scythian Trojans began to call themselves Sicambri.
Antenor's nephew, Grun, built Grningen in 386 BC. Antenor conquered Phrygia, the original Trojan homeland, and killed all the males.

Priamus: Under his rule, Sicambria switched to the Saxon language, with priests continuing to use Greek only for ceremonial purposes. Cambra establishes Neumagen, which is close to the Rhine's mouth, as the center of Jupiter's worship.

19/02/2025

The ruins were known as Sicambria, or the City of Attila, by the Germans. Why does this single name have nothing to do with Hungary? French historians are well aware of this: The name Sicambria refers to a city that was part of the Franks' exodus when Troy fell, where the Franks and later the French derived their origins. The name Sicambria undoubtedly comes from the name of a Frankish tribe, the Sugambri, which Roman authors also call Sycambri and Sicambri. The legions of Drusus annihilated these people in 12 BC, and the remnants established themselves in Gaul. Julius Caesar had said of them, “These men are born for war and raids.” No swamp or marsh will stop them. Their name lives on in a legion, but it also becomes a poetic and archaic synonym for Franks.

Fredegarius and the later 'Kings Chronicler" both claim that they moved under King Francio to the mouth of the Rhine, where they built a new Troy at Xanten (a river named after Xanthus, the river of Phrygia). The Romans, who called the town of Xanten T***a Nova, also attest to the existence of a new Troy at Xanten. In a similar vein, Julius Caesar referred to the people of London as "Trinovantes" because Brutus had founded their city as "New Troy." Procopius of Caesarea's "History of the Wars," V, xii, 7, 8, supports the idea that the Franks first settled at the mouth of the Rhine: "The Rhine empties into the ocean, and this is where the Germans of old... who are now called Franks" (Procopius of Caesarea, "History of the Wars," V, xii, 7, 8). In other words, Holland served as the Franks' primary residence in Western Europe.

18/02/2025

Gaul before the Romans and later the Merovingians.

Gaul (Latin: Gallia) was a region of Western Europe first clearly described by the Romans, encompassing present-day France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy. It covered an area of 494,000 km2 (191,000 sq mi). According to Julius Caesar, who took control of the region on behalf of the Roman Republic, Gaul was divided into three parts: Gallia Celtica, Belgica, and Aquitania.

Archaeologically, the Gauls were bearers of the La Tène culture during the 5th to 1st centuries BC. This material culture was found not only in all of Gaul but also as far east as modern-day southern Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary.

Warbands led by the Gaul Brennos sacked the city of Rome in 387 BC, becoming the only time Rome was conquered by a foreign enemy in 800 years. However, Gallia Cisalpina was conquered by the Romans in 204 BC and Gallia Narbonensis in 123 BC. Gaul was invaded after 120 BC by the Cimbri and the Teutons, who were in turn defeated by the Romans by 103 BC. Julius Caesar finally subdued the largest part of Gaul in his campaigns of 58 to 51 BC. Roman control of Gaul lasted for five centuries, until the last Roman rump state, the Domain of Soissons, fell to the Franks in AD 486.

While the Gauls shifted from a primarily Celtic culture during Late Antiquity, becoming amalgamated into a Gallo-Roman culture, Gallia remained the conventional name of the territory throughout the Early Middle Ages, until it acquired a new identity as the Capetian Kingdom of France in the high medieval period. Gallia remains a name of France in modern Greek (Γαλλία) and modern Latin (besides the alternatives Francia and Francogallia).

The Greek and Latin names Galatia (first attested by Timaeus of Tauromenium in the 4th century BC) and Gallia are ultimately derived from a Celtic ethnic term or clan Gal(a)-to-. The Galli of Gallia Celtica were reported to refer to themselves as Celtae by Caesar. Hellenistic etymology connected the name of the Galatians (Γαλάται, Galátai) to the supposedly "milk-white" skin (γάλα, gála "milk") of the Gauls. Modern researchers say it is related to Welsh gallu,[citation needed] Cornish: galloes, "capacity, power", thus meaning "powerful people".

Gaul c. 58 BC, on the eve of the Gallic Wars. The Romans divided Gaul into five parts: Gallia Celtica (largely corresponding to the later province Gallia Lugdunensis), Gallia Belgica, Gallia Cisalpina, Gallia Narbonensis, and Gallia Aquitania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul

18/02/2025

Because they were so afraid of leaving any evidence of ancient knowledge, the Serapeum temple in Alexandria was destroyed in 389 AD, along with the library. Christians, particularly Theodosius, Ambrosius, and Theophilus, were behind its destruction. Their motivation was conflicted; each of these leaders had a different objective. By replanting the ancient religion in new soil and engraving it onto Judaism, the concoctors themselves intended to preserve and continue it.

Theophilus wanted to establish the new religion as the enemy of the old by giving the impression that it had its own foundation and history. In order to deceive the Arians, Ambrose destroyed the library to give the appearance that Christianity's origins were solely supernatural.

The great loss, then, is not that of the first but that of the second library of Alexandria. Christians destroyed the Serapeum in order to hide the fact that their religion has a human origin. It was intended to give the impression that everything was focused on a single "holy" individual rather than being gathered and put together from a variety of sources.

Christianity, which appeared in the first century, was considered another version of Judaism. The early Christians were only perceived as a group of Jewish sects by the vast pagan ocean that encompassed the Roman Empire because their leader (the Saviour), who rebelled against the Roman state and was punished like one, failed to establish his kingdom. Only after passing through Egypt did Christianity solidify into a distinct religion and doctrine from Judaism, giving it three of the most crucial elements.