523. Charlemagne: Return of the Kings (Part 1)

1387.327 - 1411.341 Tom Holland

So they look around and they find a Merovingian and he's a guy called Chilperic. Inevitably. And... They plonk him on the throne and he becomes Chilperic III. But the obvious solution to this whole problem is for him to be deposed, for the Merovingian monarchy itself to be abolished, and for either Carloman or Pepin, or perhaps both, to become kings. But there is a problem, which is...