The long hair marking Dagobert II as a Merovingian prince was gone, replaced instead by a tonsure that marked his as a monk...

Bathilda was slender and had long, golden hair, but more than this, the girl walked with poise strikingly out of place in a slave market...

Hey, I know this is supposed to be an “off” week, but it has been a while since we brought you a Rabbit Hole episode and we've come...

There's a saying that you should never meet your heroes. Well, as I recently found out, you should never research them either.

“The Queen is dead, bishop, and our King is now an orphan. I rule the in his name, and that makes it my responsibility to tell him..."

Samo sat alone before his campfire, considering the battle to take place and how best to prosecute his attack against the mighty Franks.

Unlike his father, who had to rely on luck, illness and a homicidal mother for the throne, Dagobert had a more conventional ascension.

Chlothar II loved to hunt, and that's what he did while others ruled his Kingdom - right up to death. His reign led in a legacy of decline.

From now on, all Kings will be given a simple number, a W.A.R., to allow us to understand their strength as a ruler in their own time.

I'm trying to develop a single number that will compare the Kings and let us know who was good, who was bad, and who was just replaceable!

A Roman beheading. A stag hunt. A slighted guest. How these came together to make Paris' Basilica of St Denis the resting spot of royalty...

So, you may have noticed that I've not done much to notice for the past two months. No new episodes, no new blog posts, no social media....

People assume that being king was a glorious, entertaining, easy way of life. Glorious? Absolutely. Entertaining? Sometimes. Easy? Never.

The goal at T+M is to be as transparent as possible and to spark a discussion. Source list of Season 2 Episode 1: The Cost of Doing Business

Chlothar II needed a new place to sit, a throne befitting his station as the new King of the Franks. But where to find a good craftsman?

On 5 Nov 1831, thieves broke into the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and stole more than 2,000 pieces; one man would hunt them down...

The goal at T+M is to be transparent; as such, here's the source list for Rabbit Hole #4 - Eugène-François Vidoqc, the French Police Spy.

The final thoughts I have for Season One, what surprised me the most, is the sheer number of civil wars fought amongst the Merovingians...

King Chlothar II struck the jackpot in almost every conceivable way in his life, and it culminated with him becoming King of All the Franks.

I never would've imagined the ways in which Merovingian women were a part of the history, or the wide-ranging impacts of their interventions