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  1. Administrator of the Merovingian royal court
  2. from 439 to 751 century. After the death of
  3. Dagobert I (605-39) and the subsequent
  4. decline of the Merovingian kings, holders of
  5. this office became, in effect, rulers of the
  6. kingdom and established a hereditary
  7. succession until 751, when the Carolingian
  8. line began with Pepin the Short.
  9.