Antrustiones
An antrustion ( la, antrustio, plural ''antrustiones'') was a member of the bodyguard or military household of the Merovingian dynasty, Merovingian kings of the Franks. The bodyguard itself is called the ''trustis'' (french: truste), a Frankish language, Frankish word with a Latin ending, possibly signifying comfort, aid, fidelity, trust (compare Old High German ''trost''). An alternative etymology relates it to :wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/druhtiz, proto-Germanic *''druhtiz'', warband, whence old high German and perhaps Slavic languages, Slavonic . Information about the antrustions is derived from one of the Formulary of Marculf, ''formulae'' of Marculfus and from various provisions of the Salic law.See du Cange, ''Glossarium, s.'' "trustis". Anyone desiring to enter the antrustions had to present himself armed at the royal palace, and there, with his hands in those of the king, take a special oath or ''trustis'' and ''fidelitas'', in addition to the oath of fidelity sworn ...
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Franks
The Franks ( la, Franci or ) were a group of Germanic peoples whose name was first mentioned in 3rd-century Roman sources, and associated with tribes between the Lower Rhine and the Ems River, on the edge of the Roman Empire.H. Schutz: Tools, Weapons and Ornaments: Germanic Material Culture in Pre-Carolingian Central Europe, 400-750. BRILL, 2001, p.42. Later the term was associated with Romanized Germanic dynasties within the collapsing Western Roman Empire, who eventually commanded the whole region between the rivers Loire and Rhine. They imposed power over many other post-Roman kingdoms and Germanic peoples. Beginning with Charlemagne in 800, Frankish rulers were given recognition by the Catholic Church as successors to the old rulers of the Western Roman Empire. Although the Frankish name does not appear until the 3rd century, at least some of the original Frankish tribes had long been known to the Romans under their own names, both as allies providing soldiers, and as e ...
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