Fantasy portrait from a seventeenth-century book
Pharamond (Faramund) (c. 370 - c. 427) is considered by some to be the first king of the Salary Francs, although he has probably been legendary than a historical figure. He would have been a son of Marcomer and Frotmund. History
About 420, Pharamond would have led his people to the west. The Salic Francs crossed the Rhine and settled in northern Gaul, which had been abandoned by the Roman army for some time. The Romans concluded a treaty with the newcomers: in exchange for a settlement, the Francs would be required to take on the defense of the Rhine border. Pharamond would be succeeded by his son Clodio or Chlodian VI. His wife would have called Argotta, a daughter of Genobaud, who would be a son of legendary commander Dagobert (died around 389). Sources
The first source called a king Pharamond, in one sentence, is the eighth-century Liber Historiae Francorum, which was intended to give the Franks a specific past (the anonymous author was a monk of the Saint-Denis abbey , which was under the influence of court maiden Karel Martel). The Benedictine monk Martin Bouquet (1685-1754) conceived a whole story about King Pharamond. An old translation error in Liber Historiae Francorum led some historians from the Early Modern era to write the mention of Pharamond to the historian Prosper of Aquitaine (approx. 390-455), a contemporary so. And to complete the confusion, Gregory of Tours mentions another Pharamond, a priest from Paris who lived in the second half of the sixth century. But in the nineteenth century, it was finally proved that King Pharamond was a fiction. Also see
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