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''Liber historiae Francorum'' is customarily dated to 727 because of a reference at the end to the sixth year of Theuderic IV . It is one of a corpus of new books of history written in the 8th century, and copied and widely distributed in the 9th, that offered their readers (and listeners) a deep background that set the Franks in the context of the Roman Empire and Christian Gallo-Roman world. The Franks originated with a group of Trojan refugees who found themselves on the north coast of the Black Sea . From the outset it promises to present the origins and deeds of the Frankish kings and people, but the early chapters rely so heavily upon the 6th-century Gallo-Roman bishop and historian Gregory Of Tours that they have been underestimated by historians. The last eleven chapters present a wholly original account of events in the Frankish lands in the 7th and early 8th centuries. FURTHER READING
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