Clovis I Was My Grandfather

I have spent five posts explaining Henry Lincoln's sacred geometry, the elemental pentagram of southern Gaul, and the spells Merona casts in the ancient Languedoc.

Now I need to tell you why I know all of this.

Not because I am a scholar. Not because I stumbled across Lincoln's books in a library. Because when I began researching my own family genealogy — tracing my roots back through generations of European ancestry — I kept arriving at the same place.

The Merovingians.

And their first great king: Clovis I.

Who Clovis was

Clovis I (c. 466–511 AD) was the founder of the Frankish kingdom that would eventually become France. He united the Frankish tribes, defeated the last Roman governor of Gaul, and converted to Christianity — a conversion that shaped the entire course of Western European history. The Catholic Church called him the "New Constantine." He was baptized in Reims by Saint Remigius, an event that echoes through French history to this day.

He was also, according to Lincoln's research, heir to a bloodline that the sacred geometry of southern Gaul was built to protect. The Merovingians claimed descent from Merovech — a figure so shrouded in legend that some histories suggest he was born of a sea creature, carrying supernatural blood in his veins.

Who Clovis is to me

He is my grandfather.

Through generations of genealogical research — cross-referenced records, royal lineage databases, documented medieval family trees — I traced my ancestry back through European nobility to the Merovingian court. To Clovis I.

I am descended from the sacred bloodline that Henry Lincoln spent decades documenting.

When I first understood this, I sat with it for a long time. It felt too large to absorb. It felt like something that should belong to historians and academics, not an indie author from Williamsburg, Virginia.

And then I started writing Labyrinth of Shadows.

What it means for the series

Merona is a reborn witch who masters the sacred pentagram of Gaul and arrives in Paris to stand beside the Merovingian king. She is the guardian of the sacred pattern — the elemental force that protects the bloodline that will shape the course of history.

She protects Clovis.

She protects my grandfather.

I did not write this series as a fantasy novel with a clever academic overlay. I wrote it as the story I was born to tell — the story of the landscape my ancestors walked, the geometry they encoded, the bloodline they carried forward through fifteen centuries to arrive, eventually, at me.

Every Gaelic spell in this series is authentic language. Every sacred site is a real place. Every elemental point is a documented location in a researcher's pentagram.

And the king Merona rides beside in Paris is my family.

If that changes how you read Labyrinth of Shadows — good. It should.

— Michaela