Around 660, Frédégaire’s Historia Francorum introduces Francion, son of Friga and brother of Aeneas, who, with his companions, founds a powerful kingdom between the Rhine and the Danube. He defeats the Alans and is given the name “Franc” or “fierce.” Francion (Latin: Francus) is said to have been a Trojan prince who, with a few companions, survived the fall of his city to the Greeks around 1300 BCE. He supposedly migrated to Central Europe, settling along the Danube, where he founded Sycambria and became its king. From Frédégaire in the 7th century to Pierre de Ronsard in the 16th century, historians and poets have offered various versions of his origin and life, yet all depicted him as the eponymous ancestor of the French nation and its kings. From the 17th century onward, however, Francion and the legend of the Trojan origin of the Franks gradually faded into obscurity. Nevertheless, this legend was deeply rooted among Frankish princes in the Middle Ages, contributing to their supposed enmity towards the Greeks.
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