Chapter V

.). The forger and compiler of the _False Decretals_ in selecting the name of Isidore rather than another to clothe that collection with authority, acted under the universal veneration felt for this great Spanish Churchman.

[141] Marriages between Romans and Franks were legalized as early as 497.

[142] See Flach, _Les Origines de l’ancienne France_, vol. i. chap. i. _sqq._ (Paris, 1886).

[143] See _post_,