Rulers of Frisia

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Of the first historically verifiable rulers of Frisia, whether they are called dukes or kings, the dynasty below is established by the chronicles of Merovingian kings, with whom they were contemporaries.

In these contemporary chronicles, they were styled dux, a Latin term for leader which is the origin of the title duke and its cognates in other languages (duc, duce, doge, duque, etc). They were independent until the death of Radbod at the earliest.

Folcwald and Finn are semi-legendary figures, but J. R. R. Tolkien (Finn and Hengest) is convinced that they correspond to historical rulers (which would date to the late 5th century, or the time of Clovis I).