There's geneologies which trace back to the Merovings.
MERO KINGs
Thinking that , say a kingly linege conquor land; If they go back too far and have no name for the ancestor, They just say "Well the mother climbed out of the ocean"
It's less than a real mystery.
The last Merovingian King was supposeldy betrayed by an advisor named Pippen? Who then took control of the lineage.
MER = ocean in French
VING = Kings?
Kings who's lineage arose from the Ocean.
Maybe they landed in France after the Trojan war?
Came by Water?
Bees is their symbols so seems like Egyptian connect?
Emperors / Monarchs were buried in Egypt? So it's believed. "Pharoahs"