Editing Chlothar II (section)

===Edict of 614===
In 614, Chlothar II convoked the [[Council of Paris (614)|Council of Paris]] and promulgated the [[Edict of Paris]], which reserved many rights to the Frankish nobles while it [[antisemitism|excluded Jews]] from all civil employment for the Crown.<ref>Alan Harding, ''Medieval Law and the Foundations of the State'', (Oxford University Press, 2001), 14.</ref><ref>S. Wise Bauer, ''The History of the Medieval World: From the Conversion of Constantine to the First Crusade'', (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010), 251.</ref> The ban effectively placed all literacy in the [[Merovingian]] monarchy squarely under ecclesiastical control and also greatly pleased the nobles, from whose ranks the bishops were ordinarily exclusively drawn. Article 11 of the Edict states that it is to restore "peace and discipline in [the] kingdom" and "suppress rebellion and insolence". The edict was ratified for all three kingdoms. Owing to several abuses of powers by officials, many of whom had been appointed by Chilperic, several mandates were made, among them the requirement that officials must have come from the region they officiate over.<ref>The word used is ''judex'', "judge", that is to say the earl or one of his subordinates. Cf. Lebecq, p. 125.</ref>

Chlothar was induced by Warnachar and Rado to make the mayoralty of the palace a lifetime appointment at [[Bonneuil-sur-Marne]], near [[Paris]], in 617.