Bavo The Merovingian

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I found him! Bavo is on the shutter of Bosch’s masterpiece. Allowin will be the name of my Tolkien Revelation.

Dreamer Jon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Judgment_(Bosch_triptych)

Saint Bavo of Ghent (also known as Bavon, Allowin, Bavonius,[1] and Baaf) (622–659) was a Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodoxsaint.

Life[edit]

Bavo was born near Liège, to a Frankish noble family that gave him the name Allowin.[2] His father was Pippin of Landen, the Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia.

A wild, young aristocrat of Brabant [nl], he contracted a beneficial marriage, and had a daughter through it. He was a soldier[1] who led an undisciplined and disorderly life. Shortly after the death of his wife, Bavo decided to reform after hearing a sermon…

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