What happened to the Merovingians after their deposition?

Basically what the title says: what happened to the Merovingian dynasty after it was deposed by the Pepin the Short? We know that the last king Childeric III and his son Thierry were forcefully tonsured, with the former dying in the mid-late 750s and the later either dying young or living as a monk, but nothing else. Were they the last of the dynasty or were there other (verifiable) branches that survived?
 
Basically what the title says: what happened to the Merovingian dynasty after it was deposed by the Pepin the Short? We know that the last king Childeric III and his son Thierry were forcefully tonsured, with the former dying in the mid-late 750s and the later either dying young or living as a monk, but nothing else. Were they the last of the dynasty or were there other (verifiable) branches that survived?
Honestly, I don't know. Never heard of them after.
But I guess nobody likes competition, even for the position of a puppet king (who might be used by somebody).
So, I presume, if the relatives of the Merovingians did not disappear before the deposition, they disappeared after.
Having in mind that killing relatives was kind of a family trait among the Merovingians since Clovis I, there were not too many of them left, I think.
 
Probably just disappeared to low nobility/peasantry. Merovingians commonly killed each others on several civil wars so there hardly was many Merovingian lineage left by mid-8th century. If some branches survived them probably became low-nobility or peasants who barely remembered their origin. And probably there wasn't anymore any direct male lineage so due salic law any possible descendant couldn't claim throne anyway.
 
Are the Merovingians, Carolingians, and Capetians all somehow related to each other?

Capetingians are descendants of Charlemagne so they are relatives of Carolingians. But connection between Merovingians and Carolingians are unsure. Some claims that Carolingians are descendants of some Merovingian branch and it might be true. But there not be any evidences about that so far as I know.
 
Basically what the title says: what happened to the Merovingian dynasty after it was deposed by the Pepin the Short? We know that the last king Childeric III and his son Thierry were forcefully tonsured, with the former dying in the mid-late 750s and the later either dying young or living as a monk, but nothing else. Were they the last of the dynasty or were there other (verifiable) branches that survived?

They were likely the last of their dynasty. Of any power, at least.

Are the Merovingians, Carolingians, and Capetians all somehow related to each other?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_dynasty#Frankish_dynastic_relationships
 

Anaxagoras

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They were buried until the glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre, of course. Then they disappeared into the Matrix. Everyone knows that.

:p
 
Capetingians are descendants of Charlemagne so they are relatives of Carolingians. But connection between Merovingians and Carolingians are unsure. Some claims that Carolingians are descendants of some Merovingian branch and it might be true. But there not be any evidences about that so far as I know.

Capetians were not male line descendants of Charlemagne, but like many other old European noble dynasties, they are descended from them through the female line. The house of Habsburg-Lorraine, also descends from Charlemagne through the female line.
 
So there was no other heirs left after Childeric III and Thierry? That would explain why there was no attempted Merovingian restoration or Merovingian inspired rebellion.
 
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