It was a good question, with a definitive answer. (And I could not resist being funny). I'm off to bed now, two baseball games to coach early.

But I would say quickly that the post-Fall of Rome political entities were not Roman by any means. That is, they were not Roman (or even composed of former socii) by nationality; they were not Roman in their political makeup (e.g. the Senate, the Imperium Romanum, etc.). They were what the Romans would call barbarian (e.g. foreign, mostly Germanic).

Note that the quote refers to post-Roman Frankish entities (Clovis, etc.) I don't think you can even argue that the post-Theodosian Empire is Roman (it is Byzantine), so I don't know how someone could argue that Frankish Kingdoms were Roman.

I hope that helps. Or to put it another way: "Nope."

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