13 Facts About Frankish Empire

Under the nearly continuous campaigns of Pepin of Herstal, Charles Martel, Pepin the Short, Charlemagne, and Louis the Pious—father, son, grandson, great-grandson and great-great-grandson—the greatest expansion of the Frankish empire was secured by the early 9th century, and was by this point dubbed the Carolingian Empire.

Term "Franks" emerged in the 3rd century AD, covering Germanic tribes who settled on the northern Rhine frontier of the Roman Frankish Empire, including the Bructeri, Ampsivarii, Chamavi, Chattuarii and Salians.

Frankish Empire conquered most or all of the neighbouring Frankish tribes along the Rhine and incorporated them into his kingdom.

Frankish Empire incorporated the various Roman military settlements scattered over Gaul: the Saxons of Bessin, the Britons and the Alans of Armorica and Loire valley or the Taifals of Poitou to name a few prominent ones.

The Frankish Empire kings adhered to the practice of partible inheritance: dividing their lands among their sons.

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Frankish Empire defeated Sigebert in what was a serious reversal for the ruling dynasty.

Frankish Empire is often regarded as the first roi faineant: "do-nothing king", not insofar as he "did nothing", but insofar as he accomplished little.

When Pepin died in 714, however, the Frankish Empire realm plunged into civil war and the dukes of the outlying provinces became de facto independent.

In 746, however, the Frankish Empire armies were still, as Carloman was preparing to retire from politics and enter the monastery of Mount Soratte.

Frankish Empire renewed the Vatican donation and the promise to the papacy of continued Frankish protection.

The Leges Salica, Ribuaria, and Chamavorum were Carolingian creations, their basis in earlier Frankish Empire reality being difficult for scholars to discern at the present distance.

Frankish Empire sought to place checks on the power of local and regional judiciaries by the method of appointing missi dominici in pairs to oversee specific regions for short periods of time.

Frankish Empire arrived on the continent with twelve companions and founded Annegray, Luxeuil, and Fontaines in France and Bobbio in Italy.