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 Kingdom empire was secured by the early 9th century, and was by this point dubbed the Carolingian Empire.
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