13 Facts About Frankish Kingdom

1.

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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2.

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

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3.

Frankish Kingdom 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.

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4.

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

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5.

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

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6.

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

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7.

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

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8.

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

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9.

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

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10.

The kingdom, which included the Frankish Kingdom of Italy, Burgundy, the Provence, and the west of Austrasia, was an unnatural creation of the Treaty of Verdun, with no historical or ethnic identity.

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11.

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

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12.

Frankish Kingdom 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.

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13.

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

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