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 Realm empire was secured by the early 9th century, and was by this point dubbed the Carolingian Empire.
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Frankish Realm conquered most or all of the neighbouring Frankish tribes along the Rhine and incorporated them into his kingdom.
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Frankish Realm 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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The Frankish Realm kings adhered to the practice of partible inheritance: dividing their lands among their sons.
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Frankish Realm defeated Sigebert in what was a serious reversal for the ruling dynasty .
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Frankish Realm 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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When Pepin died in 714 the Frankish realm plunged into civil war and the dukes of the outlying provinces became de facto independent.
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In 746 the Frankish Realm armies were still, as Carloman was preparing to retire from politics and enter the monastery of Mount Soratte.
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Frankish Realm renewed the Vatican donation and the promise to the papacy of continued Frankish protection.
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The Leges Salica, Ribuaria, and Chamavorum were Carolingian creations, their basis in earlier Frankish Realm reality being difficult for scholars to discern at the present distance.
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Frankish Realm 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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