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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of French monarchs
		Another date favored by many medieval historians is 987, the beginning of the Capetian Dynasty, and of rule by the Direct Capetians.
		The Carolingians were a dynasty of rulers that eventually controlled the Frankish realm and its successors from the 8th to the 10th century, officially taking over the kingdom from the Merovingian dynasty in 751.
		Pippin the Younger Pippin the Younger or Pepin[1] (714 â€“ September 24, 768), often known under the mistranslation Pippin the Short or the ordinal Pippin III, was the king of the Franks from 751 to 768 and is best known for being the father of Charlemagne, or Charles the Great.
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	History of Art: From Carolingian to Romanesque A
		The history of the Carolingian dynasty is inextricably linked to the evolution of early medieval civilization in western Europe.
		Inaugurated by the coronation of Pepin the Short in ad751, the dynasty was eventually sent into decline by the division of the empire following the death of Charlemagne (ad742-814), whose aim of re-establishing a Roman empire involved a revival of the classical styles.
		The most important innovations of Carolingian church architecture were clearly influenced by the idea of joining church and empire in a single enterprise.
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	Frankish Empire information - Search.com
		From 751, under the Carolingian Dynasty, it is known as the Carolingian Empire.
		The term "Carolingian Empire" may be used to refer to the realm of the Franks under the dynasty of the Carolingians, but the term "Empire" applies particularly to the times after thee coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor in 800 by Pope Leo III.
		The Carolingian kingship traditionally begins with the deposition of the last Merovingian king, with papal assent, and the accession in 751 of Pippin the Short, father of Charlemagne.
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	Carolingian Dynasty (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Carolingian dynasty were rulers that controlled the Frankish realm from the 8th to the 10th century, taking over the kingdoms from the Merovingian dynasty in 751.
		The dynasty is usually considered to have been founded by Arnulf of Metz, Bishop of Metz in the late 7th century, who wielded a great deal of power and influence in the Merovingian kingdoms.
		Louis V was the last Carolingian king of France and reigned in Laon from March 2, 986 until his own death, at the age of 20, in 987.
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	Carolingians - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		CAROLINGIANS, the name of a family (so called from Charlemagne, its most illustrious member) which gained the throne of France A.D. It appeared in history in 613, its origin being traced to Arnulf (Arnoul), bishop of Metz, and Pippin, long called Pippin of Landen, but more correctly Pippin the Old or Pippin I.
		Charles Martel, however, a son of Pippin by a concubine Chalpaida, seized the mayoralty in both kingdoms, and he it was who continued the Carolingian dynasty.
		The Carolingian dynasty reigned in France from 751 to 987, when it was ousted by the Capetian dynasty.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Carolingian
		Toward the beginning of the Carolingian Period, in the 8th cent., a gradual change appeared in Western culture and art, a change that later reached its apex under Charlemagne.
		Carolingian empire The collection of territories in Western Europe ruled by the family of CHARLEMAGNE (768–814 AD) from whom the dynasty took its name.
		Carolingian renaissance Cultural revival in France and Italy under the encouragement of Charlemagne.
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	The French
		In the court of the later Carolingian king, Charles the Bald, the philosopher John the Scot reintroduced Neo-Platonism into European culture and began a strain of mystical and humanistic Christianity that would eventually effloresce in the Italian Renaissance.
		Even though the Carolingian dynasty lasted until 987, the Carolingian monarch was largely irrelevant in the government and control of the territories all throughout the tenth century.
		Technically, the king was the overlord of the dukes and counts, but in the later years of the Carolingians and the first couple centuries of Capetian rule, the dukes and counts ran their regions as more or less independent kingdoms.
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	Issue of the So-called 'Holy Roman Empire'
		A key factor shown is that while the Carolingian dynasty continued briefly, off and on, in the ruling house of France, it and the domain of Francia occidentalis had ceased to be any part of the newly created Germanic empire that emerged within Francia orientalis.
		The Treaty of Verdun (843) divided the Carolingian empire among the sons of Louis I. Lothar I retained title of 'emperor' and the kingdom of Italy.
		The posthumous son of Louis III, of the Carolingian dynasty.
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	Lorsch Abbey
		From carolingian sources we know quite a lot about the different plants and their use in the middle ages.
		After 1090 when the church had to be restored after a horrible fire the abbot decided to enlarge the carolingian church which was a basilica, in other words a nave flanked by two aisles.
		From the literal sources we know that the beginning in the carolingian era up to the Romanesque period several mosaic works were carried out in the monastery church.
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		It was founded by Pepin the Short, who deposed the last Merovingian king in 751, and it was named after Pepin's son Charlemagne, who greatly expanded the Frankish territories.
		Carolingian art consists of characteristic architecture (the Palatine Chapel in Aix-la-Chapelle [Aachen], built 792-805, survives), sculpture (only small works survive), metalwork, and illuminated manuscripts.
		The middle Frankish kingdom was divided into Italy, Lotharingia (Lorraine), and Provence; in the eastern Frankish kingdom (Germany) the dynasty survived until 911; and the western Frankish kingdom (France) was ruled by Carolingians until the failure of the line in 987.
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		Carolingian fortunes were initially advanced by the Merovingian king Clotar II (r.
		Despite this temporary setback for the Carolingians, Pepin I's grandson and duke of Austrasia, Pepin II of Heristal, managed to gain the mayoralty of both Austrasia and Neustria in 687.
		In 843 the treaty of Verdun ended the ideal of a united empire by dividing it into separate kingdoms for Louis the Pious's surviving sons: to Charles went the western regions, to Louis the German the eastern territories, and to Lothaire the middle section.
	www.utexas.edu /depts/french/web/Vessely/vessely/Carolingians.html (2240 words)

	Royalty.nu - The Carolingian Empire - Charlemagne and His Heirs
		This emperor had a chance to reunite the Carolingian empire -- not because he was a great leader, but because his brothers and cousins kept dying and he kept inheriting their kingdoms.
		Carolingian Chronicles: The Royal Frankish Annals and Nithard's Histories translated by Bernard W. Scholz and Barbara R. Rogers.
		Baptism and the education of the clergy in the Carolingian empire.
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	Germany The Carolingian Dynasty, 752-911 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, ...
		The remaining 250 years of the dynasty, however, were marked by internecine struggles and a gradual decline.
		The Carolingian Empire was based on an alliance between the emperor, who was a temporal ruler supported by a military retinue, and the pope of the Roman Catholic Church, who granted spiritual sanction to the imperial mission.
		The duchies were strengthened when the Carolingian line died out in 911; subsequent kings would have no direct blood link to the throne with which to legitimate their claims to power against the territorial dukes.
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	Continental Europe to 1054
		Among the Franks in Gaul a new dynasty of kings arose, the Carolingians, begun by Charles Martel (b.
		It was a dynasty dependent on the support of nobles, with whose help the Carolingians were able to fight wars and suppress peasant rebellions.
		These nobles recognized the Carolingian king as their overlord and the Carolingian king recognized the nobles as local rulers and rewarded them with land and booty for their services.
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		BIOGRAPHY: Louis was the Carolingian ruler of the Franks who succeeded his father, Charlemagne, as emperor in 814 and whose 26 year reign (the longest of any medieval emperor until Henry IV [1056—1106]) was a central and controversial stage in the Carolingian experiment to fashion a new European society.
		He was the fourth monarch of the Carolingian dynasty, preceded by his father; his uncle, Carloman; and his grandfather, Pippin III, the Short.
		Rotrud Carolingian, Princess of Italy was born 833 in Alsace-Lorraine région, France.
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		The main strength of the Carolingian army was the cavalry, which at first was in a minority but increased in numbers as time went on.
		Carolingians could be used in all sorts of scenarios as well as standard one-off tabletop battles.
		A long-running campaign might be based around the attempts of a local Frankish count and his retinue to beat off rampaging Vikings or Arabs (or both!), while establishing his authority over his Frankish rivals at the same time.
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	The Furniture of the Carolingian Empire
		The reign of Charlemagne is sometimes called the Carolingian Renaissance, 800-900 AD, because of the renewed vigour of art, architecture, and literature that was to be felt in his empire.
		The Carolingians had very large dining tables of the trestle type, held up by legs elaborately carved with sculptural decoration such as animal forms, in the style of ancient Roman and Greek furniture.
		A change occurred in the Carolingian period in the forms of writing furniture used in the study and library, rooms which remained popular in the homes of the wealthy.
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		The Merovingian dynasty continued formally with Thierry IV and Childéric III who was removed in 751 and this was the end of the dynasty.
		In 751 the Merovingian dynasty was overthrown by the Frankish noble Pepin the Short.
		March 28, 845: Paris (la Ville Lumière), the capital of the Merovingian dynasty of the Franks, is sacked by a group of marauding Viking pirates.
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	Carolingians. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Louis the German founded a dynasty that ruled in Germany (kingdom of the East Franks) until 911, his successors being Charles III (Charles the Fat), Arnulf, and Louis the Child.
		The third son of Louis I, Charles II (Charles the Bald), founded the French Carolingian dynasty, which ruled, with interruptions, until 987.
		In the Carolingian period, a landed economy was firmly established.
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	Ninth Century
		Radbot, educated at the court of the Carolingians, became the first bishop of Utrecht, which was the focal point of the new nation of Holland.
		This dynasty was founded by Mérovée (also Merovech or Merovius), a chieftain of the Sicambrian tribe in the early fifth century.
		Moreover the Carolingians and families associated with them were the Grail Race of people that nurtured the incipient Christ Impulse to fruition in the eight and ninth centuries.
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	Carolingian Empire - History - German Archive: The term Carolingian Empire is sometimes used to refer to the realm of ...
		Carolingian Empire - History - German Archive: The term Carolingian Empire is sometimes used to refer to the realm of the Franks under the dynasty of the Carolingians.
		The term Carolingian Empire is sometimes used to refer to the realm of the Franks under the dynasty of the Carolingians.
		Martel was also the founder of all the feudal systems that marked the Carolingian Empire, and Europe in general during the Middle Ages, though his son and grandson would gain credit for his innovations.
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	Ansegis Descendants - ansg05.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Pepin The Short King of Franks (Charles Martel, Duke Pepin, Mayor of Palace of Austrasia Ansegis, Bishop of Metz) was born in 714.
		He was born in 714 in Jupille, close to the city of Liège, in what is today Belgium, where the Carolingian dynasty originated.
		It can certainly be argued that Pippin's assumption of the crown, and the title of Patrician of Rome, were harbingers of his son's imperial coronation which is usually seen as the founding of the Holy Roman Empire.
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	Merovingian Dynasty
		This Latin title literally translates to "the greater one of the house"; the usual English translation is "Mayor of the Palace", although this official was not a mayor in the modern sense of the word.
		He was a Frankish king, and a member of the Merovingian dynasty, one of the four sons of Clovis.
		In the partition of his father's realm in 511 he received as his share the town of Paris, and the country to the north as far as the river Somme, and to the west as far as the English Channel.
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		The title of Emperor was held by several Carolingian Frankish monarchs until the ascencion of Otto I of the Eastern realm, in 962.
		Elections meant the kingship of Germany was only partially hereditary, unlike the kingship of France, although sovereignty frequently remained in a dynasty until there were no more male successors.
		Some scholars suggest that the task of the elections was really to solve conflicts only when the dynastic rule was unclear, yet, the process meant that the prime candidate had to make concessions, by which the voters were kept on side, which were known as Wahlkapitulationen (election capitulations).
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	Carolingian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Carolingian, sometimes called Carlovingian, dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a collection of territories in Western Europe from the 7th to the...
		In the late 8th and 9th centuries, the Carolingian style dominated continental Europe.
		- relating to early European kings: relating to the dynasty of Frankish kings descended from the Emperor Charlemagne that ruled France and Germany from the 8th to the 10th centuries
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	CAROLINGIAN Articles The Carolingian Dynasty (known vari
		The Carolingian Dynasty (known variously as the Carlovingians or Karlings) was a dynasty of rulers who began as mayors of the palaces and eventually became kings of the Franks (751).
		The Carolingians succeeded the Merovingian Dynasty and continued to rule in France until 987 when Louis V died.
		The dynasty is usually considered to have been founded by Saint Arnulf, bishop of Metz in the early seventh century, who wielded a great deal of power and influence in the Merovingian kingdoms.
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