
	Where results make sense

Topic: Frankish kingdoms

Related Topics

List of Frankish Kings

Frankish Alb

Frankish language

Frankish Saale

Frankish realm

Frankish monarch

List of Frankish monarchs

Frankish Emperor

George V of the United Kingdom

George VI of the United Kingdom

Edward VII of the United Kingdom

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Franks
		The Frankish area expanded further under Clovis' sons, eventually covering most of what is today France, but including areas east of the Rhine river as well, such as Alamannia (today's southwestern Germany) and Thuringia (since 531).
		While in later France, the kingdom became hereditary, the kings of the later Holy Roman Empire were unable to abolish this tradition and continued to be elected until the Empire's formal end in 1806.
		On December 23 and 24, 800, Charles was crowned Emperor by Pope Leo III in Rome in a ceremony that formally acknowledged the Frankish Empire to be the successor of the (Western) Roman one.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/fr/Frankish.html (2140 words)

	Franks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The conversion to Christianity of the pagan Frankish king Clovis in the late 5th century was a crucial event in the history of Europe.
		The Frankish realm underwent many partitions and repartitions since the Franks divided their property among surviving sons and, lacking a broad sense of a res publica, they conceived of the realm as a large extent of private property.
		Because the Frankish kingdom dominated Western Europe for centuries, terms derived from "Frank" were used by many in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and beyond as a synonym for Roman Christians (e.g., al-Faranj in Arabic, farangi in Persian, Feringhi in Hindustani, farang in Thai, and Frangos in Greek).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Franks (2475 words)

	National Synods
		It meant plenary for all the provinces of Roman Africa or for the whole Visigothic Kingdom, in the same sense that the plenary Councils of Baltimore were meetings of the episcopate of the United States.
		The same was true of the Frankish national councils, where the episcopal assemblies were, as it were, duplicated by an assembly of nobles; occasionally, as at Mainz in 813, there was a third group, composed of abbots and monks.
		The list opens with three national councils which assembled the episcopate of the three kingdoms into which Gaul was divided at the beginning of the fifth century: Agde (506) for Arian Visigothic Kingdom; Orléans (511), for the Kingdom of the Franks; Epaone (517), for that of the Burgundians.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/synods,national.html (1052 words)

	Royalty.nu - Royal History - Empire of the Franks - Merovingian Dynasty
		The Royal Patronage of Liturgy in Frankish Gaul to the Death of Charles the Bald, 877 by Yitzhak Hen.
		Frankish patronage of liturgy started in the Merovingian period, but it was the Carolingians who used it to ease the acceptance of new political ideals.
		Texts and ordines for the coronation of Frankish and French kings and queens in the Middle Ages (the texts are not translated from Latin).
	www.royalty.nu /history/empires/Frankish.html (2024 words)

	The Frankish kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Burgundian kingdom was conquered 532-534 and as a result of the East Roman emperor’s war against the Ostrogoths were they forced to cede what remained of Alemannia together with Provence to the Frankish kingdom 536-537 in exchange for Frankish neutrality.
		The Frankish kingdom was also a feudal state that was held together by lucrative wars of plunder in the neighbouring countries.
		When the kingdom expanded its territory, the prospects of lucrative plundering decreased and with that also the loyalty of the nobility to the kings when they no longer could expect to be richly reworded for their services.
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/francia.htm (1568 words)

	[No title]
		The Carolingian Kingdom was focussed on the position of king, which had united the functions of Merovingian king and their powerful head of administration, the mayor.
		As the (West) Frankish kings continued to use this title, the West Frankish kingdom monopolized the title and came to be called as France.
		France is one of the successor states of the Frankish kingdom; however the name "France" should not be used for the time preceding the constitutional reform of 888, and is, for the period between 888 and 962, misleading, as during this period there were two kingdoms using that title.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/sat/texts/Franks.html (1785 words)

	Vikings & their Gods - the Franks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Under the Salian king Clovis I, founder of the Merovingian dynasty, the power and extent of the Frankish kingdom grew considerably.
		After the death of Clovis, the kingdom was divided among his four sons, and for the following century it went through several divisions and reunifications until finally consolidated by Clotaire II in 613.
		Frankish power attained its greatest development under Charles Martel's grandson, Charlemagne, who in his time was the most powerful monarch in Europe.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/vikings/franks.htm (460 words)

	Carolingian Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Because of this, most historians prefer to use the term "Frankish Kingdoms" or "Frankish Realm" to refer to the area covering parts of today's Germany and France from the 5th to the 9th century.
		Charles was guaranteed the Kingship of all lands to the east of the Rhine and to the north and east of Italy, which was called the Eastern Frankish Realm which was the precursor to modern Germany.
		Lothar II died in 869 with no legitimate heirs, and his Kingdom was divided between Charles the Bald and Louis the German in 870 by the Treaty of Meerssen.
	www.higiena-system.com /wiki/link-Carolingian_Empire (1471 words)

	History of THE FRANKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After the death of Dagobert the Frankish kings gradually lose power to their own lieutenants, in a pattern similar to what is happening at this same time in Japan (the process leading there to rule by shoguns).
		The Frankish equivalent of the shogun is the mayor of the palace.
		It lies exactly between the west and east Frankish kingdoms, a fact reflected in its modern position at the intersection between the borders of Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab74 (2721 words)

	The Franks
		Frankish kings are mentioned but none of these seems to have ruled effectively or for long, ambitious rulers preferring a more lucrative role in the service of the Empire.
		Frankish expansion was more a matter of conquest than colonisation and though some Franks did settle in northern Gaul, there was little upheaval of the native population.
		The power of the Frankish rulers rested primarily, however, on the Frankish army, and an important motive in their conquests was the need to win booty, land and revenues with which to reward (and thus maintain) the warriors' loyalty.
	www.fernweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /mf/franks.htm (664 words)

	Frankish Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Childeric's son Clovis engaged in a campaign of consolidating the various Frankish kingdoms in Gaul and the Rhineland, which included defeating Syagrius at the Battle of Tolbiac in 486, and decisively defeating the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse in the Battle of Vouillé in 507.
		The kingdom, which included the 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.
		The kingdom was split on the death of Lothair II in 869 into those of Lotharingia, Provence (with Burgundy divided between it and Lotharingia), and Italy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frankish_Empire (3134 words)

	Anglo-Saxons - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
		The origin myths of the earliest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms sometimes incorporate invitations from the British to settle in their own regions of Britain, but typically record warriors landing in ships and seizing territory in battles with the British.
		Examples are Kent (from Cantium), Lindsey (in the northern part of Lincolnshire), and the Northumbrian kingdoms of Deira (later Yorkshire) and Bernicia (County Durham, Northumberland, and south-eastern Scotland).
		It lists some 30 kingdoms and peoples (tribes), revealing the co-existence of both substantial regional kingdoms and of much smaller political units on their margins.
	au.encarta.msn.com /text_761579984__1/Anglo-Saxons.html (2525 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Franks
		Established at Paris, Clovis governed this kingdom by virtue of an agreement concluded with the bishops of Gaul, according to which natives and barbarians were to be on terms of equality, and all cause of friction between the two races was removed when, in 496, the king was converted to Catholicism.
		The Frankish kingdom thereupon took its place in history under more promising conditions than were to be found in any other state founded upon the ruins of the Roman Empire.
		During the minority of the Frankish kings he acquired steadily greater importance until he came to share the royal prerogative, and eventually reached the exalted position of prime minister to the sovereign.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06238a.htm (5019 words)

	The Dissolution of the Frankish Empire
		Unlike his father Louis wanted to preserve the unity of the Frankish Empire, his younger sons were given kingdoms of their own, but they had to acknowledge their elder brother Lothair’s overlordship as Roman emperor.
		The Civil war resulted in the treaty of Verdun in which the Frankish empire was divided into three parts, Lothair got the middle kingdom and kept the title of emperor but without overlordship over his brothers.
		It was no longer enough that collateral branches of the royal dynasty became extinct for the Frankish kingdom to be reunited, instead it was necessary that the local nobles in every kingdom elected the same king, and that was something they did not have any interest to do.
	www.tacitus.nu /historical-atlas/francia2.htm (955 words)

	A Chronology of World Political History (801 - 1000 C.E.)
		Upon death of King Lothaire I of [Middle] Frank, his kingdom was partitioned by his three sons, who ruled the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Lotharingia and the Kingdom of Provence, respectively.
		Omer ibn Khafsun, a noble of the former Visigothic Kingdom, staged a peasant uprising in the Ronda mountain region in opposition to Cordoba and established the Ronda Rebels' Regime.
		The [East] Frankish feudal lords elected Duke Konrad I of Franconia as King of Germany and established the Kingdom of Germany.
	www.geocities.com /kfzhouy/Chron/Chron5e.html (4835 words)

	First Europe Tutorial - Frankish Empire
		The Merovingians had a poor sense of government and administration, and the Frankish practice of dividing the kingdom equally among the king's sons was their greatest liablity in their attempt to create a unified Frankish state.
		In 511, Clovis' kingdom was divided among his four sons, creating the new political units of the Kingdoms of Reims, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.
		The Slavs and the Avars posed a threat on the northeastern frontier, the Lombards on the southeastern frontier and the Muslims on the southwestern frontier.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/firsteuro/frank.html (1375 words)

	[No title]
		Another society that stressed community were the Frankish kingdoms, settled in the 4th century AD in what is now the Netherlands.
		Therefore, the Frankish kingdoms used their family relationships to interconnect the community and serve as a basis for their economic and political platforms.
		Similar to the Frankish kingdoms, family was an important concept to the Irish Celts, who established themselves around the 6th century in Ireland.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/a/m/ams583/history.doc (1088 words)

	Identity and Cultural Exchange 600-1600: Allan McKinley, 'The Journeying of a Universal Saint'
		The same process can be observed throughout the Frankish kingdoms during this period; numerous churches were founded in honour of St. Martin.(14.
		During the early seventh-century, the political divisions within the Merovingian kingdoms became fossilized, with the political community divided between the eastern kingdom of Austrasia and a joint kingship of the north-western kingdom of Neustria and Burgundy.
		Aquitaine was divided between the two kingdoms, and Tours fell to the part of the eastern kingdom, Austrasia.
	www.english.bham.ac.uk /medievalstudies/ice/McKinley.htm (3922 words)

	[No title]
		A true Austrasian, he is faithful to the old Frankish ideal of military conquest; but he gives it a new meaning, and besides fulfilling the projects of his predecessors goes beyond the horizon of their most ambitious enterprises.
		Within a generation the Frankish realm is partitioned after the Merovingian fashion; all that remains as a guarantee of unity is the imperial title attached to one of several kingdoms, and the theory that the kings are linked in fraternal concord for the defence of Church and State against all enemies.
		The kingdom of the East Franks is wholly Germanic; that of the West Franks contains the Gallo-Roman provinces subdued by Clovis; but between them lies the anomalous Middle Kingdom, the portion of the titular Emperor, in which are united Italy, Provence, Burgundy, the valley of the Moselle and a large part of the Netherlands.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext04/mdvlp10.txt (22208 words)

	Frankish Kingdoms 814 — 898 — The West
		Frankish Kingdoms 814 — 898 — The West
		Chalres trying to divide own kingdom with Luis given Neustria and Charles given Aquitaine — 860s elder sons rebelled and Chalres crushed them — greater automy was the aim as Charles held them on a tight reign no charters or coins — Charles of Aquitiane died 866 — 867 Louis the Stammerer send to Aquitaine
		The Emergence Of The East Franksih Kingdom 800 — 43
	www.revision-notes.co.uk /revision/319.html (681 words)

	[No title]
		Roman law codes were passed from kingdom to kingdom, as each adopted, added and abolished as they saw fit.
		The laws of the barbarian kingdoms had to maintain a delicate balance between in appeasing the Romans, who were still superior numerically, and the ruling barbarian aristocracy, since they were indeed in charge.
		Politically, although the successor kingdoms were founded in violence, and disrupted the unity Rome had long spent time establishing, we can still see that there remained several aspects of political life that heralded back to times when the Romans had been in full control.
	www.cs.mcgill.ca /~jkelih/works/change.html (4006 words)

	Franks
		But it all came together in the 8th century, as the kings, especially the Frankish kings, realized that they could combine the manor system with all their knights to produce a system that would provide trained soliders for the crown and also put reliable men in local positions of authority throughout the kingdom.
		Some of the German nobles who adopted this system, especially the ones in former Roman lands, realized that it was basically an adoption of the 3rd century Roman system of giving the large estate owners government authority over their lands and people and the responsibility for raising troops.
		For a number of reasons, the French portion of the Frankish kingdom remained united while the German portion broke into a muddle of independent states that were not united until 1870.
	www.hyw.com /books/history/Franks.htm (1847 words)

	The Light & the Dark: VADEMECUM - THE CAROLINGIAN ERA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lothar I, the ruler of the Middle Kingdom, became emperor (Treaty of Verdun in 843).
		The Frankish subjection of the Saxon nation was only achieved in a long series of wars, lasting for decades.
		The Frankish rearguard, commanded by Roland, margrave of Brittanny, was surprised by the Basques in the Pass of Roncevalles in the Pyrenees and entirely annihilated.
	home.wanadoo.nl /piet.fontaine/volumes/carolingian.htm (1640 words)

	OhioLINK ETD: Crisp, Ryan
		Marriage and alliance in the Merovingian Kingdoms, 481-639
		An explanation of the meaning, motives and practical implications of the kinship connections of the Merovingians, both those by blood and those made through marriage to other royal families, is rooted in the particular nature of the Merovingian kingdoms and Frankish kingship.
		This created a situation, therefore, where the resources of the Frankish kingdom were divided among multiple kings.
	www.ohiolink.edu /etd/view.cgi?osu1063646754 (373 words)

	Kings of France
		The original core of Francia, the Frankish Kingdom that came to dominate the West under Charlemagne, can be identified as those areas upon whose ruler the Pope at one time or another conferred a crown as the Roman Emperor.
		This, of course, reveals the relative strengh of the Western and Eastern Frankish kingdoms, and the persistent ruthlessness of Charles the Bald and Louis the German.
		Germany was divided between three brothers, and the West Frankish kingdom, after the brief reign of Louis (II) the Stammerer, passed to his two young sons.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/family/1155/kingofra.htm (2664 words)

	A THOUSAND YEARS OF THE HUNGARIAN ART OF WAR
		Their raids against the West Frankish kingdom began before the turn of the ninth century and came to an end only in 911, when Charles the Simple (898-922), king of the West Franks, recognised Rolle, leader of the Normans, as duke of Normandy.
		Henry the Fowler (918-936) was the first Saxon king of the East Frankish kingdom, a rich and energetic man who began to fortify the eastern frontiers of his kingdom against the Slavs and Magyars.
		Four decades later, the land of the nomad Magyars became known in Europe as the Hungarian Kingdom of Stephen I. Having converted to Christianity and replaced their nomadic occupations by agriculture, the Magyars were accepted as equal members of the community of Christian peoples of Europe.
	www.hungarian-history.hu /lib/thou/thou02.htm (2490 words)

	500 AD - 1500 AD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the early part of the period, the Roman province of Gaul gives way to the Frankish kingdoms, led for some 250 years by the Merovingian kings.
		In addition, to aid expansion and administration of the kingdom, Charlemagne promotes, what is called later, the "Carolingian Renaissance." Prior to this revival of learning, practically the entire realm (with the exception of Benedictine England) is illiterate due to the decay of the Roman Empire.
		The grandest expression of Mathilde's munificence is a golden statue of the Virgin, which is one of the earliest surviving large-scale sculptures from medieval Germany.
	www.earth-history.com /Europe/eur-medieval.htm (8507 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Frankish Kingdom, the Carolingian Dynasty, 751-887
		In 768 the kingdom was partitioned among Pepin's sons Charles (CHARLEMAGNE) and Carloman.
		His 3 sons partitioned the Kingdom in 843/870/880 into what became the nuclei of France (the West Frankish Kingdom), Germany (the Eastern Frankish Kingdom) and Benelux/Switzerland/Italy (the Middle Frankish Kingdom).
		Under CHARLES THE FAT in 885-887, the East and West Frankish kingdoms (which had acquired the northern part of the middle Frankish kingdom in 870) were united one last time.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/carolingians.html (492 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)