FRANKISH KINGDOMS (FRANCIA)

By: Mady Basich and Emmalee Berger

BASIC INFO.

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ate 5th century to the 10th century A.D.

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he Western Germanic people

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nknown Origins

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yzantine Empire

BEGINNING

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aul under Byzantine control

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ast of Gaul was vast unconquered land Germania

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reat Migration (400 A.D.)• Germanians move into Gaul in masses• Franks, Alamans, Angles and Saxons, Burgundians, Lombards, and

Visagoths

Franks

Alamans

Visagoths

Britons and English Celts

Angle and Saxon

Lombards

Burgundians

Byzantines churches

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erovingian Dynasty• Clovis (481-511)• Alps to the Pyrenees • Roman Catholicism• Aristocracy• Counts vs. Bishops

RISE OF THE EMPIRE

• After Clovis• Weak Rulers• 6th and 7th Ceturies• Austrasia,

Nuestria, Burgundy• Pepin I and Arnulf

were the most powerful men in Francia

• Pepin II• Strengthens

Connection• Charles Martel

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harles Martel• Illegitimate son of Pepin II• Born 688 A.D.• Wanted power • Seized power in Nuestria• United Nuestria, Austrasia

and Burgundy while conquering Aquitaine

• Nicknamed the Hammer• Sons Pippin III and

Carloman

CHARLOGINIAN DYNASTY

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slam had taken Spain

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nvaders from Spain

T

he Battle of Tours

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harles “the hammer” was called to

aid Odo

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efeated Abd al-Rahmad

RISE OF ISLAM

CAROLINGIAN DYNASTY

Charlemagne Carlomon

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on of Pepin III

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rothers

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hicken when fighting Aquitaine

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ies 771 A.D. at 20

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on of Pepin III

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ought against Aquitaine uprise

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arried Desiderata to make peace with

Lombards

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edrada

T

ook control over all of Francia after his

brother died

CHARLEMAGNE

C

harles the Great became the overall ruler

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e wanted more power like his ancestors

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axony Siege (772)

•P

aderborn-chopped down the tree of life, and looted

Lombard Siege(773-774)

•P

avia, made them into ally but left them independent

CHARLEMAGNE CNT.

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axony Again and Bavaria

•7

75 returned and demanded conversion and alligience

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ots of fighting for many years, ended 788

•M

ost difficult and powerful

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oors

•M

uslims that had conquered Spain

•T

hey wanted help defeating the Basques in their country

•T

he Franks helped but were defeated, although they did add the Basque to their Empire

CHARLEMAGNE CNT. 2

7

94, against the Avars, Pepin and Charlemagne fought together

T

hen return to Saxony they forced conversion to all and a pledge of alligiance

B

ack Home

•H

e had blended Roman and Germanic culture

•H

e created schools, laws, government strength, stronger commerce, and literature, art,

and architecture.

FALL OF THE FRANKS

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is sons Charles, Louis, and Pepin –Heirs•8

10 Pepin, king of Italy, died•8

11 Charles, king of Saxony, died•

Lois lived to inherit All land and Emperor

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14 Charlemagne dies at 72

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ouis begins the fall by being weak in a time of peace

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is sons Charles, Lothair, and Louis•T

hey fought for control over territory•T

he Treaty of Verdun (843) divided the empire into three parts among the sons

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