![]() Louis the German was made King of Bavaria.Lothair was made King of Italy and Co-Emperor and will receive the majority of the territory.In 817, Louis the Pious also solves the problem of his inheritance by dividing the empire between his 3 sons: The troubles under the reign of Louis the Pious (814 – 843) Charles the Younger was designated King of the Franks and as a result he was going to get the rest of the empire.īut Charles and Pepin died before Charlemagne in respectively 811 and 810.Īs a result, Louis was made co-Emperor in 813, and the entire Empire passed to him when Charlemagne died in 814.Pepin (born Carloman) was king of Italy and so he was going to receive Italy and Bavaria.Louis the Pious was king of Aquitaine and was going to received the area from the Alps to Aquitaine. ![]() Prior to the death of Charlemagne, a project of division of the Empire between the 3 sons of Charlemagne was established in 806: The Carolingian Empire at the death of Charlemagne (814) Under the reign of Charlemagne, we assisted to a Renaissance, called the Carolingian Renaissance. Charlemagne continued to call himself King of the Franks and Lombards, in addition to Roman Emperor. So thanks to the alliance between the Papacy and his family, he re-established the Western Roman Empire which was also called the Frankish Empire. In 800, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of the West by the Pope, after having rescued him against a conspiracy. Then in 778, he extended is kingdom to the south in the Iberian Peninsula with the annexation of the territories located at the north of the Ebro in Spain.Īfter that, he extended his Kingdom into Bavaria in 788. However the conquest of Saxony will last until 804, with wars and revolts Secondly, he started to conquered Saxon territories in 772. So he annexed their territories and declared himself King of the Lombards. It started in 774 with the Lombard Kingdom after that they threatened the new pope. The reign of Charlemagne and the Charlemagne Empire (768 – 814)Ĭharlemagne’s reign was one of near-constant warfare, with annual campaigns. Both were kings until the dead of Carloman in 771. Pepin the short died in 768 and, as a result, his two sons (Charlemagne and Carloman) inherited the kingdom. So in 751 Pepin became King of the Francs. Which the Pope accepted by declaring that “it is better to call the one who possesses the power King than the one who does not”. ![]() In 750, he asked the Pope Zachary the authorization to end the reign of the Merovingians by taking the crown in place of Childeric III. He was the Mayor of the Palace of the Merovingian and so he was the de facto ruler of Francia from 718 until his death in 748, but not the king.Īs a result of its victory against the Muslim, the Pope designed him as a defender in the West of the faith and the Church and ask to be under the Frankish protection.Ĭharles Martel died in 748 and his son Pepin III (Pepin the short) become also Mayor of the Palace of the Merovingian. The Carolingian Empire was located in the following present-day countries:Ĭharles Martel (the grandfather of Charlemagne) entered the history by stopping the Muslim army at the Battle of Tours in 732. Location of the Carolingian Empire on the world map It was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty (which is considered to be the second dynasty of France). The Carolingian Empire is a Frankish kingdom from the early Middle Ages and located in western and central Europe. ![]()
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