This sandbox is obsolete and has been implemented on the new List of Frankish Kings page. The sandbox was a prototype for merging the confusing information previously at List of Frankish Kings, Merovingian Dynasty, and Carolingian Dynasty into one page with HTML tables to make this chaos a bit more lucid. See Talk:List of Frankish Kings for a list of changes that were triggered by this merge. — djmutex 21:50 31 May 2003 (UTC)
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Childebert I 511-558 (Paris) |
Clotaire I 511-561 (Soissons) |
Theuderic I 511-534 (Reims) |
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Theudebert I 534-548 (Reims) |
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Theudebald 548-555 (Reims) |
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Clotaire I 511-561 (continued) |
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Mayors of the Palace formally still under Merovingian kings:
- Arnulf of Metz
- Pippin I, the Elder* 628-639
- Pippin II* 687-714
- Charles Martel* 714-741
- Carloman* 741-747
- Pippin III, the Short* 747-751
Carolingian Kings, succeeding the Merovingian dynasty:
- Pippin III, the Short 751-768
- Carloman 768-771
- Charlemagne 771-814
- Louis the Pious, 814-840
The Frankish kingdom was then divided with the Treaty of Verdun in 843 among the sons of Louis the Pious. The following table lists only the members of the Carolingian dynasty in the three subdivisions, which are the kernels of later France and the Holy Roman Empire, each with different ruling dynasties.
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West Franks (eventually France) |
East Franks (to become the Holy Roman Empire) |
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Names marked (*) are Robertians and (**) are from the house of Boso -- both were distantly related to the Carolingians.
After this, the Capetian dynasty ruled France.
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Louis II had only daughters, one of whom, Ermengard, married Boso of Provence, thus providing the family connection for Rudolph of Burgundy's claim to the throne. |
After this, Conrad of Franconia ruled from 911-918, and was followed by the Saxon (Ottonian) kings, which is commonly considered the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire.
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For further reading
edit- The history of France as recounted in the "Grandes Chroniques de France," and particularly in the personal copy produced for King Charles V between 1370 and 1380 that is the saga of the three great dynasties, Merovingian Dynasty, Carolingian Dynasty, and Capetian Rulers of France, that shaped the institutions and the frontiers of the realm. This document was produced and likely commissioned during the Hundred Years' War, a dynastic struggle between the rulers of France and England with rival claims to the French throne. It should therefore be read and considered carefully as a source, due to the inherent bias in the context of its origins.
- The Cambridge Illustrated History of France - Cambridge University Press
- The Origins of France: Clovis to the Capetians 500-1000 by Edward James ISBN 0333270525
- Late Merovingian France: History and Hagiography, 640-720 (Manchester Medieval Sources); Paul Fouracre (Editor), Richard A. Gerberding (Editor)ISBN 0719047919
- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Merovingian Dynasty: [1].
- Medieval France: An Encyclopedia , eds. W. Kibler and G. Zinn. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995.