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3 days ago · With his brother, Carloman I, he became king of the Franks in 768 following Pepin's death and became the sole ruler three years later. Charlemagne continued his father's policy of protecting the papacy and became its chief defender, removing the Lombards from power in northern Italy in 774.
4 days ago · Carloman’s death in 771 saved the kingdom from civil war. Charlemagne dispossessed his nephews from their inheritance and reunited the kingdom under his own authority. Charlemagne consolidated his authority up to the geographic limits of Gaul.
3 days ago · At the death of Charles the Bald, Louis’s son Carloman seized Italy and intended to take the imperial title, but ill health forced him to abandon his plans. Carloman’s youngest brother, Charles the Fat, benefited from the circumstances and restored the territorial unity of the empire.
5 days ago · The new pope, Stephen II (or III), sought aid from Francia; in 754 at Ponthion he gave Pippin the title Patrician of the Romans, renewed the king’s consecration, and consecrated Pippin’s sons, Charles and Carloman, thus providing generational legitimacy for the line.
1 day ago · July 6, 2024 Lady Morgana. Kingdom of the Franks. Around 428, Chlodio launched an attack on Roman territory and extended his realm as far as Camaracum and the Somme. The Merovingians, arose from within the military, with Childeric and his son Clovis being called “King of the Franks” even before having any Frankish territorial kingdom.
3 days ago · Carloman annexed Rastislav's realm and appointed two Frankish lords, William and Engelschalk, to administer it. Frankish soldiers arrested Archbishop Methodius on his way from Rome to Moravia at the end of the year.
4 days ago · Charles Martin (10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477) called The Bold [a], was the last Duke of Burgundy from the Burgundian cadet branch of House of Valois from 1467 to 1477. He was the only legitimate son of Philip the Good and his third wife, Isabella of Portugal.
