1 / 11

Franks (Carolingian Dynasty)

Franks (Carolingian Dynasty). By Elisabet Benitez. Important figures . Pippin II: first of the great Carolingian mayors Charles Martel: illegitimated son of Pippin II who became a mayor, reunited the Frankish realm and stemmed the Muslim invasion at Poitiers

varana
Download Presentation

Franks (Carolingian Dynasty)

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Franks (Carolingian Dynasty) By Elisabet Benitez

  2. Important figures • Pippin II: first of the great Carolingian mayors • Charles Martel: illegitimated son of Pippin II who became a mayor, reunited the Frankish realm and stemmed the Muslim invasion at Poitiers • Pippin III: divided the realm with his brother but then became the sole king • Charlemagne: Pippin III son who reunited all the territories and conquered Gaul and into Germany and Italy and crowned emperor of the restored Roman Empire

  3. Major historical events • 751: Pippin III is declared king beginning the Carolgian dynasty • 768: Pippin III dies, kingdom divided between Charles and his brother Carloman • 771: Carloman dies, Charles becomes sole ruler • 772: Charlemagne makes his first raid on the Saxons • 774: Conquers Lombardy • 781: Charles makes pilgrimage to Rome, his son proclaimed King of Italy • 788: Brings all the territory of Germanic tribes into one • 800: Helps pope when under attack, pope declares him Emperor of rome • 814: He dies

  4. Religion • The catholic church was struggling against the Lombards in southern France, Frankish kingdom was in political and spiritual disarray and northern Europe was mostly pagan. • Charlemagne conquered and Christianized the pagan north • He subdued the Lombards • Brought order to the Frankish kingdom • He sought to recreate a Christianized western empire • Because of this he was crowned Holy Roman Emperor

  5. Largest territorial extent

  6. Economy • Chalemagne abolished the monetary system based on the gold and took up the system of silver, mostly because of shortage of gold • Based upon a pound of silver (a unit of money and weight) • He instituted principles for accounting practice, which laid down strict rules for the way income and expense were to be recorded • He allowed Jews to monopolize money lending but once he became king of Rome, it was proscribe for being against Church law at the time

  7. Culture • They were big in education so much that Charlemange opened a lot of schools In art it embraced classical Mediterranean Roman art • Set the stage for the rise of Romanesque Art and Gothic art • Illuminated manuscript, metalwork, small-scale sculpture, mosaics, and frescos survive from this period • Charlemange loved music so much that scholars created a neumes in camp aperto (without staff-lines), and looked more into music theory

  8. Lombards • Came from a small tribe from southern Scandinavia • After 554 the king took his people to Italy • Invaded Italy with Saxons, Ostrogoth and a few more • By 569 they had conquered most principal cities north of the Po River and areas in central and southern Italy • Kingdom was then conquered by Charlemagne and integrated into his empire • Still people still ruled parts until the 1th century when they were conquered by the Normans

  9. Ostrogoth • Establish a kingdom in the late 5th and 6th centuries • Their kingdom mostly declined when Ermanaric committed suicide after the Huns attacked his people and subjugated them around 370 • 80 years after they reappear as federates of the Romans • After fall of Hun empire, they moved to Moesia and later conquered the Italian Kingdom • Justinian declared war on them and were successful but they conquered their lost territory • Remaining Ostrogoth were absorbed by the Lombards

  10. Visigoths • Invaded Italy and sacked Rome in 410, after they settled down in Gaul, Spain, and Portugal were they founded Kingdom of Visigoth • In 418 they settled in Gaul and later move to Suevi and Vandals • Their kingdom in Gual was ended by Franks and only had Hispania left • Around 711 Arabs and Berbes defeated the Visigoths and many of their members killed

  11. vandals • East Germanic tribe • In 429 entered Africa, 439 established a kingdom including Roman African province for Byzantine empire • Lost large parts to the Ostrogoths • Justinian I declared war against them and won • Renaissance and Early modern writers characterize them as barbarians for sacking and looting Rome, which lead to the us of vandalism to describe senseless destruction

More Related