Franks

Question 1

What 2 factors mark the Franks out, compared to the other post-Romanic kingdoms?

Answer 1

1. Least Roman of all

2. Were not refugees, probably natives

Question 2

Who was the first king of France, and when did he rule?

Answer 2

Clovis, 509-511

Question 3

Where was Clovis’ capital?

Answer 3

Tournai, Belgium

Question 4

Who was Clovis’ father?

Answer 4

Childeric

Question 5

When was Clovis baptised?

Answer 5

496

Question 6

Which Germanic kingdom did Clovis conquer?

Answer 6

Thuringia

Question 7

Which Merovingian king ruled 629-639?

Answer 7

Dagobert I

Question 8

Where did Dagobert I conquer?

Answer 8

Frisia

Question 9

Which 3 groups did Dagobert I have contact with?

Answer 9

1. Germanic Saxons
2. Anglo Saxons
3. Slavs

Question 10

Which group did Dagobert fail to conquer? What happened instead

Answer 10

Saxons; he forced them into submission

Question 11

Describe the extent of Frankish territory at the end of Merovingian rule

Answer 11

France, Belgium, Holland, Germany to Bohemia, Switzerland

Question 12

Where was Austrasia?

Answer 12

East Frankia, up to the Mosel

Question 13

Where was Neustria?

Answer 13

West Frankia, up to the Mosel

Question 14

Where was Merovingian Burgundy?

Answer 14

Central and Southern Frankia

Question 15

What position did the Pepinid dynasty traditionally hold?

Answer 15

Maiordomus

Question 16

Explain the etymology of Charles

Answer 16

Germanic; linked to jarl, ceorl, earl

Question 17

Whom did the Pope call “regulus”? What does that term mean?

Answer 17

Charles Martel, little king

Question 18

Who fought the Umayyads at Tours, and in which year?

Answer 18

Charles Martel, 732

Question 19

Who crowned Pepin the Short? What was special about this?

Answer 19

Pope Stephen; first papal trip north of the Alps

Question 20

How did Pepin the Short come to power?

Answer 20

Peacefully, with popular support and papal approval

Question 21

When did Charlemagne rule?

Answer 21

768-814

Question 22

Where was Charlemagne’s capital?

Answer 22

Aachen

Question 23

Who crowned Charlemagne? When and where?

Answer 23

Pope Leo II, Rome, Christmas day 800

Question 24

Who did Charlemagne’s Papal alliance help?

Answer 24

Both parties:
Pope needed military backing
Charlemagne needed prestige

Question 25

Which ancestor of Charlemagne had previously tried to seize power, and when?

Answer 25

Grimoald, late 600s

Question 26

What relationship with education did Charlemagne have? 3 things

Answer 26

1. Tried to read and write 2. Revived latin 3. Monks copied classical texts

Question 27

Which three Roman authors survive thanks to Charlemagne?

Answer 27

Tacitus, Livy, Cicero

Question 28

Where was learning centred?

Answer 28

Monasteries

Question 29

What three forms of prestige did Charlemagne take advantage of?

Answer 29

Military, religious and Roman

Question 30

Which five areas/peoples did Charlemage conquer?

Answer 30

1. Lombards 2. Avars 3. Bavarians 4. Saxons 5. Barcelona

Question 31

How did Charlemagne intend to split his realm?

Answer 31

1. North to Charles 2. Lombardy & Bavaria to Pepin 3. Aquitaine to Louis

Question 32

What three consequences of hereditary rule appeared?

Answer 32

1. more castles 2. start of siege warfare 3. less royal power

Question 33

Which 3 raiders took advantage of internal problems?

Answer 33

1. Vikings 2. Hungarians 3. North Africans

Question 34

What 2 internal problems caused crisis in late Frankia?

Answer 34

Size & diversity

Question 35

Who succeeded Charlemagne, and when did he rule?

Answer 35

Louis the Pious, 814-840

Question 36

What hampered Louis the Pious' succession?

Answer 36

He had sons from two wives

Question 37

When was the Treaty of Verdun signed?

Answer 37

843

Question 38

What did the Treaty of Verdun dictate?

Answer 38

Splitting of the kingdom: 1. Charles the Bald gains the West 2. Louis the German gains the East 3. Lothair gains the middle

Question 39

When did the Carolingian dynasty come to an end?

Answer 39

987

Question 40

Which dynasty succeeded the Carolingian dynasty?

Answer 40

Capetians

Question 41

Why was Lotharingia a failure?

Answer 41

No natural or historical basis