"Carolingian" redirects here. For other uses, see Carolingian (disambiguation).
Carolingian dynasty
Carlovingians
Autograph of Charlemagne
Parent house
Pippinids
Country
Carolingian Empire
Austrasia
Neustria
Burgundy
Alamannia
Italy
Aquitaine
Bavaria
Bohemia
Saxony
Brittany
Thuringia
West Francia Middle Francia East Francia
Founded
613 (as mayors) 751 (as kings) 800 (as emperors)
Founder
Pepin the Elder (as mayor) Pepin the Short (as king) Charlemagne (emperor)
Final ruler
Arnulf of Carinthia (emperor) Louis V of France (king) Adelaide of Vermandois
Titles
List
Holy Roman Emperor
King of the Franks
King of the Lombards
King of Italy
King of Aquitaine
King of Burgundy
Duke of Bohemia
Duke of Bavaria
Duke of Maine
Count of Vermandois
Count of Valois
King of East Francia
King of Middle Francia
King of West Francia
Dissolution
1120 (death of Adelaide)
Deposition
987 (death of Louis V)
Cadet branches
Lombard branch (extinct)
Lotharingian branch (extinct)
Aquitainian branch (extinct)
German branch (extinct)
French branch (extinct)
Capetian dynasty (extinct)
Carolingian dynasty
Pippinids
Pippin the Elder (c. 580–640)
Grimoald (616–656)
Childebert the Adopted (d. 662)
Arnulfings
Arnulf of Metz (582–640)
Ansegisel (d. 662 or 679)
Chlodulf of Metz (d. 696 or 697)
Pepin of Herstal (635–714)
Grimoald II (d. 714)
Drogo of Champagne (670–708)
Theudoald (d. 741)
Carolingians
Charles Martel (686–741)
Carloman (d. 754)
Pepin the Short (714–768)
Carloman I (751–771)
Charlemagne (742–814)
Pepin the Hunchback (768–811)
Charles the Younger (772–811)
Pepin of Italy (773–810)
Louis the Pious (778–840)
Pepin I of Aquitaine (797–838)
After the Treaty of Verdun (843)
Lothair I, Holy Roman Emperor (795–855; Middle Francia)
Charles the Bald (823–877) (West Francia)
Louis the German (804–876) (East Francia)
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The Carolingian dynasty (/ˌkærəˈlɪndʒiən/KARR-ə-LIN-jee-ən;[1] known variously as the Carlovingians, Carolingus, Carolings, Karolinger or Karlings) was a Frankish noble family named after Charles Martel and his grandson Charlemagne, descendants of the Arnulfing and Pippinid clans of the 7th century AD.[2] The dynasty consolidated its power in the 8th century, eventually making the offices of mayor of the palace and dux et princeps Francorum hereditary, and becoming the de facto rulers of the Franks as the real powers behind the Merovingian throne. In 751 the Merovingian dynasty which had ruled the Franks was overthrown with the consent of the Papacy and the aristocracy, and Pepin the Short, son of Martel, was crowned King of the Franks. The Carolingian dynasty reached its peak in 800 with the crowning of Charlemagne as the first Emperor of the Romans in the West in over three centuries. Nearly every monarch of France from Charlemagne's son Louis the Pious till the penultimate monarch of France Louis Philippe have been his descendants. His death in 814 began an extended period of fragmentation of the Carolingian Empire and decline that would eventually lead to the evolution of the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire.
^"Carolingian". Collins English Dictionary (13th ed.). HarperCollins. 2018. ISBN 978-0-008-28437-4.
^Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Carolingians" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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