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CHAPTER 13
Rise of the Franks
 Disorder and change after the breakup of
Western Roman Empire.
 Barbarian invasions and settlement/ new
customs, and lifestyles to many parts of
western Europe.
 400’s-1500s’ as a transition in the development of
Western culture.
 Called the Middle Ages or the Medieval period.
 END OF THE CLASSICAL AGE AND THE START OF
THE MODERN WORLD!
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 Small kingdoms established
 One Germanic tribes had a lasting impact, Franks,
they shaped the new culture of post-Roman
Europe.
 They began to move into the Rhine River valley
their ruler was named Clovis, became king of one
of the Frankish tribes.
 Clovis and his successors were called
Merovingian's, traced his families name back to a
ancestor named Merovech.
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 Clovis conquered other Frankish tribes.
Controlled all of northern Gaul.
 Clovis was a Christian and received support of the
Christian Church.
 Franks began to control southwestern Gaul
(present day France)
 France is named after the Franks…
 Clovis died, his son divided the kingdom ( was a
Frankish custom)
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 After Clovis past away many of the next rulers
were weak…
 The chief of the royal household, known as the
mayor of the palace,” became the real ruler of
each kingdom.
 Pepin II ruled from 687-714.
 Pepin and his successors united the Frankish
kingdoms.
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 Pepin II died his son, Charles Martel (Charles
the hammer, became mayor of the palace.)
 732 his Calvary defeated the Spanish moors.
 Son Pepin III (Pepin the short became the
Merovingian kingdom’s joint mayor of the palace
with his brother, Carloman. )
 Pepin overthrows the thrown and becomes king.
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 Pepin was anointed king of the Franks.
 Pepin III’s coronation established the Carolingians
 Carolingians- new line of Frankish rulers.
 Pope confirmation of Pepin’s rule, strengthened the
legitimacy of the new Carolingian dynasty.
 European Christians believed that the pope’s blessing
came directly form God.
 Pope helped Pepin against the Lombards, a Germanic
tribe that was attacking central Italy and threatening
Rome.
 Pepin defeated the Lombard's and got the land
surrounding Rome and gave it to the Pope.
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 The land that was given was called the
Donation of Pepin, this created the Papal
States.
 With the alliance that was formed this paved
the way for the rise of Charlemagne.
(greatest of all Frankish kings)
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 Charlemagne’s Empire:
 768-814 46 years of rule.
 Charlemagne was declared the Emperor of the
Romans
 Charlemagne established schools that were based
on Roman schools.
 The Holy Roman Emperor eventually became a
figurehead.
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 Charlemagne’s death:
 Louis the Pious was his only surviving son.
 After his son died the kingdom was divided among
Charles the Bald, and Lou9is the German.
 This was called the treaty of Verdun.
Feudalism
 The system:
 A lord granted land, the land that was granted
was called a fief.
 The person who received the fief was called a
vassal.
 Passed down from father to eldest sonprimogeniture.
 Manorial system: economic structure, Manors,
were large farming estates that included manor
houses, cultivated lands, woodlands, pastures,
fields and villages.
Feudalism
 Knights: took a code of conduct known as
chivalry, rules that dictated knights behavior
towards others.
 Knights had to come from the noble class and
had to pass through two stages of training.
 Age of seven a boy would serve as a knight’s page or
attendant.
 Teenager boy would become a knights assistant,
called a squire.
 Then become a knight once he proved himself to be a
skilled and courageous fighter.
The Church
 Monasticism: refers to the way of life in convents
and monasteries.
 Two types of clergy, Priests, bishops and the pos were
secular clergy.
 Second group was called the regular clergy, Monks,
nuns.
 Benedict: was a hermit. Saint Benedict created rules
to govern monks’ lives. \
 Saint Augustine: led a group of monks to England and
eventually all of England accepted Christianity.
Augustine became the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Center of the Christian church in England.