HIST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mayor Of The Palace, Merovingian Dynasty, Childeric Iii
24 Jan 2019
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Conference sections open this wednesday morning ~8am. After filling out conference sheet at conference, can score up to 3 points per conference by uploading individual notes to mycourses. Karolus magnus, charles the great ; lifespan 742 - 814; king of the franks , 748; Inherently post-charlemagne bias to think that the byzantine empire is not the real. An idea of european unity (based on christendom and revived empire in west : a new model of catholic kingship, revival of the roman empire in the west. His power requires a lot of improvisation and his family (the carolingians) to assert their legitimacy. Their family are usurpers and they have to fabricate legitimacy which they don"t really have. Germanic tribe who move into the north of gaul. One of the frankish kings, clovis i converts to christianity in 496. Merovingian dynasty from clovis to 751 (they become like puppet kings)
