Examples of Franks in the following topics:
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- Moreover, Charles—a great patron of Saint Boniface—made the first attempt at reconciliation between the Franks and the papacy.
- In 743, they ended the Frankish interregnum by choosing Childeric III, who was to be the last Merovingian monarch, as figurehead king of the Franks.
- After Carloman, who was an intensely pious man, retired to religious life in 747, Pepin became the sole ruler of the Franks.
- Giving up pretense, Pepin then forced Childeric into a monastery and had himself proclaimed king of the Franks with the support of Pope Zachary in 751.
- He reformed the legislation of the Franks and continued the ecclesiastical reforms of Boniface.
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- He allied with the Franks by his marriage to Audofleda, sister of Clovis I, and married his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Visigoths, Vandals, and Burgundians.
- For much of his reign, Theoderic was the de facto king of the Visigoths as well, becoming regent for the infant Visigothic king, his grandson Amalaric, following the defeat of Alaric II by the Franks under Clovis in 507.
- The Franks were able to wrest control of Aquitaine from the Visigoths, but otherwise Theoderic was able to defeat their incursions.
- The rest was ruled by Sigismund's Arian brother Godomar, under Gothic protection against the Franks who had captured Sigismund.
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- After Charlemagne, the king of the Franks, saved Rome from a Lombard attack, Pope Leo III (not to be confused with the Byzantine Leo III) declared him the new Roman Emperor in 800 CE since a woman (Irene) could not be emperor.
- It was also a message that the popes were now loyal to the Franks, who could protect them, instead of the Byzantines, who had only caused trouble.
- With two Roman Empires, the Byzantines and the Franks, the authority of the Byzantine Empire was weakened.
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- Constantine pursued successful campaigns against the tribes on the Roman frontiers—the Franks, the Alamanni, the Goths, and the Sarmatians—even resettling territories abandoned by his predecessors during the turmoil of the previous century.
- While the Western Empire was overrun by Germanic barbarians—its lands in Italy were conquered by the Ostrogoths, Spain was conquered by the Visigoths, North Africa was conquered by the Vandals, and Gaul was conquered by the Franks—the Eastern Empire thrived.
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- German kings had been elected since the 9th century; at that point they were chosen by the leaders of the five most important tribes (the Salian Franks of Lorraine, Ripuarian Franks of Franconia, Saxons, Bavarians and Swabians).
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- During this time Charlemagne was at war with the Saxons, and would later become the new king of the Franks.
- While this greatly improved relations with the Papacy, it did not prevent the outbreak of a war with the Franks, who took over Istria and Benevento in 788.
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- Constantine and his Franks marched under the standard of the labarum Chi-Rho, and both sides saw the battle in religious terms.
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- The 496 conversion of Clovis I, pagan king of the Franks, saw the beginning of a steady rise of the Catholic faith in the West.
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- Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great or Charles I, was the king of the Franks from 768 and the king of Italy from 774, and from 800 was the first emperor in western Europe since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier.
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- This process of centralization began with Charlemagne (768-814) King of the Franks and later (800-814), Holy Roman Emperor.