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i know they're the highest
Charlemage ( Charles the great)and was the son of Pepin the short. Charlemage was one of the sons of the first cristain king. clovis king of the franks.
Charles Martel, meaning Charles the Hammer, was mayor of the palace (or chancellor) of Austrasia, which was the eastern part of the Frankish kingdom.He restored a united Frankish kingdom and established a power base on which the Carolingian empire was founded. In 732 he defeated the invading Muslims at Poitiers and stopped further Muslim expansion into Europe.His son and grandson later become kings...
Under Frankish law, a kingdom did not pass to a single heir, but was distributed among the heirs. Under the Carolingian Empire, this was modified only to the point of having the empire go to a single heir, but there were numerous kingdoms controlled by different kings. The various kings quarrelled, and the overall emperor was only able to get support from his own kingdom, not from the empire as a whole, so the empire passed to a powerless state. Later, it was revived, but France remained separate from it; in this revived form, it was called the Holy Roman Empire.
they were called the do-nothing-kings
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The Carolingian Dynasty included many of the early Frankish kings. The chief of which was Charlemagne and his father Charles Martel.
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The Books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings are all believed to have been written by an anonymous author now known as the Deuteronomist, during the seventh-century-BCE reign of King Josiah.
The reign of Clovis I, founder of the Merovingian dynasty of Frankish kings, ended with his death in 511 AD.
That depends on what you're asking, if you are just asking about the papacy, itself, it is the oldest surviving office in the world. The English kings trace their start back to the ninth century, the Japanese sovereign claims descent from the third century (although Japan claims that its monarchy goes back to the seventh century B.C.) Which would put the Papacy as the oldest, back to the first century.
That depends on what you're asking, if you are just asking about the papacy, itself, it is the oldest surviving office in the world. The English kings trace their start back to the ninth century, the Japanese sovereign claims descent from the third century (although Japan claims that its monarchy goes back to the seventh century B.C.) Which would put the Papacy as the oldest, back to the first century.
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In the seventh century, the Iberian peninsula was ruled by kings from Germanic tribes such as the Vandals and Visigoths. The Umayyad Caliphate ruled Spain beginning in 711.