Carolingian Dynasty Kings

1. Pepin the Short

-became the first Carolingian king of the Franks in 751
The first Carolingian King of the Franks was Pepin the Short. He became the King of the
Franks from 751 until his death in 768. Pepin the Short is the son of Charles Martel, the
founder of Carolingian dynasty. He stifled a revolt drove by his relative Grifo and prevailing
with regards to turning into the undisputed expert, all things considered. Surrendering
affectation, Pepin at that point constrained Childeric into a religious community and had
himself announced King of the Franks with help of Pope Zachary in 751. After his death in
768, both of his sons, Carloman I and Charlemange inherited the throne together.

2. Charlemagne ( Charles the Great )

-the founder of Carolingian Empire
-born in the 740s 
-became king of the Franks in 768 upon the death of his father
-In 800 Charlemagne was crowned 'emperor of the Romans' by Pope Leo III in Rome
-In 813 Charlemagne crowned his only surviving son as co-emperor
-In January of 814, he died in Aachen, where he was buried in the cathedral

3. Louis the Pious (Louis l)

- also called the Fair, and the Debonaire
- was the King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813.
- he became the sole ruler of the Franks after his father's death in 814 (28 January)
- The significant accomplishments of Louis' rule fixated on his program of Church
change and in the development of the Carolingian scholarly recovery started an age
before.
- during his mission against Louis the German, with whom he was never
accommodated, Louis l was surpassed by disease and kicked the bucket in Germany
at Ingelheim on June 20, 840.
-His three sons (Charles the Bald, Louis the German, and Lothair I) were already
fighting about the inheritance of the Carolingian Empire before Louis died and
divided the empire into three parts in 843.
4. Lothair
- born in 795
- The main resistance started in 830. Each of the three siblings battled their dad,
whom they ousted. In 831, Louis l was reinstated and he denied Lothair of his
imperial title and offered Italy to Charles.
- through the loyalty of the Lombards and later reconciliations, he retained Italy and
the imperial position through all remaining divisions of the Empire by his father after
during the second rebellion in 834.
- When Louis the Pious was dying in 840, he sent the imperial insignia to Lothair,
who, disregarding the various partitions, claimed the whole of the Empire
- died in 855 (29 sept) because of serious illness.
- relinquished the throne, dividing his land among his three sons

5. Charles III
- the youngest son of Louis the German 
- the last Carolingian emperor of legitimate birth and the last to rule over all the realms of
the Franks.
- Crowned emperor in 881 by Pope John VIII
- his progression to the domains of his sibling Louis the Younger (Saxony and Bavaria)
the next year reunited the realm of East Francia
- Upon the demise of his cousin Carloman II in 884, he acquired all of West Francia, in
this way reuniting the whole Carolingian Empire.
- The reunited empire did not last.
- During an upset drove by his nephew Arnulf of Carinthia in November 887, Charles was
dismissed in East Francia, Lotharingia, and Kingdom of Italy
- Constrained into calm retirement, he died of common causes in January 888, only a
couple a long time after his deposition
- The Empire immediately self-destructed after his demise, fragmenting into five separate
replacement realms. (The region it had involved was not completely reunited under one
ruler until the victories of Napoleon.) (bonus)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_dynasty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Frankish_kings