Carolingian Dynasty

(noun)

An empire during the late medieval realm of the Franks, ruled by the Carolingian family, a Frankish noble family to which Charlemagne belonged.

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  • The End of the Carolingians

    • After Charlemagne's death in 814, the Carolingian Dynasty began an extended period of fragmentation and decline that would eventually lead to the evolution of the territories of France and Germany.
    • The Carolingian dynasty began with Charlemagne's grandfather Charles Martel, but began its official reign with Charlemagne's father, Pepin the Short, displacing the Merovingian dynasty.
    • One chronicler dates the end of Carolingian rule with the coronation of Robert II of France as junior co-ruler with his father, Hugh Capet, thus beginning the Capetian dynasty.
    • Thus West Francia of the Carolingian dynasty became France.
    • The Carolingian dynasty became extinct in the male line with the death of Eudes, Count of Vermandois.

  • The Rise of Charlemagne

    • Charlemagne is considered the greatest ruler of the Carolingian Dynasty because of the actions he took to bring Europe out of turmoil.
    • The expanded Frankish state he founded is called the Carolingian Empire.
    • Charlemagne is considered to be the greatest ruler of the Carolingian Dynasty because of the achievements he made during what seemed like the very middle of the Dark Ages.

  • The Emperor Irene

    • As early as 781, Irene began to seek a closer relationship with the Carolingian dynasty and the Papacy in Rome.
    • Irene's unprecedented position as an Empress ruling in her own right was emphasized by the coincidental rise of the Carolingian Empire in Western Europe, which rivaled Irene's Byzantium in size and power.

  • Rise of the Holy Roman Empire

    • The title continued in the Carolingian family until 888, and from 896 to 899, after which it was contested by the rulers of Italy in a series of civil wars until the death of the last Italian claimant, Berengar, in 924.
    • After Charlemagne died in 814, the imperial crown was disputed among the Carolingian rulers of Western Francia and Eastern Francia, with first the western king (Charles the Bald) and then the eastern (Charles the Fat) attaining the prize.
    • After the death of Charles the Fat in 888, however, the Carolingian Empire broke apart, and was never restored.
    • After the Carolingian king Louis the Child died without issue in 911, East Francia did not turn to the Carolingian ruler of West Francia to take over the realm, but instead elected one of the dukes, Conrad of Franconia, as Rex Francorum Orientalium.
    • Henry the Fowler died in 936, but his descendants, the Liudolfing (or Ottonian) dynasty, would continue to rule the eastern kingdom for roughly a century.

  • The Isaurian Dynasty

    • The Isaurian dynasty is characterized by relative political stability, after an important defeat of the Arabs by Leo III, and Iconoclasm, which resulted in considerable internal turmoil.
    • The Byzantine Empire was ruled by the Isaurian or Syrian dynasty from 717 to 802.
    • By the end of the Isaurian dynasty in 802, the Byzantines were continuing to fight the Arabs and the Bulgars for their very existence, with matters made more complicated when Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne Imperator Romanorum ("Emperor of the Romans") which was seen as making the Carolingian Empire the successor to the Roman Empire or at least the western half.
    • A gold coin, or solidus, engraved with the emperors of the Byzantine Isaurian Dynasty, from c. 780 CE.
    • Describe governmental and religious changes that occured during the Isaurian Dynasty

  • The Qing Dynasty

  • Charlemagne's Reforms

    • He was the main initiator and proponent of the "Carolingian Renaissance," the first of three medieval renaissances.
    • Most of the presently surviving works of classical Latin were copied and preserved by Carolingian scholars.
    • Indeed, the earliest manuscripts available for many ancient texts are Carolingian.
    • It is almost certain that a text that survived to the Carolingian age endures still.
    • Lorsch Abbey gatehouse, c. 800, an example of the Carolingian architectural style, a first, albeit isolated classical movement in architecture.

  • Introduction to the Shang Dynasty

    • The Shang Dynasty (also called the Yin Dynasty) succeeded the Xia Dynasty and was followed by the Zhou Dynasty.
    • Jie, the last king of the Xia Dynasty, the first Chinese dynasty, was overthrown c. 1760 BCE by Cheng Tang.
    • While scholars still debate whether the Xia Dynasty actually existed, almost no one doubts that the Shang Dynasty existed.
    • The Shang Dynasty is therefore generally considered China's first historical dynasty.
    • The Shang Dynasty is the oldest Chinese dynasty supported by archaeological finds.

  • The Second Intermediate Period

    • The Second Intermediate Period (c. 1650-1550 BCE) spanned the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Dynasties, and was a period in which decentralized rule split Egypt between the Theban-based Seventeenth Dynasty in Upper Egypt and the Sixteenth Dynasty under the Hyksos in the north.
    • The capital of this dynasty was likely Avaris.
    • They would also conquer the Sixteenth Dynasty in Thebes and a local dynasty in Abydos (see below).
    • The Abydos Dynasty was a short-lived local dynasty that ruled over part of Upper Egypt and was contemporaneous with the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Dynasties c. 1650-1600 BCE.
    • Thebes was the capital of many of the Sixteenth Dynasty pharaohs.

  • The Qing Dynasty and the West