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Franks is also a member of the Republican Study Committee, the International Religious Freedom Caucus, the Tea Party Caucus, House Working Group on Judicial Accountability, House Working Group on Waste, Fraud and Abuse, the Liberty Caucus, the DUI Caucus, the Human Rights Caucus, the India Caucus, the Refugee Caucus, the Education Freedom Caucus, and is an associate member of the Congressional Hispanic Conference.
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Agathias expresses his hope that the Alemanni would assume better manners through prolonged contact with the Franks, which is by all appearances, in a manner of speaking, what eventually happened.
No larger settlements, however, have been found to have existed in this remote rural area, located at least 15 km from the nearest road even in Roman times, up to the early medieval period when the place is mentioned as a king's mansion for the first time, not long before Charlemagne became ruler of the Germanic Franks.
His chief work is a Historia Francorum, or Libri v de Gestis Francorum, which deals with the history of the Franks from the earliest times to 653, and was continued by other writers until the middle of the twelfth century.
The earliest documented event in Alaric's reign concerned providing refuge to Syagrius, the former ruler of the Domain of Soissons ( in what is now north western France ) who had been defeated by Clovis I King of the Franks.
The arrangement of crowning a successor as royal prince and military commander is well known among other Germanic tribes, such as the Swedes and Franks, to whom the Anglo-Saxons were closely related.
Blythe House in West Kensington is used by the Museum for off-site storage of small and medium-sized artefacts, and Franks House in East London is used for storage and work on the " Early Prehistory "-Palaeolithic and Mesolithic-and some other collections.
In addition to these, there is a history of the Franks written in the late sixth century by Gregory of Tours which mentions events in Kent.
A possible reason for the willingness of the Franks to connect themselves with the Kentish court is the fact that a Frankish king, Chilperic I, is recorded as having conquered a people known as the Euthiones during the mid-sixth century.
Regardless of the political relationship between Æthelberht and the Franks, there is abundant evidence of strong connections across the English Channel.
Other cultural influences may be seen in the burials as well, so it is not necessary to presume that there was direct settlement by the Franks in Kent.
Franconia is named after the Franks, a Germanic tribe who conquered most of Western Europe by the middle of the 8th century.
Though one might assume that Franconia was the homeland of the Franks ( indeed in German, Franken is used for both modern day Franconians and the historic Franks ), this is not the case.
The advance into Western Europe was only stopped in what is now north-central France by the West Germanic Franks under Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours in 732.
The story is told from the point of view of a Lombard and is especially valuable for the relations between the Franks and the Lombards.
For Carloman, king of the Franks, is the friend of Christophorus and Sergius, and will be wishful to come to Rome and seize you .”
After Carloman's resignation in 747 he maintained a sometimes turbulent relationship with the king of the Franks, Pepin ; the claim that he would have crowned Pepin at Soissons in 751 is now generally discredited.
During the Crusades, the " Franks " ( Catholic Western Europeans ) settled it, while in the 13th century AD, the Venetians annexed the isle to the Duchy of Naxos and renamed it " Santorini ", that is " Saint Irene ".
Tommy Ray Franks ( born June 17, 1945 ) is a retired general in the United States Army.
Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the US in the wake of the 11 September 2001 attacks, Franks said that “ the worst thing that could happen ” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.
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He also spoke of the particular ruthlessness of the Alamani in destroying Christian sanctuaries and plundering churches while the genuine Franks were respectful towards those sanctuaries.
It may also be based on Alfred's later having accompanied his father on a pilgrimage to Rome where he spent some time at the court of Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, around 854 – 855.
Charles Martel () ( 23 August 686 – 22 October 741 ), also known as Charles the Hammer, was a Frankish military and political leader, who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum ( 737 – 43 ) at the end of his life, using the title Duke and Prince of the Franks.
The three Archbishops oversaw the most venerable and powerful sees in Germany, while the other four were supposed to represent the dukes of the four nations ( the Franks, Swabians, Saxons and Bavarians ); they also hold great offices in the imperial household.
He was also King of the Franks and co-Emperor ( as Louis I ) with his father, Charlemagne, from 813.
He also defeated the Franks.
Indeed, the official Latin title of the kings of France was Rex Francorum, i. e. " king of the Franks " ( until Louis ' grand-father's reign, Philip II whose seal reads Rex Franciae, i. e. " king of France "), and the kings of France were also known by the title " most Christian king " ( Rex Christianissimus ).
After the fall of the Ostrogoths, the Franks also conquered Provence.
Charles Franks also founded Distributed Proofreaders ( DP ) in 2000, which allowed the proofreading of scanned texts to be distributed among many volunteers over the Internet.
They also renewed the pact between the Popes and the kings of the Franks, confirming the privileges of the Roman church, and the continued existence of the recently emerged Papal States.
The authors also suggest that Franks was worn down by repeated pressure from U. S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to reduce the number of U. S. troops in war plans and cancel the deployment of the 1st Cavalry Division, a scheduled follow-on unit that was slated for deployment in April 2003.
* Pope Stephen II crowns Pepin the short King of the Franks at Saint-Denis outside Paris ; also dedicates the foundations of the new abbey church.
The Franks also formed a common identity with their fellow Roman subjects.
The Franks claimed to be descendents of the Trojans, and the Romans also claimed descent, this claim to Trojan descent by the Franks helped form a common identity of a shared religion and a genealogical connection with their Roman neighbors.
From the end of the 3rd century, Heruls are also mentioned as raiders in Gaul and Spain, together with Saxons, Franks and Alamanni.
' Romans ' are also cited as living in the cities of Aquitaine, as opposed to the Franks.
Afterwards it was again invaded by the Avars in the 560s, the Slavs, who first settled c. 480s but became independent only since the 7th century, the Franks, who named a frontier march the March of Pannonia in the end of the 8th century, while terms Lower and Upper Pannonia were also used in the 9th century as a designations for a Slavic principality and a Frankish province.
Ultimately, many of them settled there permanently, in a land that became known as Normandy ( deriving from the expression " Nordmenn ", or ' Northmen ' (' Norsemen '), which was-and indeed still is-both the name the Norwegians called themselves and also the name the Franks used for the Scandinavians ).
His most notable work was his Decem Libri Historiarum or Ten Books of Histories, better known as the Historia Francorum (" History of the Franks "), a title given to it by later chroniclers, but he is also known for his credulous accounts of the miracles of saints, especially four books of the miracles of Martin of Tours.
Two major military battles occurred near the city: in 732, the Battle of Poitiers ( also known as the Battle of Tours ), in which the Franks commanded by Charles Martel halted the expansion of the Umayyad Caliphate, and in 1356, the Battle of Poitiers, a key victory for English forces during the Hundred Years ' War.
The Franks employed dukes as the governors of Roman provinces, though they also led military expeditions far from their duchies.
He was also the first mayor of the palace to " reign " as Duke and Prince of the Franks and he by far overshadowed the Merovingian rois fainéants.
He also enjoyed initial success against the Franks and the Burgundians, as well as putting down a revolt by the Bagaudae by 437.
In the 6th century Chur was also conquered by the Franks.
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