This late attribution of royal Merovingian descent at a time when the Carolingian dynasty was at the peak of its power contrasts clearly with the contemporary Vita Sancti Arnulfi's failure to mention any such a connection: The Vita, written shortly after the saint's death, merely states that he was of Frankish ancestry, from " sufficiently elevated and noble parentage, and very rich in worldly goods ",< ref > Vita Arnulfi c. 1, MG. SS.

The first written reference to Bratislava ( as Brezalauspurc ) appears in 907, in connection with the battle ( s ) of Bratislava ( in the Salzburg Annals ): The Bavarians are totally defeated by the Magyars ; as a result, the Frankish East March ceases and is occupied by the Magyars ( 907 – 955 ).

In 765, the Frankish village had its first documentary mention in the Lorsch codex in connection with a donation by Charlemagne to the Lorsch Abbey, to which in 774 further parts of Oppenheim eventually went.

There is a likely connection with the bees to the traditional Frankish weapon, the angon ( meaning ' sting '), from its distinctive spearhead.

After Duke Eudes's defeat, Aquitaine pledged allegiance formally to the new rising Carolingian dynasty, but still remained out of Frankish central rule until 768 ( Duke Waifer defeated ).

Only the port of Tyre remained in Frankish hands, defended by Conrad of Montferrat, the paternal uncle of Baldwin V, who had coincidentally arrived just in time from Constantinople.

Nonetheless, the Frankish principalities remained a distinctive Occidental colony in the heart of Islam.

On his father's death in 814, he inherited the entire Frankish kingdom and all its possessions ( with the sole exception of Italy, which remained within Louis's empire, but under the direct rule of Bernard, Pepin's son ).

They typically made pledges and promises of tribute to the Carolingians, but effectively remained outside Frankish control.

In his contest with the Eastern Roman Empire and the Lombard dukes of Benevento, Adrian remained faithful to the Frankish alliance.

In 613, Clotaire II reunited the Frankish Kingdom under his rule, and the region remained a part of the Kingdom of Burgundy under the later Merovingians and Carolingians.

) Only after extensive reconnaissance of the Umayyad camp by Frankish soldiers — which by both historical accounts had been so hastily abandoned that even the tents remained, as the Umayyad forces headed back to Iberia with what loot remained that they could carry — was it discovered that the Muslims had retreated during the night.

Alsace remained under Frankish control until the Frankish realm, following the Oaths of Strasbourg of 842, was formally dissolved in 843 at the Treaty of Verdun ; the grandsons of Charlemagne divided the realm into three parts.

First recorded as Durninum ( near / by thorns ) in a deed of gift from the Frankish Lord Herelaef to bishop Willibrord in 721, Deurne remained a collection of subsistence farming hamlets stretching ( North to South ) along the Peel peat moor until the 2nd half of the 19th century, when a newly built railroad ( Eindhoven-Venlo in 1866 ) and a canal ( Zuid-Willemsvaart canal in 1826 ) enabled the commercial exploitation of the moor.

He soon ceded Italy to his eldest son, Louis, and remained in his new kingdom, engaging in alternate quarrels and reconciliations with his brothers and in futile efforts to defend his lands from the attacks of the Northmen ( as Vikings were known in Frankish writings ) and the Saracens.

After the partition of the Frankish empire by the Treaties of Verdun ( 843 ) and of Meerssen ( 870 ), Tournai remained in the western part of the empire, which in 987 became France.

There is archaeological evidence that some enclaves of Visigothic population remained in Frankish Gaul, near the Septimanian border, after 507.

However, Eastern Frisia ( Frisia Ulterior ) remained outside of Frankish suzerainty.

After the rebellion of 826, during which Guillemó and Aissó succeeded in taking it with help from the Emirate of Córdoba, Osona remained depopulated and outside of Frankish control until 879.

The new duchy of Aquitaine, comprising the three districts already mentioned, remained in the hands of Ramulf's successors, in spite of some trouble with their Frankish overlords, until 893 when Count Rainulf II.

He was a master wordsmith and because of his promotion of the church, as well as the Roman tendencies of the Frankish royalty, he remained in favour with most of his acquaintances throughout his lifetime.

Aquitaine ( including the Duchy of Vasconia ) pledged formal allegiance to the Frankish leaders several times ( Odo in 732, Hunald in 736 after being defeated ), but remained actually independent.

To satisfy the Austrasian aristocracy, who exercised a certain autonomy, Sigebert's father gave him the kingdom of Austrasia although it remained part of the larger Frankish realm.

Toulouse became part of Aquitaine — cut from Narbonne and the Mediterranean region where Visigothic rule remained — a diminished capital city within the scarcely integrated Frankish kingdom.

He was installed by the King of Aquitaine, Pepin I, and remained a Frankish vassal.

This empire was destroyed around 800 by Frankish and Bulgars attacks, and above all by internal feuds, however Avar population remained in numbers until the arrival of Árpád's Magyars.

Angilbert delivered the document on Iconoclasm from the Frankish Synod of Frankfurt to Pope Adrian I, and was later sent on three important embassies to the pope, in 792, 794 and 796.

The new Frankish alliance was important because of the Franks ' known hostility to the Byzantine empire, providing the Lombards with more than one option.

This was of great relevance to Gregory himself as he presided over the important see of Tours, where extensive use was made of the cult of St Martin in establishing the authority of the bishopric with the congregation and in the context of the Frankish church.

In 1567 Venetians built the new fortifications of Nicosia, which are well-preserved until today, demolishing the old walls built by the Franks as well as other important buildings of the Frankish era including the King's Palace, other private palaces and churches and monasteries of both Orthodox and Latin Christians.

It was the name of several important figures in the Carolingian family that ruled the Frankish Empire in what is now France and the western parts of Germany in the Middle Ages:

Part of the Frankish territory of Neustria, the Soissons region, and the Abbey of Saint-Médard, built in the 8th century, played an important political part during the rule of the Merovingian kings ( A. D. 447-751 ).

In the 9th century they were incorporated into the Frankish Empire, and they were Christianized by missionaries from Aquileia, then one of the most important centers of the Roman Catholic Church in Northern Italy.

It was also an important Lombard city and then a Frankish centre.

Arnulf was born to an important Frankish family at an uncertain date around 582.

Not satisfied with his position as a bishop, he was involved in the 624 murder of Chrodoald, an important leader of the Frankish Agilolfings family and a protégé of Dagobert.

Childeric is chiefly important to history for bequeathing the Franks to his son Clovis, who began an effort to extend his authority over the other Frankish tribes and to expand their territorium south and west into Gaul.

This resulted in the establishment of a common border between the Frankish Empire and Bulgaria, which would have important repercussions for the policy of Krum's successors.

Undoubtedly the most important of these was the Reichstag of 919 when Henry I (" Henry the Fowler "), duke of Saxony, was elected King of the Germans to succeed Charlemagne's Frankish successors on the throne of what had become known as the East Frankish Empire.

The battle itself took place in the evening of Saturday 15 August 778, causing numerous losses among the Frankish troops, including several most important aristocrats and the sack of the baggage, probably with all the gold given by the Muslims at Zaragoza.

In the year 824 was the possibly more important Second Battle of Roncevaux, where counts Eblus and Aznar, Frankish vassals, were captured by the joint forces of Iñigo Arista's Pamplona and of the Banu Qasi, consolidating the independence of both Basque realms.

In much of this empire an important unit of regional administration, corresponding roughly to a shire or county in England, was the gau ( Frankish ), or pagus ( Latin ).

The work of Sulpicius Alexander as extracts in Gregory's Decem Libri Historiarum ( II 9 ) is considered an important source in any discussion of the origin of the Frankish tribes.

War ensued, and eventually the Visigothic king Alaric II was defeated by the Frankish king Clovis at the Battle of Vouillé in 507, a battle important in the psyche of modern-day France ( etymologically land of the Franks ), where Franks are perceived as " French " and Visigoths have become " foreigners ".

The latter was especially important during the reign of the last Lombard king, Desiderius, and continued to churn out coins when northern Italy was annexed to the Frankish Empire.

In 1567 Venetians built the new fortifications of Nicosia, which are well-preserved until today, demolishing the old walls built by the Franks as well as other important buildings of the Frankish era including the King's Palace, other private palaces and churches and monasteries of both Orthodox and Latin Christians.

Excavations have unearthed extensive fortifications from the 7th and 8th century AD on the hilltop, which is called Büraberg ,( Berg = hill ) remnants of a major settlement at this important site located where Frankish and Saxon territories then bordered each other.

The Frankish king Pippin der Kleine ( Pippin the Short ) often visited Düren in the 8th century and held a few important conventions.

Low Franconian settlers only came in the 12th century and 13th century when Flemish settlers ( Frankish speaking ) played an important part in draining the swamplands between the coast of Holland and Utrecht.