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Here we say : "The history of France, it's Game of Thrones to the power 1000".... ;)
Yes, the West Frankish Kingdom became France, the East Frankish Kingdom became Germany... and the Middle Frankish Kingdom, lead by Lothaire, became Italy in the south but a bastard region in north that both kingdom (East and West) will fight during centuries to run it.
The region between the two kingdom, lead by Lothaire first, called Lotharingie, will become the "Lorraine", a region in the actual north-east France.
A region become french in the sixteen century... then german... then french again in the eightenn century... then german in 1871... then french in 1919... then german in 1940... then back to France in 1944...
More than a thousand years after the split of the Charlemagne's kingdom, French and Germans always fighting for this land.
Here the tragical irony of history : thinking if Charlemagne had two grandchildren, and not three, perhaps there would have been millions less dead...
Glad to see you performed to lose Sergeant Chesterfield.
"The history of France, it's Game of Thrones to the power 1000" - that applies to literally any feudal society
Fun fact: there are no kangaroos in Liechtenstein, they live only in neighbouring country Australia.
Charle Martel = Charles the Hammer, grandfather of the emperor Charlemagne
Charlemagne = Carolus Magnus (Charles the Great), emperor of the Franks
In France, we had only 3 emperors : Charlemagne (early IXth), Napoléon Ier (early XIXth) and Napoléon III (XIXth).
No, Louis le Pieux (the first Louis) and Charles the Bald (Charles II, as Charlemagne is Charles I) were also emperors.
The city of Frankfurt is named after the Franks.
There was a flat spot in the river where the river could be crossed.
A ford = furt. Therefore Frankfurt.
The word “frank” means “brave and free” in German.
The state of France also gets its name from this.
the word "frankly" means "say it honestly"
"The word “frank” means “brave and free” in German." Interestingly, "Franc" means "honest/spontaneous" in French. It's written the same way as the historical franks ("francs").
German are not Germanic people
@@kinsou3865Are they chinese ???
So, Charles Martel didn't become Charlemagne. Different times. Charlemagne was the grandson of Charles Martel.
Austrasia and Austria may sound similar, but there's no direct historical connection between the two names. 'Austria' is derived from German 'Österreich' meaning 'Eastern Realm'. But in the early middle ages it wasn't independent and was called "Ostmark" because it was the eastern borderland of Bavaria.
There is no direct relation, but there plenty of indirect ones. Like for exemple the name, it may have meant and have a similar origin and meaning as Austria. All that besides many other indirect relations but those can also be argued between any of the western countries of europe.
@@estranhokonsta yeah, perhaps this 'Austrasia' originally referred to the lands east of the Rhine only, but later was applied to the whole kingdom, idk. Geographic names were sometimes reused anyway, like there was an Iberia and Albania in the Caucasus too.
@@rovanderby759 I think i still remember the first time i saw that iberia label right in a totally unexpected place in a map. I can only say that i was really surprised. To say the least.
In the early second half of the sixth century, three frankish kingdoms emerged: Austrasia (in the east) , Burgundy (in the central south) and Neustria (in the west).
It meight be of interest that the prefix Neu does not mean western, but new.
Neu remained, till this day, the word for new, in modern German.
What helped the division between France and " Germany" was the fact that the West Franks and the Middle Franks adopted a Latin based language while the East Franks stayed with a Germanic one.
And I can tell you there are easier things than teaching our complicated history to our children even in the shortest possible version.😁
Greetings from a history teacher.
Modern day France and Germany indeed descend from the 843 partition of the Frankish Empire. Note that Charlemagne is considered to be their ancestral monarch by both the French and the German.
Just t9 clarify to those who might misunderstand: Of course, this language divide was not a deliberate choice. It was a gradual shift.
The Middle Franks did not adopt a Latin based language. Many did, but many didn’t. The ones in the low countries (except what now is Wallonia), the Elsaß/Alsace and part of Lothringen/Lorraine didn’t. Roughly speaking the north of Middle Francia remained Germanic speaking, the south already were or became speakers of Latin based languages.
Being from and born in the north-east of Lorraine (départment of Moselle - France), my mother language is the "Fränkisch" ("Francique" in French), a german dialect commonly called "Lothringer Platt, probably very close to the language spoken by the Franks at the time of Charlemagne.
If you consider the French department of Moselle, draw a line Thionville - Sarrebourg. North of that line, region of German-speaking origin, south of this line, French speaking region. Alittle river, the Nied, marks the linguistic limite.
@@thierrylofoten4470 Ah, part of Lothringen/Lorraine remained Germanic speaking too. I’ll edit my previous comment to include that.
After wanting to for a few years, last Monday I went to Guédelon. Its fantastic. They are a lot further along now than in this video.
What is interesting about the modern bits and bobs tou find here and there is that Guédelon is a construction site and had to adhere to modern health and safety rules. So you'll see the crew in medieval clothing but wearing modern worker boots. It cant be helped, but I must say they blended it in as subtly as they could. Its wonderful and worth a visit and as they say: don't wait until it's finished, it'll be too late!
What I love with France history is that you have everything you need to make a good novel or a good serie. You have epic battles, conspiracies, alliances, unsolved mysteries, great leaders, powerful generals, unexpected victories, proud knights, powerful kings, smart corsairs, women heroines, big castles, rebelions, beautiful landscapes as in fantasy movies...
Everyone who wants to create a fantasy serie or a SF saga really should read France History first. To think a small tribe of Germany created an empire most powerful than Rome. To think these soldiers walked all around the continents, in the desert, in the mountains, in the jungle, from Canada to Indochina.
I'm Proud of the country that adopted me.
Vive la France !
A very long and big series. The history of Philippe IV le Bel and his 3 sons (which led to the Hundred Years War) was already enough to inspire a series of novels named "Les Rois Maudits" by Maurice Druon. A TV adaptation was made in 2005 with Tchéky Karyo as Philippe le Bel and Gérard Depardieu as the Grand Master of the Templars Order. Certainly worth a watch if you can find it.
And yes, vive la France.
West Frankish Kingdom -> Medieval France -> modern France
East Frankish Kingdom -> Medieval Germany -> Holy Roman Empire (HRE) -> modern Germany/Austria/Switzerland
Middle Frankish Kingdom -> Medieval Italy, Low Countries (later modern BeNeLux), split between the other two kingdoms (lion's share to HRE)
17:51 yea hum, all due respect, Charlemagne's mother came from the city of Liège, which spoke a dialect of oil vulgar at the time (the oil vulgar dialect around paris is what gave us modern french).
If Charlemagne's mother spoke oil vulgar (just like many parts of his empire) Im sure he was able to speak his MOTHER tongue. Im sure he and his court spoke some version of high german, he was also able to speak oil vulgar.
Fun fact : today there are schools and institutes in belgium bearing the name Charlemagne, just like there are Goethe institutes in germany.
Reims is the capital of Champagne (the drink), in France
it's not, the historic capital city of Champagne is Troyes, the city of the Counts of Champagne and nowadays there is no capital city anymore
I'll be back..
The only reason the Franks got a presence below the Rhine river is because all the Men the original tribes from below the river, the Batavians (southern Netherlands and Belgium) and the Canninefates (Western Netherlands) went and fought for the Romans, even becoming elite soldiers in Roman Legions and some Emperors even took them as bodyguards. Also the Batavians were known for.. riding into battle on horse.
About Widukind: they just meant that contemporary sources don't mention him anymore after his surrender and conversion. The legend about him killing Charlemagne is just a myth. Charlemagne died some 3 decades later.
you're right, he's mythical but real 😉. The proof, if today you can go to school it's thanks to our Charlemagne. Thank you Charlemagne😭😉
And the myth is that Widkund bore the grudge for three decades before killing Charlemange.
So, widkund goes awol after the last uprising, Charlemange dies three decades later.
What happened?
Nobody knows
this era was the real game of thrones
"Joan of Arc, savior of kingdom of France" from thecajun cutthroat channel and "hundred year's war-England vs France" of History mapped out channel🤝
Cool thanks, looking forward to it
@@ItsCharlieVestand I have others in reserve😉.I am passionate about the history of my country and I like to share it especially with Americans🤜🤛
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@@squall046 en France le savoir est gratuit mais le pire c'est que je paye pour donner du savoir aux Américains 😭😭😭
woooo u know the cajun channel? cool! du coup tu est francais je parie!
this is really a great video to watch for Americans. It shows how most modern country's are pretty "young" and the current borders weren't always like this. It also explains the different cultures in current Europe.
22:40 So, Pepin had a son named Charles who had a son named Pepin who had a son named Charles who had two sons named Pepin.
Spaniards, like Italians or Greeks, and other southern European countries tend to have Mediterranean physical features. This is prior to the Arab conquest and has a much earlier cultural ethnic root. In fact, they have done studies where they see little or almost no genetic influence on the traits of Spaniards. The influence was more in the language and the culture, especially in the southern area where the Islamic presence was longer.
proto-Germans came from Northern Germany (not Scandinavia). the Franks were indeed a confederation of older tribes and came from the lower Rhine (Germany) and spread then into Romanized regions over to the Netherlands, Belgium, partly today France - AFTER that they split into Salian and Repurian Franks (which should already be obvious for many looking at this Romanized pre naming). The CORE region is Austrasia (Western Germany, Netherlands, Belgium region with Aachen/Germany as center). A Charlemagne did not exist (thats a much later localized name by the France, from stupid English copy-pasted). His name was 'KARL' or latinized Karolus and thats what all other language refer to, all old texts, all artifacts and so on. His brother was named 'Karlmann' which ONLY makes sense if one understand that the name was 'Karl', because THEN you see the similarities just like other brothers in this line before. 'Clovis' was also not the real name (that was Clodewig which is a variation of Ludwig) but at least it is a historical accurate latinized name which was indeed used at that time for some contexts. If you know that the real name was Karl then the entire European history makes much more sense (because in all countries you had variations of that). If you know that there was also no 'Henry' but 'Heinrich', 'Louis' is also a later localized version of 'Ludwig/Clodwig' and so on, then you also understand that there were not 'different' names but the SAME (some historians really have to make their job better - for historical contexts). Same goes for some other names. At the moment there is a dynastic mess where you have Germanic, Latin, localized names mixed up in a way which does NOT reflect history very well. It was also a bit better if people dont use 'Ostrogoths/Visigoths' but at least additional 'Ostgoths and Westgoth' (who were splits from 'Goths'). This way everyone understands immediately what one is talking about. It also doesnt hurt if one gets in general that the birthplace of many cultures was Central Europe (Germany and eastern neighbors) for Proto-Germanic (Northern Germany) Proto-Celtic (Austria (Hallstatt)/Southern Germany), Proto-Slavic (Poland and some regions around) and Proto-Italic (Hungary) and the other branch was in Anatolia (Greek, Etruscian etc.). And this has to do with geographical interface positions. No one spoke 'today France' at that time. It was a Germanic dialect and/or a (changing' Latin (pre medieval and later Latin is different to the classic Latin). And if you want know about where Karl der Grosse/Charles the Great was buried then you have to visit Aachen, because that was his favorite city but keep in mind that at that time Kings/Kaiser had NO real 'capital' but they were traveling kings (which also was necessary to manage huge empires) which had a lot of 'home bases' (palatinates, in German 'Pfalze') with representatives (and prepared resources, shelter, comfort, meeting space etc.).
So one could argue that the French names are not a very frank description of the period ^^
Pun aside, thanks for your precision because, as I am French, my vision is biased by the national myth taught in our schools.
I'm not sure what the point of all of this but it seems to me that you are trying to explain that Charlemagne was a german and germany is the center of the world. No one spoke today's french and no one spoke today's german either. Germany refers to a region named by the romans where tribes that invaded the former roman empire came from not to a culture that secretely dominated the world from here. West germanic language refers to something that will more or less become Dutch later not german. The german language and culture is inherited from the frankish language and culture not the opposite, the same way than half of europe turned Charlemagne's heritage into their own thing.
And yes Charlemagne is a thing, Carolus Magnus is his official latin name which was translated in Charles-Le-Magne in french. Just take the "us" out of it and you got it.
And no, Henry, Charles and Louis are not fake names that stand for Heinrich, Ludwig and Karl. I can assure you that the king that was decapitated in 1791 was indeed named Louis.
The fact that those names are applied retroactively to Frankish kings comes from the fact that this is how it's spelled in local languages that the people are speaking at this exact same time in old western frankia. It's not a meaningless translation for the flavour 5 centuries later. Old french is derivated from latin so, yes, Carolus has it's own spelling in old french. it's not that hard to understand. So Charles X or Louis XIV are named after Charles Martel or Louis le pieux not Karl der Hammer and Ludwig der Fromme.
I have seen a few times that you are interested in the history of Europe.Just last week I visited the enormous castle of the knight Godfrey of Bouillon. There were also a lot of Dutch visitors. This castle in the south of Belgium built on a hill above the town of Bouillon near the French border is about 300 meter long and is practically still in the same state as it was more than 1000 years ago. There are several videos about this castle on you tube. Godfrey of Bouillon was the leader of the first cruisade. He left his castle in 1096 with an army of 10000 men and recaptured Jerusalem in 1099; He was appointed King of Jerusalem but chose to bear the title "Defender of the holy tomb. He never came back to his castle.You can find the whole story about him on wikipedia and there is also a video about him on you tube.
28:00 The West Frankish Kingdom was called Francia Occidentalis in Latin, and that where the name France comes from.
The time between WW2 and now has been the longest period without war in Europe, that's the longest in Europe's written history
So, Pepin the second (6:24) (In Flemish: Pepijn) was born in Herstal, a city that still exists in Belgium, near Liege.
Charles Martel (in Flemish: Karel Martel, from the latin for Hammer) was his son.
Pepin the short (In Flemish: Pepijn de Korte) was his son
Charlemagne (In Flemish Karel de Grote, in Latin Carolus Magnus (Charles the great) was then the son of Pepin the short.
This is essential Belgian history.
Note that the Flemish word "Knecht", which still to this day is used, means "Servant"
7:00 That River would be the Seine, the river that goes through Paris.
Reims is now the major city of the province of Champagne (where the famous alcool comes from). That is indeed not so far from the modern day border with Belgium.
6:45 On this map Charles Martel is in Reims which is still french and the capital of Champagne region which is one of the most french region you can think of. But if my memory serve i think he was not born in Reims but around here..
our legendary sword ( as a French ) , the sword of Roland : "Durandal" who was on a rock got stolen recently if i'm not mistaken... that mofo who did that better not get caught... for his personal safety...
Dude just mixed it up . Rumours said Charlemagne (Karl der Große in German) killed Widukind 🙃
You are correct. No makes no sense otherwise.
Darn you assume too much !
Charles Martel is not Charlemagne, Austrasia has nothing to do with Austria and Spaniards are mostly of darker skin because of the sun.
Anyway it's always comforting to see americans who are curious and eager to learn 👍
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Nice, thanks
"Frenchs are franks, Strangers are strange..."😁
5:30 Austrasia meant "the eastern country", while Neustria meant (probably) "the new country (in the West)". The name Austria has a similar meaning; it was first one of multiples eastern marches (border lands) of the Holy Roman Empire, then became the Duchy of the East, also called Ostarrichi, which only encompassed about the current state of Lower Austria. The name became then pseudo-latinized as Austria (roughly spoken: writing it like a Latin word).
17:35 The Ripuarian Franks are still Germans, settling the Rhine and Moselle valley. The first German Kingdom (in the 10th century) consisted of the Duchies of the Saxons, of the Franks, the Allemanni and the Bavarians, the Duchies of Upper and Lower Lorraine in the West, Frisia in the Northwest, the Landgraviate of Thuringia, the Margraviate of the East and the Thuringian Margraviate in the East, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Margraviate of Ostarrichi and the Duchies of Carinthia and Carniola in the Southeast. The Franconians of 6:27 were eastern Ripuarian Franks ruling over people of mostly Thuringian descent. The name "Frankfurt" means "ford of the Franks"; Charles the Great erected here one of his "Königspfalzen" (royal palaces), while his main palace was in Aachen. The dialect of the Salian Franks evolved into Dutch (which is linguistically Low Franconian).
Charlemagne spoke presumably (contemporary) Latin and the Latin-Celtic "vulgar" mix of Gaul as well as (Low) Franconian. So not High German, rather Low German - the difference was then however even smaller than today.
20:45 Widukind (= child of the woods = wolf) was baptized at Christmas 785, and Charles the Great became his godfather, creating so a spiritual relationship as well as a treaty of peace. Subsequently (baptized) Saxon nobles became officially peers of the Frankish nobles with the same rights and status within the Frankish empire. One legend says he was later slayed by Gerold of Swabia, brother-in-law of Charles and 788 -799 prefect of Bavaria; another states he was banned as monk to the Abbey of Reichenau in Lake Constance. He had allegedly a son called Wiprecht, whose grandson Wikbert became in 874 the Bishop of Verden. Another descendant was Matilda of Ringelheim who married in 909 Henry the Fowler, Duke of Saxony since 912 and King of East Francia 919-936. Their son Otto I the Great restored as (first) German King (936-973) and King of Italy (961-973) the Holy Roman Empire in 962.
26:40 That is how the Lorraine came into being. Middle Francia was called "Lotharingia" after Lothar of Italy (who got also the title of Emperor), which became "Lorraine" in French and "Lothringen" in German. But Lothar died early in 855, and his sons divided the realm between themselves - Ludwig II got the Emperorship and Italy, Lothar II got Lotharingia, and Charles of Provence, the youngest, got Burgundy (except of the smaller western part "Bourgogne" which belonged already to Western Francia). Lothar II died in 869 without an legitime heir, and his uncles Charles the Bald of West Francia and Ludwig der Deutsche (Louis the German) of East Francia divided Lotharingia between themselves. Around 875 Charles the Bald tried to get the whole Lotharingia by war, but was defeated in 876 by Ludwig III, and in 880 the grandchildren of Charles the Bald renounced all West Frankish claims to Lotharingia.
Therefore Lotharingia became part of the Kingdom of East Francia, which was renamed the German Kingdom in the 10th century (after the Saxon Duke Henri was elected as King of East Francia by the Frankish and Saxon leaders and his son Otto I called himself German King). This Kingdom then expanded mostly to the East and Northeast (Brandenburg, Mecklenburg, Pommerania); in 951 Otto I was asked for help by Adelaide of Burgundy, widow of King Lothar II of Italy against Margrave Berengar of Ivrea. Otto invaded Italy, married Adelheid and became King of Italy, which was a prerequisite to become Roman Emperor. In 1033 Burgundy, also known as Kingdom of Arelat, became by inheritage also part of the Holy Roman Empire, and in 1158 the Duchy of Bohemia was appointed to be its own kingdom within the Empire, which since then consisted of those four kingdoms.
You're getting smarter, Charlie-you already know more than the average European.
Well Charlemagne must be one of those essential primary school history lessons in most if not all western european countries
Now that's what you call having a history!
Being a Frank myself, i am astonished that you are interessted in the history of the Franks. There is a rather large minority of us in the north of bavaria. All actions to turn us into bavarians failed. We are Franks and we are free. Franken bassd scho!
It's kinda edgy though.
Rhinelanders, Flemish and half of the Dutch are also Franks.
5:13 Nope, Austrasia and Austria only have similar names because both mean "Eastern realm" in Latin. But they mean different realms.
Also, back then the name "Austria" for Austria didn't exist yet.
The Austrian self-designation of Austria is "Österreich" (in Old High German: "Ostarrichi"), which is the German term for "Eastern realm" and for quite a long time there was no Latin denotation for it except "Marcha orientalis", which was a bit vague because with the passage of time several regions in the east of the empire were being labelled with that name.
The Latin term "Austria" for Österreich is actually a relatively new creation. It was swiftly made up for a document that (of course) had to be in Latin in 1147.
Since then any risk of linguistic confusion was gone once and for all.
Greetings from Österreich! 🙂
P.S.: Yes, you're absolutely right: "Charlemagne the Great" is redundant. 😁 In German we call him "Karl der Große (Karl the Great)" so there is no problem with the name. 😉
the pictures used are AI I guess? Early medieval armor had no plates, chain mail was used. Also the helmets aren't correct. Shields where different back than too, they where longer. The "full body" plates where used in late medieval times. Thanks for the video
Yeah, it's annoying to see this kind of misleading machine-generated nonsense in a video meant to be informative and educative. When you research the Merovingian and Carolingian eras, you can observe beautiful vestiges of the old roman empire mixed with germanic and other various "barbarian" contributions. Just look up the military gears of Merovingian and Carolingians soldiers, for instance. THAT's the kind of stuff that stimulates the imagination, not AI garbage.
I think that people are darker in southern parts of southern countries do to the fact that they where settled by people even farther southern. Its not only in spain. You see same difference between southern and northern Italians and so on.
But spain was ruled under arabic influence during 700 years. That onfluenced the spanish languange where wee have a lot of words from the arabic languange.
The unification of the Franks by Clovis (or Chlodwig, the old Frankish variant of Ludwig/Louis, meaning "glorious warrior") was not as peaceful as portrayed. To the Romans he was officially the successor of his father as administrator of the Roman province Belgica secunda; for his war against Syagrius in 486 he allied with Ragnachar, one of his relatives who ruled over Cambrai and used also Roman border troops under his command, while his cousin Chararic stayed "neutral" despite Clovis' request for support. In 496 Clovis supported the Ripuarian Franks, which were led by their king Sigibert of Cologne, against the Alamanni. Sigobert was wounded at the knee in the battle of Zülpich and since then called Sigibert the Lame. In 507 Clovis started with Sigibert's support to conquer southern France, which was then part of the Visigoth kingdom; the troops of the Ripuarian Franks were commanded by Sigibert's son Chlodoric. During the campaing Clovis instigated Chlodoric to replace his disabled father, and Chlodoric sent assassins to kill his father during an excursion to the countryside. Chlodoric then informed Clovis of the murder and invited him to share the Ripuarian king's treasure with him. Clovis sent messengers to kill Chlodoric while he reached into the treasure chest, accused him publicly of parricide and marched with his troops into Cologne to claim also the crown of the Ripuarian Franks for himself. Shortly afterwards Clovis also trapped and captured Chararic and his son; he had them tonsured and made them priests. Long hair was to the Franks a symbol of power and masculinity, and as they planned to let thier hair grow again, Clovis had them both killed. And even his earliest ally Ragnachar had to die; Ragnachar led allegedly a rather dissolute life, even aggravating some of his followers by affairs with their daughters and wives (or so Clovis' historians wrote later). In 509 he allegedly did not open the city gates of Cambrai for Clovis; Clovis reacted with bribing Clovis officers as well as going to war on him. Ragnachar's troops surrendered, and Clovis killed him and his two brothers.
Fun fact, France in German is still "Frankreich"
Middle Frankish kingdom was in fact called Lotharingie... it is what produced Italie, Switzerland, Belgium and Neederland
in this area, kingdoms joined and splited many times before being close to actual forms
Austrasia, Austria, Australia;
These are three different areas, but the name says the Eastern Area.
En. Fr. : Charlemagne = German: Karl der Große (Charles the Great) was king of the entire Frankish Empire. The empire was divided among his sons. The East Frankish Empire was particularly weak. That's why the Franks came under Bavarian rule. This is northern Bavaria today. There they say they are in Bavaria but they are still Franconian.
Siento decirte que el nacimiento de la primera civilización en Europa occidental fueron los tartesos en el suroeste de España y eso ocurrió hace 3000 años cuando en Europa sólo había tribus sin escritura. La primera ciudad que se fundó en Europa es la actual Cádiz. Saludos
This video is inaccurate in some points. Most notably, not Paris was the main residence of Charlemange, but Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle in French). Also it does not make much sense, that Pepin of Herstal should have fought the Franconians - this information seems to originate in the English language Wikipedia article about Pepin, but is noted there without any reference cited. I think it is obvious, that this is a mistake. The tribe, that later became known as Franconians, has its origin in the Frank empire. In the 6th century, they did not exist as a solitary group. Funny: in German language, the Franks are called "Franken" and the Franconians ( the word is a latinized coinage) are also called "Franken". It's the same ;)
Correct, the video is not very good, there are many more errors.
In Spanish we call it "Aquisgrán", much closer to the original (Aquae Granae)
Actually Charlemagne was a patron of the arts too. See e.g. "Mosan art" in wikipedia.
Carolus Magnus = Charlemagne = Karl der Grösse = Charle the great
it's not the same guy on the miniature 😂😂😂😂
It's a common midtake, even in french, to be abused by the traduction of "Rois Fainéants" or "Lazy Kings". In fact they were not lazy, but as said in old french "le Roi fait néant" (in two words), which can be translated as "The King does nothing". Those kings were warriors and kings, no time to be lazy. But the political system changes and the nobility and the warriors gained power and influence, more than kings before, and the reign of Merovingian Kings was more focused on diplomacy and bargaining for support than real politik.
It all happen in France tournai Reims etc
Charlemagne spoke lower franconian which is old dutch
Austrasia was the Eastern part of the Franks, nothing to do with modern Austria.
The original territory of Clovis was divided because it was the rule for Frankish Kings to divide their Kingdom between all their sons. Kind Dagobert ("Bright as day") managed to unify it again at some time. It was a fraternal bloodbath and they are in the "History of the Franks" some hair-raising stories compared to which even the meanest episode of "War of Thrones" is a tea party between old ladies.
The Frankish language was a form of Low German, not High German, cousin to Dutch.
The Salic law had a very deep effect on European history because it forbade any woman to reign, and any man to have a woman passing its lineage to a king to reign. Succession and lineage could only be ensured through men. In case a direct masculine lineage died out, one had to go back to the closest masculine lineage to find the new king. Hence the Capetian dynasty: Direct Capetians, then Valois, then Bourbon...These were all dynasties coming in direct masculine line from Hugh Capet, but for the Bourbon for instance, one had to go back to the descendants of Saint Louis, Louis IX, to find an undisturbed masculine lineage. This custom had tremendous importance because this led to several long and lasting wars with England, whose Kings claimed the French throne through Isabelle de France, Philipp the Fair's daughter.
Pippi of Herstal was the grandfather of Pippi the Short, it goes: Pippi of Herstal, Charles Martel, Pippi the Short, Charles the Great (Charlemagne).
France had three different dynasties: Merovingians (Clovis and descendants), Carolingians (Pippi of Herstal and descendants), Capetians (Robert the Strong and descendants). Louis XVI was a Capetian. Capetians were related to Carolingians, who weren't related to Merovingians. Nobody knows whether there are descendants or not of the Merovingians, and who they are.
Fun fact: Want to prevent a Merovingian from reigning? No need to kill him...Just cut his hair short. There. Unfit for King. Kings had to have long hair.
"Frankfurt" means "Fort(ress) of the Franks"
"Frankreich" means "Kingdom of the Franks"
Nicknames and numbers were given to important people by historians, only Martel (sledgehammer) was given during his lifetime. Pipin (Pepin, Pepijn, Pipo) was a traditional first name in the family. Just like Charles (Carolus, Karel, Karl).
And parts were called Old Lands (Austrasia), New Lands (Neustria), West Lands (Occitane), and Burgundic Lands (after the Burgundian tribe). No wonder that the eastern lands were later called East Lands (Ost-mark, Österreich).
Modern languages didn't exist, French developed around Paris region and spread, German was highly influenced by the Bible translation by Luther in his regional dialect. Charles (the Great, der Grosse, de Grote) of Herstal, probably spoke a Low Franconian dialect, common in the region where nowadays Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany meet. In two centuries their seat shifted only twelve miles to the east, Landen, Herstal, Aachen.
According Sallian Law fathers lands had to be divided between his sons, but at their death, the lands would go to the longest living son, the oldest brother still alive. The sons of Lothar became dukes, and his brother Louis (Lutwich, Lodewijk), king of the East Frankian Kingdom, succeeded as Emperor and King over the Middle Frankian Kingdom.
Can you also watch The Migration Period: How Europe Was Born from this channel? It’s like a prequel to this video and it’s very clear and easy to follow
19:30 Pretty sure this is a mistake and the legend says Charlemagne killed Widukind.
The video he watches leaves a looooot of stuff out...
It has many mistakes.
If you'd like to know everything about Charlemagne, watch this video by the excellent Simon Whistler: "Charlemagne: The Father of Europe" - Biographics
France belongs to Belgium.
Of course !!! 😂😂😂
Austria come from Estern Kingdom in german, not Austrasia
7.59 Charlie... you are very astute in your observations. You deserve to become at least European but none the less Dutch.
and dutch is a Low Frankish dialect
hmmm, Frankish is the ancestor of Dutch. Frankish is dead so Dutch can't be a dialect plus it's modernized.
Frankish is the major ancestral language of Dutch. Dutch is only a 1000 years old and when it came into existence there was heavy influence from Frisian and also some Danish influence.
Charlemagne was speaking old French ( vieux francique ) not modern French he wasn’t a German
and no french too ;)?
@@tomreg7737 where is tournai ?
The Franks did not cease to exist in 843... And the "Kingdom of France" got that name only in the early 13th century, with Philippe-Auguste. The assimilation between Franks and Gallo-Romans took place over many centuries. "Italy" as a country was created in the 1860, like Germany. The Frankish empire continued until 962, when it was replaced in the East by the Holy roman empire, and in the West by the Kingdom of the Franks (not the Kingdom of France...).
Something else : the video talks about "aryanism". That's an error : it's arianism, with a "i". The former is a nazi pseudo-scientific doctrine, the later is the teaching of Arius, a priest from Cyrenaic province of the roman empire (nowadays Libya).
As for the legends concerning Widukind : they are legends, not history. Created long after his death by people who did not care AT ALL about history, but a lot about politics. The first legend is about making the Germans people mortal ennemies of the Franks (and thus the French). The second legend is about making the German the heirs of the Frankish empire (and not the French). During antiquity and the middle-age, "history" was forged to suits the political needs, or tastes. Thus, while we can somewhat trust a IXth century text talking about something happening in the IXth century, we should NEVER trust a XIIIth century legend about a VIIIth century event.
Phillippe-Auguste didn't change the name of the kingdom (France is just the linguistic evolution of Frankia, they didn't feel different from their predecessors), he changed the title of the king from king of the franks (-> king of the people in the kingdom) to king of "the land" itself (France, Francia, whatever it wasn't important). The point was just that symbolicly he owned the kingdom itself.
It's a bit like what Louis-Philippe (in 1830) will do, but the other way around, from "King of France" to "King of the French".
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Yeah it is tempting to hope an think that the Franks basically were the ancestors of the current country called France, but that is not/partially the case. The Franks were the ancestors of most of the modern Western European people...and yes in the end there was a country formed called France but by all means doe not mix the Franks and the current French up. The names look very much alike, but that's really it. They spoke an entirely different language, they had entire different social structures, they had very different Cultures, so except from the "look-a-like" name they really have not very much in common. In fact a part of the Franks turned into what now would be modern Germany and you can trust me on this: the French and the German are totally different in a way that they do not like each other that much in general. Mostly due to mentality differences, cultural differences. I personally prefer 100% the Germans over the French, no doubt about it. We used to make this joke at home about this subject: France is such a beautiful country, such a shame all of those French live there though... ;-)
Pourquoi tant de haine ?
@@PhilippeBROCHARD Het is een vaststelling van feiten gebaseerd op eigen slechte ervaringen in Frankrijk. De Fransen in de regel zijn chauvinistisch, hautain en ze wensen geen andere taal te beheersen dan dat achterhaalde Frans en ze zijn volledig onterecht trots op de producten die ze maken. Wereldwijd staan de Franse producten bekend on de de naam Produit Inferieur Francaise. Dus Nein Danke !
Normaal gesproken had ik in het Engles geantwoord, maar omdat je mij in het Frans te woord staat (zo typisch Frans hautain weer...) heb ik geantwoord in mijn eigen taal.
@@PhilippeBROCHARD Het is een vaststelling van feiten gebaseerd op eigen slechte ervaringen in Frankrijk. De Fransen in de regel zijn chauvinistisch, hautain en ze wensen geen andere taal te beheersen dan dat achterhaalde Frans en ze zijn volledig onterecht trots op de producten die ze maken. Wereldwijd staan de Franse producten bekend on de de naam Produit Inferieur Francaise. Dus Nein Danke !
Normaal gesproken had ik in het Engles geantwoord, maar omdat je mij in het Frans te woord staat (zo typisch Frans hautain weer...) heb ik geantwoord in mijn eigen taal.
@@PhilippeBROCHARD It is a statement of facts based on my own bad experiences in France. The French as a rule are chauvinistic, haughty and they do not wish to speak any other language than that outdated French and they are completely unjustifiedly proud of the products they make. Worldwide, French products are known under the name Produit Inferieur Francaise. So Nein Danke!
Tell me you don't know anything about the history of the Franks in France, without telling me directly.
Even the famous long-lasting dynasty that reigned over all of the history of the kingdom of France, the Capetians, just come directly from the Robertian frankish dynasty.
It's a common misconception in the germanic world, to imagine there's no germanic heritage in France. France is a mix from the start. Germanic laws even existed until the French revolution.
Our money called Belgian Frank, just like the French Frank. And Belgium come from the Belgae, Julius Caesar conquered parts of Belgium, Netherlands, France and Germany
called Belgica 57BC later split in 2, Belgica Prima and Belgia Secunda. Later was conquered by almost everyone in Europe :/. Greetings from Flanders Fields Belgium
The franc was originally a French gold coin of 3.87 g minted in 1360 on the occasion of the release of King John II ("the Good"), held by the English since his capture at the Battle of Poitiers four years earlier. It was equivalent to one livre tournois (Tours pound).
So, except that franc/frank means "free", there's no relation between the money and Franks
people often wonder why french, despite being a romance language, doesn't sound like spanish, italian.... this is why, because of its germanic origins. The french "r" sounds quite like the german one and the sound "ü" exists in german and french but not in the other romance languages (and not in english either for what it's worth^^)
In French, Germany is called Allemagne, which comes form the Allemani, another germanic tribe, mentionned in the beginning of the video
It surprises me that the video didn't mention Aachen/Aix la Chapelle which was Charlemagne's capital and seems to indicate Paris was the capital at the time