
The Carolingians
(751-987):
754
: Birth of the divine right royalty. Indeed
Seed, his wife Berthe and his two sons Carloman
and Charles are consecrated by the pope Etienne
II.
755-756 : Seed leaves
in expedition to Italy against the Lombard, the
pope's enemies, and takes from them 22 cities
768 : End of the
conquest of Aquitaine. Death of Seed the Brief.
Kingdom is shared between its two sons: Charles
and Carloman.
771 : Death of Carloman,
Charles reunifies the kingdom
774 : Charlemagne
invades Lombardy. He is consecrated as king of the
Lombard.
778 : Expedition
in Spain against the Saracens. To the return, the
rearward is attacked in Roncevaux. (Song of Roland)
781 : Charlemagne
names his young sons, Seed king of Lombardy and
Louis king of Aquitaine.
785 : Saxony is
submitted and is connected at the straightforward
kingdom.
792 : Tentative
of murder on Charlemagne of an illegitimate son,
Seed the Hunchback. .
794 : Bavaria is
annexed.
800 : December 25,
the pope Leon III Charlemagne consecration, Roman
emperor of west.
802 : Decree that
obliges all free man to take oath
813 : Charlemagne
names his son, Louis, emperor
814 : Death of Charlemagne
in Aachen. His son Louis the Devout follows him.
817 : Ordinatio
imperii of Louis the Picket that dictates his succession.
His son is associated to the throne. .
819 : After his
wife's death, Ermengarde, Louis marries Judith of
Bavaria.
823 : Birth of the
king's fourth son, the future Charles the Bald and
makes him his Lothaire successor and unleash the
anger of his other sons.
829 : Collected
of Worms that gives to Lothaire Italy and to Charles
Alsace, the Alamanie and a part of Burgundy
831 : Collected
of Aachen that abolishes the imperial decree that
made of the Lothaire successor of Emperor Louis.
833 : After a revolt
of his eldest sons, Louis the Devout is deposited.
Lothaire becomes emperor
835 : Louis the
Germanic and Seed of Aquitaine form a league against
their brother Lothaire and oblige it to flee in
Italy. Louis the Devout recovers his emperor's rank
840 : Death of Louis
the Devout in Mainz whereas he got ready to make
the war to his son Louis the Germanic.
841 : Lothaire loses
the battle of Fontenoy in Puisaye against his brothers
Louis the Germanic and Charles.
842 : Oaths of alliance
between Louis and Charles in Strasbourg in presence
of their armies.
843 : Treaty Verdun
where empire is shared between Lothaire (Lotharingie),
Louis (Francia Orientalis) and Charles (Francia
occidentalis).
845 : The Norman,
after have go back up the Seine, seize Paris. Charles
the Bald buys their departure
869 : Charles the
Bald becomes king of Lotharingie
875 : Charles the
Bald makes itself crown emperor by the pope.
877 : Before the
growing power of the Lords of kingdom, Charles the
Bald is forced to convene an assembly in Quierzy
on Oise that recognizes the principle of the heredity
of the loads. Death of Charles the Bald (poisoned?).
His son, Louis II the Stutterer, follows him. Beginning
of the Carolingian decadence.
879 : Death of Louis
II the Stutterer
888 : Eudes, count
of Paris, is elected king of Francia occidentalis.
893 : Other Lords
elect King Charles III the simple (Carolingian heir).
898 : After his
death, Eudes recognizes Charles III as successor.
911 : Charles III
signs with the Norman French the agreement of Saint-Clear
-sur-Epte that creates the dukedom Normandy and
puts an end to the invasions
923 : BBattle in
Soissons enters the army of Charles III and the
one of Robert 1st, proclaimed king in the year 922.
Robert is killed but Charles III must beat a retreat.
Raoul, duke of Burgundy is elected king.
929 : Charles III
dies in captivity
936 : Death of Raoul.
The big, to the instigation of Hugues the Big, name
King Louis IV of ultramarine (son of Charles III,
he was sheltered in England).
954 : Death of Louis
IV. His son, Lothaire follows him.
986 : Death of Lothaire.
His son Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king.
987 : To the accidental
death of Louis V that doesn't have son, Hugues Capet,
son of Hugues the big, makes itself elect king in
the assembly of Senlis.