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In 451 Aetius called upon his Germanic allies on Roman soil to help fight off an invasion by the Huns. The Salian Franks answered the call, the Ripuarians fought on both sides as some of them lived outside the Empire. At this time Merovech was king of the Franks.
Clovis engaged in a campaign of consolidating the various Frankish kingdoms in Gaul and the Rhineland, which included defeating Syagrius in 486. This victory ended Roman control in the Paris region. The later conversion of Clovis to Roman Christianity, instead of the Arianism of the other Germanic peoples, may have helped to increase his standing in the eyes of the Pope and the other orthodox rulers.In the Battle of Vouillé ( 507), Clovis, with the help of Burgundy, defeated the Visigoths, expanding his realm eastwards up to the Pyrenees mountains.
Because they were able to worship with their Catholic neighbors, the Franks found much easier acceptance from the local (Roman) population than did the Visigoths, Vandals, Burgundians). The Merovingians thus built the most stable of the successor-kingdoms in the west.
TheCarolingian line is considered to have started with the deposition of the last Merovingian king and the accession in 751Events Pippin the Short is elected as king of the Franks by the Frankish nobility. End of the Merovingian and beginning of the Carolingian dynasty. The Lombard king Aistulf captures Ravenna and the Romagna, ending the Byzantine Exarchate of Ravenna. Arabi of Pippin the ShortPepin III ( 714 September 24, 768) more often known as Pepin the Short (French, Pepin le Bref German, Pippin der Jungere , was a King of the Franks ( 751 768). He was born in 714 in Jupille, in what is today part of Belgium, but then a part of the kingdom, father of CharlemagneCharlemagne (c. 2nd of April, 747 28th of January, 814) (or Charles the Great in German Karl der Grosse in Latin Carolus Magnus giving rise to the adjective form 'Carolingian'), was king of the Franks from 771 to 814, nominally King of the Lombards, and H. Pippin had succeeded his own father, Charles Martel, as Mayor of the Palace of a reunited and reerected Frankish kingdom comprised of the formerly independent parts.
Charlemagne's only remaining son, Louis the PiousLouis the Pious (also known as Louis I Louis the Fair and Louis the Debonaire German form: Ludwig der Fromme French form: Louis le Pieux or Louis le Debonnaire Spanish form: Ludovico Pio ( April 16, 778 June 20, 840) was Emperor and King of the Franks fro, followed his father as the ruler of a united Empire. After his death in 840Events After the death of Louis the Pious, his sons Lothair, Charles the Bald and Louis the German fight over the division of the empire, with Lothair succeding as Emperor. Tang Wu Zong succeeds Tang Wen Zong as emperor of China. Foundation of Dublin by V, the Empire was eventually divided in three in the Treaty of VerdunIn the Treaty of Verdun of 843 the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious divided his territories, the Carolingian Empire, into three kingdoms. When Louis the Pious had died in 840, the eldest son, Lothar, claimed overlordship over his brothers' kingdoms in 843Events Treaty of Verdun divides the Carolingian empire between the 3 sons of Louis the Pious. Namely Charles the Bald, Lothar and Louis the German. Kenneth MacAlpin, King of the Scots, makes himself King of the Picts. The resulting unified Scottish/Pictis: