They took her to a church in the kingdom of the Franks, a realm whose borders spanned much of Western Europe at the time. The priest at the church, which had been sanctified by the recent arrival ...

Charlemagne was crowned king of the Franks in 768 and appointed the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800. He is ...

The unbroken succession of fifteen Capetian kings began in 987 when Hugh Capet was elected to the kingship of the Franks by his fellow magnates at Senlis, replacing the Carolingian dynasty that had ...