Empire481 CE – 800 CE · 319 years
Frankish Kingdom
Overview
The Kingdom of the Franks, also known as the Frankish Kingdom or Francia, was the largest post-Roman kingdom in Western Europe. It was established by the Franks, one of the Germanic peoples. Its founder was King Clovis I who united Frankish tribes and expanded the Frankish realm into the Roman Gaul. During the Early Middle Ages, the kingdom was ruled by the Merovingian and Carolingian dynasties. In 800, it evolved into the Carolingian Empire, thus becoming the longest lasting Germanic kingdom from the era of Great Migrations.
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Borders & accuracy
Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.
- SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
- DETAILhistorical-basemaps (Ourednik)
- SNAPSHOT800 CE
- POLITY TYPEstate
Wars of this empire25
Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.
- Frankish Wars of Charlemagne768–814 CEMajor conflict · 500K dead
- Charlemagne's Saxon Wars772–804 CEMajor conflict
- Charlemagne's Italian Wars773–774 CEMajor conflict
- Charlemagne's Avar War791–796 CEMajor conflict
- Lombard Wars568–774 CESignificant · 200K dead
- Frankish-Saxon Wars772–804 CESignificant · 200K dead
- Frankish-Moorish Wars711 CE–1000Significant · 100K dead
- Significant
- Significant
- Battle of Zulpich496 CERegional
- Battle of Dijon500 CERegional
- Frankish–Burgundian wars500–534 CERegional
- Battle of Vouille507 CERegional
- Frankish–Visigothic war (507–508)507–508 CERegional
- Battle of Arles508 CERegional
- Battle of Vezeronce524 CERegional
- Battle of Autun532 CERegional
- Battle of Casilinum554 CERegional
- Battle of Wogastisburg631 CERegional
- Frankish civil war (715–718)715–718 CERegional
- Battle of Ambleve716 CERegional
- Battle of Tours732 CERegional
- Battle of Roncesvalles778 CERegional
- Battle of Suntel Hill782 CERegional
+ 1 more in the atlas.
Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 481 CE and fits the map to these borders.
Cite as: Frankish Kingdom (481 CE – 800 CE). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/europe-frankish-kingdom · Sources & methodology