Our Frankish Heritage

Frankish Heritage Links

Culture

• Enluminures, Frankish images from illuminated manuscripts
• The History of Costume, Carolingians, 19th Century plates
• The History of Costume, 10th Century France, 19th Century plates

History

• Rois du Moyen-âge, Rois, Régents, Maires de Palais, names and dates
• The Merovingians, the first Frankish dynasty
• Clodio, King of the Salian Franks, the first in a series of genealogical pages on the Merovingians
• Clovis dans l'Histoire de France, Lycée Le Rebours
• Dagobert II, 
• The Carolingians, the House of Charlemagne
• De Charlemagne à la féodalité, 
• St. Arnulf, Bishop of Metz, the first in a series of genealogical pages on the Carolingians
• Carolingian Historical Texts
• Einhardi vita Karoli Magni, Einhardt's Life of Charlemagne, translated by Samuel Turner
• The Historical Charlemagne (742?-814), from Compton's
• The Capetians, the beginnings of the French nation
• Les Capetiens - Les Croisades, A six part series with photos and sound, in French
• Periode Capetienne, from Livre des Sources Médiévales
• The Battle of Poitiers, the account of an unknown Arab chronicler
• Radegund of Poiters, (c. 518 - 587), and essay on the Franksh queen, by Onnie Duval

Language

Literature

• Frankish Primary Sources, from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• Fredegarius, an essay on the alleged author of the Frankish history, Chronicon Fredegarii
• Gregory of Tours
• A bibliography of Gregory of Tours, texts and translations
• Gregory of Tours, on Clovis, from the History of the Franks
• The Song of Roland, Montcrief translation

Mythology and Religion

• Annals of Lorsch: The pope makes the Carolingians kings, from the Medieval Sourcebook
• The Conversion of Clovis, accounts from St. Denis and Gregory of Tours
• Les Papes et les rois de France (41 [481]-768), 

Society

• Early Germanic Law, primary sources, including Frankish and Carolingian
• Royal Participation in Episcopal Elections in Merovingian Gaul, an essay by Gary Johnson

Last Updated on 24 March, 2002