When King Louis was in reign, he accepted a mutual relationship with the Pope, and therefore lost the kingdom's respect. Courts began to accumilate moer power. When it was time to pass on his kingdom, Louis divided it among his three sons. The sons fought constantly for more land, and soon, the court system had taken over and began to rule small areas like THEY were kings, until the Frankish Empire was utterly divided.
It was Charles the Great who made the Frankish kingdom an Empire.
The Frankish Empire, which is usually called the Carolingina Empire, started on December 25, 800 AD with the coronation of Charlemagne in Rome.
Charlemagne, was the Frankish king.
Charlemagne's Empire had its capital at Aachen, Germany.
The Saxons and the angles
A strong, central ruling civilization. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Europe was left divided into small tribes, clans, and kingdoms such as the Gauls. A central civilization did not emerge until Charlemagne expanded the Frankish kingdom into that of an Empire in the late 8th and early 9th centuries. Even then, Charlemagne's Frankish Empire was nothing compared to the previous Roman Empire.
Charlemagne...
The first king of the Merovingian dynasty, Clovis, made Paris the Frankish capital in 508.
771-843
he expanded the empire by lowering taxes
Frankia or Frankland
Norman,Frankish,French,and Roman