Franks
Charlemagne's ancestral tribe
The Franks were a confederation of Germanic tribes who conquered Gaul in the late Roman period, eventually giving France its name.
Their most famous ruler was Charlemagne.
Franks also serves as a surname: Anne Frank, Barney Frank. (Lowercase franks are hot dogs or postal markings.)
Early medieval Western unifier
- Treaty of Verdun843 Frankish succession agreement
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
- SaxonsGermanic British settlers
- Holy Roman EmpireMedieval Germanic political entity
Of Teutonic language stock
- RhineMajor Central European waterway
- confederationAutonomous entities united loosely
- migrationMovement to new territory
- GaulRoman-era Western Europe
Romanization · paganism · warriors · chieftains · clans · settlements · Rhineland · Frankish
First Merovingian ruler
- CatholicismPapal Christian denomination
- conversionAct of changing states
- VisigothsGermanic tribe, sacked Rome
- GaulRoman-era Western Europe
Charlemagne
Early medieval Western unifier
- Treaty of Verdun843 Frankish succession agreement
- coronationCeremony installing a sovereign
- SaxonsGermanic British settlers
Holy Roman Empire · feudalism · vassals · counts · dukes · palatine
Germanic
Of Teutonic language stock
- RhineMajor Central European waterway
- confederationAutonomous entities united loosely
- migrationMovement to new territory
Gaul · Romanization · paganism · warriors · chieftains · clans · settlements · Rhineland · Frankish · Merovingian
Clovis
First Merovingian ruler
- CatholicismPapal Christian denomination
- conversionAct of changing states
- VisigothsGermanic tribe, sacked Rome
Franklin
Surname or locality
- FrankfurtGerman financial capital
- Merovingiansroyal tombs, royal courts, palace intrigue
- Medieval Eraknights, Middle Ages, castles, feudal lords, medieval period
- Medieval Europekings, queens, knights, castles, castle
- Middle AgesMiddle Ages, medieval period, castles, knights, Dark Ages
- historical peoplesAztecs, Babylonians, Celts, Egyptians, Gauls
- French HistoryNapoleon Bonaparte, French Revolution, Napoleon, Bastille, Reign of Terror
FranksVisigoths
Germanic tribe, sacked Rome
Saxons · Huns · Ostrogoths · Vandals · Burgundians
- Frank Sinatra
- to be frankSpeaking without concealment
- Anne Frank
- ballpark franksHot dogs at games
- franks and beansSausages with baked legumes
- Frank Lloyd WrightPioneering American architect
frankly, frankness, Francophone, Frank, franker, frankest, Franken