Carolingian Definition

kărə-lĭnjən, -jē-ən
adjective
Designating or of the second Frankish dynasty, founded (a.d. 751) by Pepin the Short, son of Charles Martel.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the Carolingian Renaissance.
American Heritage

Of or pertaining to the reign of Charlemagne.

Wiktionary
noun
A member of this dynasty.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
Carolingian
Plural:
carolingians

Origin of Carolingian

  • French Carolingien alteration of Carlovingien blend of Medieval Latin Carolus Charles and French Mérovingien Merovingian

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • An eponym from Charles the Great, king of the Franks. Reshaping of earlier Carlovingian.

    From Wiktionary

Carolingian Sentence Examples

  • In the triple partition of the Carolingian empire at Verdun in 843, the central portion was assigned to the emperor Lothaire, separating the kingdoms of East Francia (the later The duchy Germany) from West Francia (the later France).

  • Had his successor been as prudent and able, he might have made a unified Netherlands the nucleus of a mighty middle kingdom, interposing between France and Germany, and a revival of that of the Carolingian Lothaire.

  • Under the empire Arvernia formed part of Prima Aquitania, and the district shared in the fortunes of Aquitaine during the Merovingian and Carolingian periods.

  • The discords which followed on the break-up of the Carolingian power, and the weakness of the so-called Italian emperors, who were unable to control the feudatories (marquises of Ivrea and Tuscany, dukes of Friuli and Spoleto), from whose ranks they sprang, exposed Italy to ever-increasing misrule.

  • His graduation thesis, published in 1819, on the history of the Merovingian mayors of the palace, attracted the attention of Baron Stein, by whom he was engaged in 1820 to edit the Carolingian chroniclers for the newly-founded Historical Society of Germany.

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