Frankish warriors

Charlemagne ( ; 2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire from 800. He united most of Western and Central Europe and was the first recognised emperor to rule from the west after the fall of the Western Roman Empire approximately three centuries earlier. Charlemagne's reign was marked by political and social changes that had lasting influence on Europe throughout the Middle Ages.

first king of the Franks (c. 466-511)

Frankish military and political leader (c. 688–741)

King of the Franks

King of West Francia from 843 to 877 and Carolingian Emperor from 875 to 877

King of the Franks from 751 to 768

King of the Franks

Emperor of the Carolingian Empire (839-888) (r. 881-887)

Emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 817 to 855

King of the Franks

King of West Francia

King of East Francia from 843 to 876

king of East Francia

King of West Francia from 922 to 923

Roland (; ; or Rotholandus; or Rolando; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became an epic hero and one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the Matter of France. The historical Roland was military governor of the Breton March, responsible for defending Francia's frontier against the Bretons. His only historical attestation is in Einhard's Vita Karoli Magni, which notes he was part of the Frankish rearguard killed in retribution by the Basques in Iberia at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass.

Ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 844 to 875

King of West Francia from 877 to 879

King of France

King of West Francia from 936 to 954

King of West Francia from 979 to 987

King of Neustria

Frankish king

King of West Francia from 879 to 884

Merovech (; ; 411 –457) was the ancestor of the Merovingian dynasty, and the grandfather of its founder Clovis I. He was reportedly a king of the Salian Franks, but records of his existence are mixed with legend and myth. The most important written source, Gregory of Tours, recorded that Merovech was said to be descended from Chlodio, a roughly contemporary Frankish warlord who pushed from the Silva Carbonaria in modern central Belgium as far south as the Somme, north of Paris in modern-day France. His supposed descendants, the kings Childeric I and Clovis I, are the first well-attested Merovi

King of the Franks (r. 768–771)

Chlodomer, also spelled Clodomir or Clodomer (524), was the second of the four sons of Clovis I, King of the Franks.

Frankish King

King of West Francia (c.857-898) (r.888-898)

king of Neustria from 561 to 584 (537-584)

king of East Francia

King of West Francia from 954 to 986

King of Paris

Holy Roman Emperor from 915 to 924

king of France (890-936)

King of the Franks

Frankish King

king of Italy, Holy Roman Emperor, and Duke of Spoleto and Camerino (880-898)

Holy Roman Emperor from 891 to 894

King of Bavaria from 876 to 879

King of Austrasia

Saint Gontrand ( 532 in Soissons – 28 March 592 in Chalon-sur-Saône), also called Gontran, Gontram, Guntram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, was the king of the Kingdom of Orléans from AD 561 to AD 592. He was the third-eldest and second-eldest-surviving son of Chlothar I and Ingunda. On his father's death in 561, he became king of a fourth of the Kingdom of the Franks, and made his capital at Orléans. The name "Gontrand" denotes "War Raven".

King of Neustria and Burgundy

Frankish king

King of Neustria

Mayor of the Palace (635-714)

Chlodio (also Cloio or Chlogio), was a 5th-century Frankish king who attacked and then apparently ruled Roman-inhabited lands around Cambrai and Tournai, near the modern border of Belgium and France. Very little is known about him, and he is mentioned only briefly in a small number of much later records. He was alive during the period when Aëtius (d. 454) was leader of the Roman military in Gaul.

Frankish King

Frankish king

Frankish king

son of Charlemagne and King of the Lombards

King of Burgundy

Holy Roman Emperor from 901 to 905

King of Austrasia

King of Lotharingia from 855 to 869

Samo ( – ) was the founder and sole ruler of the first recorded unified tribal polity of Slavs, later known as ''Samo's realm'', ruling from 623 until his death in 658. According to Fredegar—the earliest source about Samo and the one from which all later ones derive—he was a Frankish merchant from Sens.

Mayor of the Palace (585-640)

King of Austrasia

King of East Francia

King of Austrasia

thumbnail|The Frankish Empire in 555, the year of Theudebald's death Theudebald (in modern English, Theobald; in French, Thibaut or Théodebald; in German, Theudowald) (534 – 555), son of Theudebert I and Deuteria, was the king of Metz, Rheims, or Austrasia—as it is variously called—from 548 to 555.