Franks
The Franks were a cultural people that inhabited the Kingdom of Francia following the dissolution of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE.
History
After the Western Roman Empire collapsed, the Franks conquered the former Roman province of Gaul under the Merovingian Dynasty, led by King Clovis I.
The Merovingians thus established the Kingdom of Francia in the 6th century.
King Dagobert I built the Abbey of Saint-Denis in 630 for Benedictine monks, and was the first Frankish king to be buried in the crypt beneath the Basilica of Saint-Denis.
In 732, the Mayor of Austrasia, Charles Martel, defeated the Umayyad Caliphate's armies at the Battle of Tours, eventually ousting the Merovingians from power, and establishing the Carolingian Dynasty.
On Christmas Day 800, Charles Martel's grandson, Charlemagne was crowned Emperor of Rome by Pope Leo III, establishing the Carolingian Empire - the largest single political entity in Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire. This put him on a collision course with the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople, who saw this as barbarian pretensions to imperial rule.
In 804, Charlemagne received a letter from the Northumbrian monk, Alcuin of York, about the existence of the Order of the Ancients, how they were a parasitic secret society that worshipped a race of precursor beings called the Isu, and of their obsession with sages, Isu reborn as humans. What Alcuin was unaware of was the fact that Charlemagne was himself leader of the Order.
By the time Charlemagne died in 811, his son, Louis the Pious, was made emperor, but after he died, the Carolingian Empire was divided between his sons,[1] one of which was Charles the Bald, who ruled over West Francia. During this period, Paris was invaded by Vikings in 845, which was famously led by Ragnar Lothbrok, and later in 885–886 when ruled by Charles the Fat.[2]
Louis II of Italy appointed the Order's Paladin, Fulke, to decipher Isu text that was transcribed by a palatinus during Charlemagne's reign, ultimately leading to her arrival in England, her encounter with and subsequent torture of Sigurd Styrbjornsson, culminating in her eventual death at the hands of Sigurd's adopted sister, Eivor Varinsdottir in 875.
In 884, Charles the Fat began a series of military campaigns against the Norse in Francia, with plans to conquer England thereafter. This led to one Toka Sinricsdottir to appeal to Eivor for help. Eivor, now jarlskona of the Raven Clan, thus took part in the siege of Paris to prevent Ravensthorpe from being conquered by the Franks, eventually leading to the deposition of Charles the Fat from power.
After the death of Charles the Fat, the Carolingian Empire ultimately collapsed, never to rise again, with Odo of France being recognized as King of West Francia.
By the 10th century, the Templars held great influence among the Franks, a situation which prompted the Hidden Ones to move to curtail the Order's reach extending into Norse lands.[3]
Appearances
- Assassin's Creed II (appears in glyphs only)
- Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy
- Assassin's Creed III (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants – Fate of the Gods (mentioned only)
- Echoes of History (mentioned only)
- Assassin's Creed: Valhalla (mentioned only)
- The Siege of Paris (first appearance)
References
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