Carolingians
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...govern the territories under the nominal kingship of the Merovingians . In 751, with the knowledge and backing of Pope Zacharias, Pepin the Short deposed the last Merovingian king, Childeric III. To emphasize the importance of the church...period, a landed economy was firmly established. The kings consolidated their rule by issuing capitularies and worked...