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While the Battle of Tours in 732 is seen as a pivotal moment in halting the Muslim expansion into Western Europe, it actually may be overshadowed in importance by the earlier Battle of Toulouse in 721. According to historian Ian Meadows, after the swift conquest of Iberia into the Umayyad...

I know this scenario may be ASB, and I’m not an expert on Medieval European history, but hear me out. Let’s say that the Umayyad raiders win the Battle of Tours, and Charles Martel is killed. The Umayyads use this as an opportunity to expand their borders past Septimania into more of Southern...

Let’s say our POD is that the Visigoths win the battle of Vouille. There’s also plenty of PODs a few years before Vouille if you prefer. The overall war ends in a stalemate, and Clovis dies before he can go for round two, leaving his kingdom divided amongst his sons who are temporarily too busy...

The Merovingian dynasty which was founded by the legendary Frankish warrior Merovech had ruled the Franks for about three centuries, from 450 to 750 AD. This dynasty as I've read was far different in its practices than it's successors, the Carolingians. The Merovingians had based their rule...

In this timeline the Merovingian rulers are able to maintain relative over Francia and stop the greedy Mayors of the Palace and bring stability to their realm. Clovis II watched Grimoald the former Mayor of the Palace get dragged away to his execution "rotten wrench" he thought. He had...

challenge is to get germania unified by 200 AD from rhine to don rivers, from franks to goths edit : POD must be after Teutoburg forest but unification must be complete by 3ard century and it must coexist with Roman empire of atleast 395 borders

On 890, Edward the Elder of England would marry Ermentrude of France to have another marriage tie with West Francia, the marriage would result in two children, Aethelstan(893) and Edith(898), Ermentrude would die in 899 which would cause Edward the Elder to remarry to Aelflaed, his second wife...

What is the earliest point at which the Low Countries can be a unified, independent state? And how would this be accomplished? Ideally, I'm searching a way that leads to an independent state (so no unification under a foreign power) where Old or Middle Dutch is the main language or at least...

The Franks had an established tradition of splitting up their realms between the sons with the Kings seen as ruling the same realm . However these failed to produce a scenario similar to that of the HRE and West Francia . In your Opinion , what would be best way to keep the respective realms of...

Charles III was the last continuous Carolingian Emperor/Holy Roman Emperor of the Carolingian Dynasty due to the fact that he had no legitimate heirs to pass his title and power. Though he had a son named Bernard with an unknown Mistress he was never legitimized and there was some speculation...

Of course as this is completely different from our history it might be difficult, but does anyone have any unique ideas on what could happen in Germany if the Franks fail to conquer Gaul? Let's say Clovis fails to unite the Franks or something of that nature (not my area of expertise lol). Any...

An interesting incident of our timeline is that Clovis I, the Merovingian conqueror of Gaul, converted from paganism to the Nicene Orthodoxy of his wife, Clotilde, rather than the Arianism espoused by the Gothic and Burgundian kingdoms to his south. He did this in 496, significantly before...

...with a point of divergence no earlier than around 300 AD. It was not long after this point that the Migration Period began in earnest, after all, and the Germanic peoples played prominently into this upheaval. But then again, they did a fairly poor job of actually expanding their language...

Starting from 476 AD (The fall of the Western Roman Empire), make another Germannic tribe other than the Franks conquer Europe. Bonus points if it is one of the lesser known Germannic people, such as the Rugii or Alemanni.

A/N: Hello all! I am back with another new TL. This one however will cover a different perspective from most of my TLs, as this will be focused on the Ostrogoths following from Totila. This will also be alot more long form than my Roman ones, as it will cover over centuries, much like Freedom's...

Countless threads have been dedicated to the "Charlemagne-Irene" empire uniting, history changing marriage, now let's assume that after Charlemagne's death the empire is broken up according to Frankish custom, what effects would this break up have on medieval history? Let's assume that Louis...

The Battle of Vouillé was, IOTL, a devastating defeat for the Visigothic Kingdom, which not only lost its king, Alaric II (killed in action), but was also forced to give up also half of its territory to the Franks, including the capital city of Toulouse. According to Wikipedia, the kingdom went...

What if, instead of being Latinized, the lands known as Franks were Germanic? How will this affect French history?

The challenge is to make this development happen after The Fall of Rome You may choose any PoD as back in West and East Rome split.

So let's say that not only do the Basques loot the Frankish baggage train,but that Charles I, never to be known as Charlemagne, is either stuck in the rearguard and killed, or that he gets killed from a lucky arrow or something, and subsequently, huge portions of the the army are lost due to the...