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Let's say Louis the Pious lives longer and the Carolingian empire stays united until at least the 1600s, with territory including modern France, Lombardy, and Catalonia at the very least. Would this prevent French, Italian, Occitan, and Catalan from diverging? I've seen it written that 11th...

Yeah. Anyway, this is my first post here, and it looks like people get banned for pretty much no reason, but I had this idea and I'd like to discuss the possibility of it actually happening. The premise is that the Roman Empire collapses sooner, probably during the Crisis of the 3rd Century...

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...

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...

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...

So OTL the rebellions of his sons paved the way for Louis the Pious's Francian Roman Empire to be divided into 3, subsequently causing imperial power to decline until Otto of East Francia (Germany) conquered Italy and claimed the imperial mantle & title. In your opinion what's the best way to...

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...

assuming Lothair dies as a kid, or never exists at all, could something like this be the eventual division of the Carolingian Empire? what might that entail for the two portions of Frankia? Would this result in a vague france wank, given the wealth of Italy, or will they be doomed to even...

Just as the title sais, how would the land develope differently under this families rule ?

How would they split the country? What about Italy?

So OTL both West and East Francian kingdoms initially fractured before reforming, whilst Middle Francia split leaving nearly a century before Italy/Lombardy and its occasional imperial title were added to Otto's East Francia. So, how do we keep East and West Francias divided while imperial...

OTL, Charlemagne conquered much of Germany, but his attempts to oust the Umayyad from spain failed. Now, i don't know much military history at all, much less during this period, but what if his fortunes were reversed? What if Charlemagne was able to establish a strong base in Iberia, but was...

Ignoring that amusing title, the Franks were a notable Germanic tribe in gaul, centered around the northern portion. They were never the masters of gaul, the power mainly being in Visogothic Aquitaine. But the Franks were no slouches either, with strong generalship being prominent in many of...

IOTL, the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent had close ties with continental Europe due to its strategic location at the Strait of Dover. Indeed, it was one of the first areas of Anglo-Saxon England to be christianized, receiving Frankish missionaries as early as the 5th century. So, my question is...

Clovis I was the first Frankish king of any weight to throw around post-Roman Europe. His campaigns were crucial for the expansion of the Frankish state against threats such as the Alemanni on the Rhine frontier, the Soissons state in Neustria, and lastly, the Visigothic kingdom's province in...

After lurking for so long in these forums, I've decided to make my own timeline. The style is obviously heavily inspired by Planet of Hats' amazing and awesome Al-Andalus timeline, and I thank him here for his contributions. ---------------- "Right action is better than knowledge; but in order...

Okay, so this might be a stretch, but since so much of the man is clouded in myth, I think it might happen. What if Rurik, not long after his conquest of Novgorod (but before taking Kiev) meets a group of Catholic missionaries from Francia and decides for political reasons to convert to...

OTL the Carolingian realm was divided into 3 then Middle Francia itself divided. The resultant toing and froing lead to the Kingdom of France (West Francia) and the Holy Roman Empire (containing Arelat, Italy, and East-Francia/Germany). What plausible ATL divisions and subsequent divisions and...

I made a map about a rebellion of the Romano-Gaulish population and "upper class" against their Frankish rulers, forming a kingdom which claimed to be the heir to Rome. This rebellion would happen sometime in the seventh century. The primary reason why I created this map was too see how the...

According to the Royal Frankish Annals, in the year 810 Charlemagne was preparing to invade Denmark, but the death of their King Gudfred caused Charlemagne to call off the invasion. What if Gudfred lived, and the Franks invaded Denmark? If Charlemagne conquered Denmark, it seems possible that...