Valdemar II
Banned
Millions of Franks? Mind you, but the total world population of the time was maybe 200 million, and even if we're generous, that puts the total population of Europe at maybe 40 million (even that feels too high, actually). I mean, I would buy a Frankish total population of about oen million, but millions...? Where did you get that from.
Mostly calculation in late medieval times the area they lived in at this point (on both side of the Lower Rhine) had around 10 million people and I have a hard time seing it as much smaller than a third of that, especially because there's indication that the populations of the late around 1000 may have been higher than in late medieval times, thanks to the warmer climate.