During the late 8th and early 9th centuries, the Franks under their Carolingian rulers took up the cause of reconquest along the Mediterranean littoral.

Amidst all this, there never was a time when any Carolingian ruler saw the clergy as such in the guise of a challenge to secular power.

During the 10th century the Catalan counts became increasingly independent of the Carolingian rulers.

The support of the Mayors of the Palace and later, the early Pippinid and Carolingian rulers, was important to Boniface's success.

Carolingian rulers didn't just receive them as a given: rather, they created, recreated, shaped them for themselves.

It occurred mostly during the reigns of the Carolingian rulers Charlemagne and Louis the Pious.

From the fall of the Lombard Kingdom of Italy until 952 Gemona was under Carolingian rulers.

Carloman I of Austrasia(706/710 - 17 August 754) was a Carolingian Frankish ruler.

Bernard Bachrach gives three principles for Carolingian long-term strategy that spanned generations of Carolingian rulers: "The first principle.

Twice more in the 860s Vikings rowed to Paris, leaving only when they acquired sufficient loot or bribes from the Carolingian rulers.