The Collaborative International Dictionary
Carlovingian \Car`lo*vin"gi*an\, a. [F. Carlovingen.] Pertaining to, founded by, of descended from, Charlemagne; as, the Carlovingian race of kings. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1781, from French Carlovingien, an alteration of Carolingien (see Carolingian) on model of Mérovingien (see Merovingian).
Usage examples of "carlovingian".
He climbed the thirty-five stairs of marble and porphyry leading up to the basilica, crossed the atrium, passed the center fountain surrounded by porphyry columns and stood at the base of the Carlovingian bell tower, aghast at the dilapidated condition of St.
The Eloi, like the Carlovingian kings, had decayed to a mere beautiful futility.
On the decline of the Carlovingian race, the nobles in every province of France, taking advantage of the weakness of the sovereign, and obliged to provide each for his own defence against the ravages of the Norman freebooters, had assumed, both in civil and military affairs, an authority almost independent, and had reduced within very narrow limits the prerogative of their princes.
The vassal was here more powerful than his liege lord: the situation which had enabled Hugh Capet to depose the Carlovingian princes, seemed to be renewed, and that with much greater advantages on the side of the vassal: and when England was added to so many provinces, the French king had reason to apprehend, from this conjuncture, some great disaster to himself and to his family.
La Bruyere was charged, and even by Voltaire, with attacking the progress of civilization, and with preferring the rude subterfuges of Carlovingian times to the comforts of 1688.
Thus, when he had thoroughly examined my Carlovingian crown piece, he did not hesitate for a moment to offer me five francs for it.
The mutual obligations of the popes and the Carlovingian family form the important link of ancient and modern, of civil and ecclesiastical, history.
But the most essential gifts of the popes to the Carlovingian race were the dignities of king of France, and of patrician of Rome.
These petty sovereigns revered the power or virtue of the Carlovingian monarch, implored the honor and support of his alliance, and styled him their common parent, the sole and supreme emperor of the West.
Bertha derived her female descent from the Carlovingian line, every step was polluted with illegitimacy or vice.
In the decline of the Carlovingian monarchy, the republic of Amalphi promoted the interest of trade and religion in the East.
The gratitude of the Carlovingians was adequate to these obligations, and their names are consecrated, as the saviors and benefactors of the Roman church.
Carlovingian tyrants, they were reserved to feel the injustice, or the favors, of a third dynasty.
Childeric was deposed - jussu, the Carlovingians were established - auctoritate, Pontificis Romani.
Childeric was deposed - jussu, the Carlovingians were established - auctoritate, Pontificis Romani.