What is "frankish"

Usage examples of "frankish".

In the face of Frankish fear and hatred of the Plantagenets, the coup could not be managed with sheer Angevin bluntness nor Capetian naivett.

It was thus from northern Frankish territory that the ancestors of the later Carolingian dynasty, of Pepin and Charlemagne, came.

Hassan, has sent us tidings of your rescue from the power of the accursed lord of the Mountain, Sinan, and that you are now safe in our city of Emesa, guarded by many thousands of our soldiers, and with you a woman named Masouda, and your kinsmen, the two Frankish knights, by whose skill in arms and courage you were saved.

The first real success was not until 826, when the Jutish pretender to the throne, Harald, was converted by the Emperor, Louis the Pious, and the Frankish monk Ansgar.

From long hours spent with dusty charters and annals, she eventually constructed an immense multivolume account of the founding of the Frankish monarchy and its relationship with the early medieval assemblies.

As Abdul tried to explain, those Frankish nobles had adopted the customs of the peoples they had conquered.

While their brothers were taught to ride in the Frankish fashion, to bear arms, and to hunt, the girls learned to spin, weave, and acquire every womanly accomplishment so that they would not fritter away their time in idleness.

Among kings there had been that old Frankish one who drove back the Saracens—.

The old Frankish pieces he hoped to invoke were all religious music, devotionals, and had to be understood and utilized as such, as sacred music.

He has worked with great care to suborn the men who lead the Frankish auxiliaries in Syagrius&rsquo.