 | Term | Definition |
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les rois fainéants |
clovis's descendants who were bad kings |
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parasseux |
lazy |
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les maires du palais |
palace mayors, gv officials |
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charles martel |
gv official who saved france from an arab invasion. father of charlemagne |
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Poitiers |
where charles martel conquered the arabs |
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marteau |
hammer |
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difference between a king and an emperor |
a king has the will of the gods and an emperor is elected |
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Charlemagne |
military chief who was inaugurated by the pope |
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significance of charlemagne's inauguration |
signified the church's decision to place their faith in someone outside the king. a political decision |
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aix-la-chapelle |
capital of the francs |
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missi dominici |
messengers from the master, gv officials who represented charlemagne's authority in the provinces |
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les normands |
vikings who lived in the north and attacked the francs |
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charles le simple |
charlemagne's descendant who made the saint-clair-sure-epte |
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saint-clair-sure-epte |
charles le simple gave the vikings a northern french province named normandy in exchange for peace |
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l'adaptation des normands |
the people of normandy left behind all their traditions and accepted french customs |
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edward the confessor |
king who had no children so upon his death, harold became king which angered guillame |
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guillame le conquérant |
he attacked england in the battle of hastings and won |
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une geste |
an epic |
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ganelon |
roland's soldier who betrayed him |
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durandal |
roland's sword |
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les sarrasins |
arab's who attacked roland |
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un oliphant |
the horn roland used to call charlemagne |
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aude |
roland's fiancee |
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les romans courtois |
a prose for a king |
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un philtre d'amour |
love potion |
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la ronce |
plant that grew next to the tombs of yseut and tristan that never died |
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marie de france |
the queen of france |
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