Talk:Carolingian
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If someone were to summarize the Carolingian Dynasty, what would you say?
[edit] issues in this article
- French version of this article states that the name carolingian comes from Charlemagne and not from Charles Martel. Where is the truth?
- carlovingian looks like a mistake
- there are two contradictory explanations of the origin of the term carolingian in this article, one near the top and the other at the bottom
- Theywere called Carlovingians until the XIXth century. -- lucasbfr talk 16:31, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Ok I looked on a lot of french websites, the consensus is that the name is from Charlemagne, even if Charles Martel is the father of the first Carolingian king. Since that is what I learned at school too. I don't modify the article though, I have a reasonnable doubt since the explanation of the name seems pleasible. The French school textbooks however credit Charlemagne (Ref: [1]) -- lucasbfr talk 16:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
- Ok I'm editing the article to reflect that change -- lucasbfr talk 19:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
- I removed the following, since I found no evidence of this on the Internet and there is no source:
- The term Carolingian (and the variant "Carlovingian") is from Medieval Latin Carolingi (var. "Karolingi", "Carlovingi", "Karlovingi"), formed from the Latin "Carolus" and the Germanic suffix "-ing", meaning "people of" or "descendants of." Hence, the term literally means "descendants of Charles Martel."
- -- lucasbfr talk 19:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
