What weapons did the Franks use?

What weapons did the Franks use?

A collection of weapons used by the Germanic tribe called the Franks. These are all of their most typically used weapons: a shield, a spear or Germanic spear, a Frankish spear or angon (this is similar to a short javelin), a sword, a knife, and a short axe for battling in close quarters.

What did the Franks eat?

The only vegetables specifically mentioned are turnips, broad beans, peas and lentils. Lentils are less mentioned in later years, but broad beans and field peas became medieval staples. Hand mills were still common a century later, but larger mills apparently existed among the Franks.

What Armor did the Franks wear?

Some pictorial sources portray soldiers wearing Romanic cuirass and pteryger, while others depict scale armor, but a remark of Notker’s implies that the latter was not usual Frankish military dress. Since some type of body armor was evidently worn, the most likely form would therefore appear to have been the cuirass.

What was a Viking sword called?

Ulfberht swords

What title did the Pope give Charlemagne after he traveled to Rome to protect the Pope?

emperor

What crisis caused the Roman popes to seek protection from the Franks?

The new imperial fiscal and religious policies and limited imperial support against the Lombards drove the papacy to find a new protector. In 739 Pope Gregory III (731–741) sent an unsuccessful appeal for aid to the Frankish mayor of the palace (the effective political power in the kingdom), Charles Martel.

Who was considered the greatest Frankish king?

Charlemagne

Was Pepin the Short really short?

Pepin the Short, also called the Younger (German: Pippin der Jüngere, French: Pépin le Bref, c. 714 – 24 September 768) was King of the Franks from 751 until his death in 768….

Pepin the Short
Reign	741–751
Predecessor	Charles Martel
Successor	Merged into crown
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