HIST-102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Nursling, Herstal
10 Oct 2020
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By 687, pepin of heristal, then the patriarch of the carolingian clan, found himself strong to undertake the conquest of neustria, the neighboring administrative province, which made him the de facto ruler of all northern france. The merovingian ruler in whose name pepin governed was now little more than a puppet- king. The carolingians had a further advantage apart from talent and ambition: they had luck. For several consecutive generations, each leader of the clan had only one legitimate heir, which meant that their consolidated holdings never dissolved into the splinter princedoms that the merovingian royal realm had become. Their luck nearly ended with pepin of heristal, though, since he left two young sons behind him. But pepin had also fathered a bastard son who, at pepin"s death, was already grown to manhood: his name was charles martel (charles the hammer which suggests the essence of his personality).
