Karl der große or Charlemagne?

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by soopaman2

Franks are Germanic. Clovis was the man who set it up, then when the Merovingian dynasty fell due to weird traditions. They had a puppet king, and the "mayor of the Palace" who really ruled. Pepin went to the Pope and got holy agreement, that the man who truly rules deserves to be king (divine right).

He (legally under divine right from the Catholic Church) overthrew the "fake" and established the Carolingian Dynasty, which is famous today. It also propelled Catholicism to being a huge force in early feudal politics.

I think if you are from Europe, or New Worlders from Europe (like me), then you got a lot of German in you, they overran the continent when the Western Roman empire fell.

Franks are indeed Germanic, most of modern Europe is, but the name itself Frank and Francia was what became the modern name of France. Even Germany calls France 'Frankreich' IIRC.
I'm from England, so there's definitely Germanic lineage here, as well as...well, just about every other race from Europe.