are you dumb? Clovis was a Merovingian, not a Carolingian. That's my whole point?
Merovingians were Salian franks, ruling Neustria, while the Ripuarian Franks were ruling Austrasia. Charlemagne and the Carolingians were from a prominent Austrasian family, which is also why they relocated the Frankish seat of power from the Belgian/French Neustria to Austrasia.
You are dumb, I just posted the facts. Carolingians were not ripurian, they were literally named after Charles Martel, like it says in the article. Quite amazing how you keep denying facts and ignoring sources I post.
Read my wikipedia post about the carolingians, nowhere does it state they were ripurian. You're coping so hard
lol, how about you look at where the Carolingians come from. They literally come from the Mosel region, which was Ripuarian Frankish.
You posted the facts and can't even interpret them.
Anyways, none of this matters, Charlemagne spoke the Ripuarian dialect of Old High German, we have actual evidence for that. He didn't speak Walloon or Flemish.
Dude everyone knows Charles Martel and Pepin the Short (Charlemagne's granddad and dad) were born in Liège Belgium. We are not sure for Charlemagne himself. Maybe he was born in Aachen, but the borders were not as hard as today.
But the romanized branch of the Carolingians is the origin of Walloon culture in the 9th century.
no, we don't know where they were born, we don't even know when they were born.
And if anything, Charles Martel could have been born in Herstal, a town outside of Liege.
We do know that the ancestors of the Carolingians came from the Mosel region, and that the seat of power was the Austranasian part of the empire, with Charles Martel gathering his troops from the Eifel and Cologne, to fight against the French Neustrians.
