Posted: Mar 11, 2020 4:35 pm
Svartalf wrote:Willy is NOT considered to be the first king of england, except by you and ignoramuses of the same class.
and he was not 'well connected to the carolingians' either. a) the Carolingian dynasty had stopped ruling France more than 50 years before his birth. b) he was not even well connected with the king, the relations of the duchy of Normandy with the crown were often stormy, and as a bastard, he would have been shunned by most well born nobles who could avoid dealing with him.
But what you are failing to understand, is that the dynasty got overthrown, with the consent of the papal
and becoming the de facto rulers of the Franks as the real powers behind the Merovingian throne. In 751 the Merovingian dynasty which had ruled the Germanic Franks was overthrown with the consent of the Papacy and the aristocracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolingian_dynasty