Caroling

caroling English Alternative forms en Carling Karling Karoling Etymology en descendant of Charles Martel :bor la-med:Carolingus 1 From en la-med Carolingus, from a en frk - patronymic ultimately composed of en gmw-pro *karil + gmw-pro *-ing. en Carolus -ing<id:diminutive>. Pronunciation en /ˈkærəlɪŋ/ RP Noun A descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian. en 1878 James Cotter Morison Gibbon 163 https://books.google.com/books?id=KTsuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA163 London The wonderful house of the Carolings, which produced no less than five successive rulers of genius […] en 1879 Encyclopædia Britannica 535 https://books.google.com/books?id=SKecXQ-TRmYC&pg=PA535 The Carolings still spoke German, and had small love for France; […] en 1881 George William Kitchin G. W. Kitchin A History of France 112 https://books.google.com/books?id=fo592GZoBhYC&pg=PA112 Oxford It was the first step towards concentrating the attention of Europe on the Carolings as inheritors of the imperial idea; for the idea had never died out, though the emperors themselves were gone. en 1902 Arthur Hassall A Handbook of European History 476–1871 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=_H4UoAcuxBcC THE FALL OF THE MEROVINGS AND THE RISE OF THE CAROLINGS en 1903 Thomas Tout T. F. Tout The Empire and the Papacy, 918–1273 https://books.google.com/books?id=0NlMAAAAYAAJ 72 The Capetian king had a limited localised power, a power that in due course could become national; and if he looked back, like the Carolings, to the traditions of imperial monarchy and order, he had no temptation to look back, as the Carolings were bound to look back, to the imperial ideas of universal dominion. en 1912 C. R. L. Fletcher The Making of Western Europe https://books.google.com/books?id=La-KyT97ZxUC 320 His deposition was followed by one year's reign of Robert I. (see Table 1), and then of Raoul, 923-936, a distant connection of the Carolings. en 1926 Douglas William Lowis The History of the Church in France, A.D. 950–1000 https://books.google.com/books?id=BVVpAAAAIAAJ 28 But one reason for the change can be found in the fact that, through the surrender of regalian rights, the Carolings had become a family without land in a society where landed possessions gave power. Derived terms en Carolingian Carolingianist Translations descendant of Charles Martel Carolingian French: fr Carolinge m Middle French: frm Carlinge m German: Middle High German: gmh Kärling m Latin: la Carolingus m Polish: pl Karoling m-pr See also en Arnulfing Liudolfing Luitpolding Meroving en eponyms