State · 481 – 843

Francia

A state of 481 – 843 — 362 years in Europe. It replaced Western Roman Empire and Germania Secunda and followed Alamannia, Frisian Kingdom and Gaul. It was replaced by Carolingian Empire and followed by West Francia, East Francia and Middle Francia and 1 more. The atlas records 87 things within it — wars and battles 24 · unrest and atrocity 1 · natural disasters 1 · treaties 2 · people 59. Its line of rulers holds 56 people, 18 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 362 years; 481 – 843
Rulers: 56; the king of Franks
Most ground: 1.31 million km²; in 806
Within it: 87; recorded rows

Map: Francia in 806, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Francia in 806, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 1.31 million km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Francia in 462, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Francia in 806, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Western Roman Empire · replaces · 285 – 476
Germania Secunda · replaces
Gaul · follows
Frisian Kingdom · follows · 500 – 734
Alamannia · follows · 300 – 911

After it

Carolingian Empire · replaced by · 800 – 887
East Francia · followed by · 843 – 962
West Francia · followed by · 843 – 987
Middle Francia · followed by · 843 – 855
Samo's Empire · followed by · 631 – 658

Rulers

The line of king of Franks.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Childeric I	458 – 481	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Clovis I	481 – 511	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Charibert II	629 – 632	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Chilperic of Aquitaine	632 – 633	1 year	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	child
Childeric II	662 – 673	11 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Theuderic III	673 – 673	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Childeric II	673 – 675	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Theuderic III	675 – 679	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling
Dagobert II	676 – 679	3 years	killed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
Theuderic III	679 – 691	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Clovis IV	691 – 695	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Childebert III	695 – 711	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Dagobert III	711 – 715	4 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Chilperic II	715 – 719	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Chlothar IV	717 – 719	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Chilperic II	719 – 721	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Theuderic IV	721 – 737	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Childeric III	743 – 751	8 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	another recorded relative
Pepin the Short	751 – 768	17 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Carloman I	768 – 771	3 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Charlemagne	768 – 814	46 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Louis the Pious	814 – 840	26 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child

56 rulers, 18 with terms dated as terms, covering 458 – 840. Median reign 4 years. 7 of 21 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

28,500 km² in 481, 1.29 million km² in 843; at its largest 1.31 million km² in 806. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

400 – 4998 rows · 2 wars and battles

Clovis I · ruler · 466 – 511
Chlothar I · ruler · 498 – 561
Childebert I · ruler · 497 – 558
Theuderic I · ruler · 485 – 534
Clotilde · ruler · 474 – 545
Battle of Tolbiac · battle · 496
Battle of Soissons · battle · 486
Chlodoric the Parricide · ruler · 485 – 508

500 – 59919 rows · 3 wars and battles

Gregory of Tours · religious leader · 538 – 594
Chlothar II · ruler · 584 – 629
Chilperic I · ruler · 537 – 584
Charibert I · ruler · 520 – 567
Guntram · ruler · 532 – 592
Childebert II · ruler · 570 – 596
Theudebert I · ruler · 500 – 548
Sigebert I · ruler · 535 – 575

and 11 more in the atlas.

600 – 69925 rows · 2 wars and battles

Charles Martel · commander · 688 – 741
Dagobert I · ruler · 611 – 639
Saint Boniface · politician · 675 – 754
Dagobert III · ruler · 698 – 715
Childebert III · ruler · 678 – 711
Clovis II · ruler · 635 – 657
Chlothar III · ruler · 650 – 673
Theuderic III · ruler · 657 – 691

and 17 more in the atlas.

700 – 79928 rows · 14 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

Charlemagne · ruler · 747 – 814
Louis the Pious · ruler · 778 – 840
Pepin the Short · ruler · 714 – 768
Battle of Tours · battle · 732
Lothair I · ruler · 795 – 855
Carloman I · ruler · 751 – 771
Childeric III · ruler · 718 – 754
Theuderic IV · ruler · 713 – 737

and 20 more in the atlas.

800 – 8996 rows · 3 wars and battles

Louis II of Italy · ruler · 825 – 875
Berengar I of Italy · politician · 840 – 924
Regino of Prüm · religious leader · 840 – 915
Hungarian invasions of Europe · war · 820 – 970
Battle of Fontenoy · battle · 841
Battle of Roncevaux Pass · battle · 824

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood362 years
stood longer than 78% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held1,313,700 km²
held more ground at its peak than 87% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.8
had more wars on record per century than 92% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median4 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record56
has more rulers on record than 98% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 3 causes the record names and 4 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 445 – 879, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 806, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q146246 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.