Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Merovingian Kings Family Tree" video.

  1.  @axolotl-guy9801  : In Germany there are still descendants of those frankish tribesmen, which not moved to France/ Frankreich. These are the inhabitants of Hesse, Rhineland- Palatinate, Saarland, the southern part of Northrine- Westphalia and the northern parts of Bavaria and Baden- Württemberg. They speak fränkischen Dialekt. So the german version of Frankish ( the Fränkisch of today) can' t be wrong. And we germans speak names ending with ,rich' , for example Erich, Roderich, with a german ,ch' sound and not as ,k'. The two families ,Merowinger' and ,Karolinger' should not been seen as french or german. They belong to both nations, but not to a single one.
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  2. And after being a descendant of Adam and Eve, you are also related to me!;-)
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  3. Was his name Clovis or Chlodwig, because the frankish tribe is germanic?
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  4.  @amehak1922  : Of course a nickname, because his name was Charles and he was tall.
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  5. In 911 the last descendant of Karl dem Großen in Eastern Frankish Empire ( today Germany) called Ludwig das Kind ( the child) died. The german bishops and nobles elected Konrad l as first ,german' king. But he was also a member of the fankish/fränkischen tribe, so he could be a relative of the last carolingian king. So some germans think that Heinrich l ( a saxon) elected in 919 is the first german king.
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  6. Charles de Gaulle was also called Charlemagne.
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  7. axolotlguy: a) Before 1873 no Standard German existed, only german dialects, forming three dialect groups. My ( i am Brittas boyfriend) dialect is swabian dialect , which belongs to Hochdeutsch or Oberdeutsch dialect group ( bavarian dialects in Bavaria, Austria and Southern Tyrol in ltaly, swabian - alemannic dialects in parts of german states Baden - Württemberg and Bayern, austrian state Vorarlberg, german part of Switzerland, french Alsace and Liechtenstein. When i travel with my car an hour northwards, i am on fränkisch tribal territory, they speak a different dialect. Fränkisch is spoken in parts of Bayern, Baden - Württemberg, Nordrhein - Westfalen, mainly in Hessen, Saarland, Rheinland - Pfalz and the few remaining Lorraine german speakers ( if there are still ones). B) Frankish empire before split in 843 included current France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, northern Italy and Most of current Germany. In this territories had been spoken forerunners of current french/italian/ german/ dutch ( flemish) languages, and latin as clerical/ administrative language. German Name for current France is for centuries Frankreich ( realm of the Franks).
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  8. axolotl-guy: I have an Asperger disorder. My point about territories belonging to Frankish Empire is, that you can not declare this Empire as french or german, as it was done in a more nationalistic era.
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  9. The ,Merowinger' are french??? The Frankish tribe is a german tribe, they have beaten my tribe, the Alemanic tribe in the battle of Zülpich 496. The Frankish tribesmen still live in the north oft my tribe in Germany. Not all members of the Frankish tribe moved to France.
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  10.  @marshalljohnson7690  : The Duke of Lorraine/ Herzog von Lothringen would be currently the head of the Habsburg family. When in 1740 emperor Karl Vl died without a son, his son in law, the Duke of Lorraine became the next emperor, but the French king wanted to have his duchy Lorraine for recognizing him as the next emperor, with this unfine behaviour the french got Lorraine ( there had also been some innergerman trouble because of the election). So the current name of the Habsburg family is Habsburg- Lothringen, without a ,von' , because in 1919 all austrian noblemen lost the ,von' in their names. ( In Germany they still have the ,von' in their names, but not all germans with a ,von' are former noblemen).
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