Karling

The undisputed reign of the Karlings in Gaul, in western France, ends with the deposition of Charles the Fat.

After the election of Odo of Paris to the Western Kingdom, there followed about a hundred years of shifting to and fro between his new family and the old family of the Karlings.

[...] and when the Karlings, with their middle class cultivation, subdued the effete line of the Meerveh, they spoke Latin as freely as Frankish, and the names they bore had softened; [...]