Talk:Carolingian dynasty

If someone were to summarize the Carolingian Dynasty, what would you say?

issues in this article

• French version of this article states that the name carolingian comes from Charlemagne and not from Charles Martel. Where is the truth?
• carlovingian looks like a mistake
• there are two contradictory explanations of the origin of the term carolingian in this article, one near the top and the other at the bottom

Theywere called Carlovingians until the XIXth century. -- lucasbfr ^talk 16:31, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok I looked on a lot of french websites, the consensus is that the name is from Charlemagne, even if Charles Martel is the father of the first Carolingian king. Since that is what I learned at school too. I don't modify the article though, I have a reasonnable doubt since the explanation of the name seems pleasible. The French school textbooks however credit Charlemagne (Ref: [1]) -- lucasbfr ^talk 16:56, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok I'm editing the article to reflect that change -- lucasbfr ^talk 19:42, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I removed the following, since I found no evidence of this on the Internet and there is no source:

The term Carolingian (and the variant "Carlovingian") is from Medieval Latin Carolingi (var. "Karolingi", "Carlovingi", "Karlovingi"), formed from the Latin "Carolus" and the Germanic suffix "-ing", meaning "people of" or "descendants of." Hence, the term literally means "descendants of Charles Martel."

-- lucasbfr ^talk 19:47, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Descendants

What about dynasties with claims of origin from Carolingians? It seems House of Flanders claim to be Carolingian branch. I think it was not lonely in this question.212.86.230.114 (talk) 09:57, 17 April 2008 (UTC)