So Pepin was chosen king at a gathering of the Frankish nobles in the Merovingian capital Soissons, and anointed and crowned. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Frankish, however, was his habitual tongue. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Charlemagne (800) called Alcuin from York to instruct princes and nobles at the Frankish court. 李贝.西洋科学史.
There was a tradition of election also in the early Frankish and German kingdoms. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It was not a difference of race or temperament, it was a difference of language and tradition that split these Frankish peoples asunder. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.