mar 16, 640 - Rise of power of the Carolingians
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Pippin I a Carolingian mayor who gained power and passed this on to his heirs, were in charge of the palace and had extraordinary amounts of power gained by the merovingian kings. They used this power, combined with marriages at crucial positions and millitary victories over the merovingians to rise to power.
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