Frankish Empire

Frankish Empire is an empire located in Western Europe. It is the most powerful and influential country in the French region and represents the last remnant of the Frankish Carolingian Empire.

From 1444 onwards, Francia faced internal conflicts caused by the overwhelming defeat in the Franco-Yberian War and the death of the Emperor and his only son at the Battle of Saraqusta.

Lore
The Frankish Empire is an enduring but troubled kingdom, born in the 5th century AD by the Frankish barbarians and driven by the desire to establish order. The efforts of the legendary Charles Martel, Pepin the Short and Charlemagne led to the rulers of Francia being declared emperors. Unfortunately, a large number of issues would start to form cracks within the state. After the death of Rex Magnus Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious, most Carolingian emperors would begin their reigns with accumulated crises and rough territorial partitions, all the while in the shadows of their ancestors. When the reign of Carlos the Fat in the 9th century brought a time of problems and the need to legitimize his son Bernard, these cracks began to appear.

After Bernard's reign - a patchwork effort to protect his vast Carolingian properties - his sons plunged Francia into the war to determine who the emperor would be, causing decades of conflict. Livid nobles and clerics responded by electing the German king Otto Liudolfinger as emperor, instead of Pepin or Lotário Carolíngio. To avoid a repeat of the last civil war, Emperor Otto and his successors did their best to contain the outspoken influence and erode the Carolingian power base. The Ottoman dynasty was not destined for a place in the sun, however. They were eclipsed by the kingdom itself that they sought to subdue and disappeared in the annals of history.

Although the Carolingian dynasty recovered the emperor, his misfortunes were far from over. After great humiliation came the Franco-Yberian War of 1443, where despite all the power of the Empire and the help of Nova Carthago and Italy, only ruin was ahead. The war reached its peak in the bloody Battle of Saraqusta, which turned out to be as shocking a defeat for the Franks as their victory in Tours, 700 years earlier. The emperor and his son were dead, and the mortified armies of Nova Carthago retreated in disbelief, returning to the territory of Nova Carthago on the Iberian peninsula to be on the defensive.