The Franks

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, The Franks has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Dan Carlin (Nov 2021). Discussed as a significant tribe that moved into the territories ruled by the Western Roman Empire.

The Franks were a Western European people who began in the third century as a group of Germanic tribes near the Lower Rhine River, but gradually became a multilingual, Catholic Christian people, who controlled a large territory both inside and outside the former Roman Empire. Much of what is now the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and in a broader sense much of the population of medieval Western Europe, could eventually be described as Frankish, depending on the context.