Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . hammedan rule. The Saracenic invasion will be related in a subsequent chapter. 37. The son of Charles Martel, Pepin, succeeded hisfather as Mayor of the Palace ; but under him this absurd arrangement was ended. He shutup the puppet-king in a convent, and was himself made kingof the Franks and anointed such by the Pope a. d. the second, or Carlovingian, dynasty began. Now,Pepins son and the inheritor of his crown was that veryKarl, or Cha
Outlines of the world's history, ancient, mediæval, and modern, with special relation to the history of civilization and the progress of mankind .. . hammedan rule. The Saracenic invasion will be related in a subsequent chapter. 37. The son of Charles Martel, Pepin, succeeded hisfather as Mayor of the Palace ; but under him this absurd arrangement was ended. He shutup the puppet-king in a convent, and was himself made kingof the Franks and anointed such by the Pope a. d. the second, or Carlovingian, dynasty began. Now,Pepins son and the inheritor of his crown was that veryKarl, or Charles, who is known in history as Charlemagne ;and about him and his doings we shall learn more fullyhereafter. 4. BEGINNINGS OF ENGLAND, 38. We must now look for a moment at another seriesof events happening in an obscure corner of the Angio-Saxononce great empire of the West, and see how the conquest,foundations of the nation that afterwards rose to be Eng-land were laid. The Roman troops had been withdrawn 226 MEDIAEVAL HISTORY. from the province of Britain about half a century before thedownfall of Rome, and the Britons, who belonged to the. theoriginalHomeOFTHt English Celtic race, were left to shift for themselves. About themiddle of the 5 th century various Teutonic tribes belongingto the Low-German stock, and coming from the old Low-German lands by the Elbe and the Weser, invaded Britainand won for themselves new homes there. They knewnothing and cared nothing for the language or arts ofRome, and they did not, like the Franks and Goths, adoptthe language and religion of the Romans. These swepteverything before them, and the native Celtic Britons werekilled, enslaved, or driven to the mountain regions of Walesand North Britain. 39. Among these Low-German invaders there were threeThe three main tribes, — the Angles, Saxons, and Ju^ Y\\& name Jute has left no memorial in Eng- land ; but the English people are still often spoken of asbelonging to the Saxon race,
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