Karling

plural Karlings

1. alternativeAlternative form of Caroling (“a descendant of Charles Martel; a Carolingian”)

   The undisputed reign of the Karlings in Gaul, in western France, ends with the deposition of Charles the Fat.

   1859, The Edinburgh Review, volume 109, page 500

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   After the election of Odo of Paris to the Western Kingdom, there followed about a hundred years of shifting to and fro between his new family and the old family of the Karlings.

   1874, Edward A. Freeman, General Sketch of History, New York, page 130

   [...] and when the Karlings, with their middle class cultivation, subdued the effete line of the Meerveh, they spoke Latin as freely as Frankish, and the names they bore had softened; [...]

   1884, Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names, London, page 456