People in the Middle Ages

CLOVIS

• Born 466 A.D. and died 511 A.D.
• First King of the Franks
• Conquered most of western and northern Roman Gaul

Charles Martel

• Born 688 and died 741
• Military leader and statesman
• He was got title of King of Franks in 737

LEIF ERICCSONN

• Born 970, died 1020
• Norse Viking Explorer and Norse King
• Converted to Christianity
• Explored Northern America in 1000

William the Conqueror

• Born 1028, died 1087
• Duke of Normandy
• Won in war against Harold
• King of England

Eleanor of Aquaitaine

• Born in 1122, died 1204
• Very powerful woman
• Ruled Aquitaine the became queen of France

Blanche of Castile

• Born on March 4, 1188 died November 27, 1252
• Became queen of France in 1223
• She was the wife of Louis VII 

Christine de Pisan

• Born 1364, died 1430
• Italian and French medieval author
• Wrote about heroic and courages women, and love poetry
• First women successful in writing in France

Joan of Arc

• Born 1412, died 1431
• Encouraged soldiers during the Hundred Years' War
• Was captured for ransom, taken to trial, imprisoned, then killed
• She was beatified in 1909, then canonized in 1920