Family names - The Karolinger dynasty?

[The Yogi]

I noticed whenever a HRE Prince becomes a general he's family name is "Karolinger". Shouldn't that be "Hohenstauffen"?

Can this be edited?

[Cardinal]

This is a wild stab in the dark, but what if the name Karolinger originates from the Dynasty of the founder of the HRE, Charlemagne. You can sort of envisiage that the latin Carolus, becomes gemanized to Karl, and then, if you mix the two, you are not far from Karolinger, or as it would be in English, "The Karls"!!!

As I said, a wild stab in the dark.

[The Yogi]

Well, its probably that. Only, the Carolingian dynasty died out in the 9th century. There is also a Merovinger family, a Frankish Royal house that I belive died out even before the Carolingians.

I discovered how to edit this, BTW. Its the names file under the Loc-directory. Only edit the right hand column!

If you want to be really, really faithfull to history http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif then you'd rename "Karolinger" to "Salinger" (spelling?), the ruling dynasty in 1087 was the "Salian" (or Frankish) line. They were replaced by the Hohenstauffen in the 12th century, so I guess that should replace Merovinger (assuming the Royal bloodlines are the first German names in the names file).

But me, I simply change Karolinger to Hohenstauffen. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif

[This message has been edited by The Yogi (edited 10-31-2002).]

[Magraev]

The danish "Ericson" is also a bit silly (not all royalty is a son of Eric after all).

I have no idea what was used though, but "Gyldenløve" would sound cool (anacronistic maybe?).

PS: "Gyldenløve" means golden lion and was a prominent noble name in the later part of the middle ages. Prolly not in the 1000-1200 period though.

[This message has been edited by Magraev (edited 10-31-2002).]