Caroligians - Vikings and Frankish Empire
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Churchmen drawn towards military involvement a Kings gve laity church lands

Northmen not new phenomenon in 845

Danes look to the Frankish empire – generation afte Charlemagne’s death in 814  - visible walth grew as imprial, aristocratic power grows

820 Viking attacks on Francia – Aquitaine – war-lords began toeclipse merchants in the Frnak’s view of the northmen,.

Danish-Saxon frontier was fraight, but not unti 880 another larg-scale military engagement.

Frisia Franks weak spot as needed a decent fleet to protect it – Frnaks ack this – attacked when Louis the Pious’ position undermined by his sons.

Frisia arterially linked to the political centre of the Frankish empire – other important regions were Neustria and Aquitaine

840 – Louis the Pious dies and massive dispute for power between sons – 841 Lothar grants Northmen Firsia – many decades in Viking hands

Aquitaine: aristocracy heavy defeats at Fontenoy 841 weakened defensive capacity.

Franks wealth increased, Danish familiarity with this and desire and power to raid it also increased – Frankish empire’s capacity to defend it diminished.  Critical point.

As previously civil war followed by Northmen raids – brunt onto Charles the Bald after 840 – attack Nantes 843, protection money and ravaging – northmen on the Loire beyond 900.

Humble captives taken for ransom – 866 Charles the Bald agrees with thr Vikings any unfree peasants were to be handed back by the Franks or ransomed”

Other Notes in this Category

1. After Charles the Bald
2. Aquitaine
3. Caroligians - Vikings and Frankish Empire
4. Charlemagne and the Imperial Coronation of 800
5. Crisis 829 – 30
6. Ecclesia Francorum
7. Evaluation of Charles the Bald in relation to his predecessors
8. Frankish Gaul to 814 - Paul Fourace
9. Frankish Kingdoms 814 – 898 – The West
10. Germany In The Early Middle Ages – Reuter
11. Judith Herrin – Carolingian Innovation From The Formation Of Christendom
12. Lateran Synod 769
13. Populus Francorum
14. Regnum and Regna
15. Scandinavians and Others
16. The Emergence Of The East Franksih Kingdom 800 – 43
17. The end of Carolingian Expansion - Timothy Reuter
18. Varities of Viking Impact - Seine

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