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Title: Medieval Europe from 395 to 1270
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bémont, Charles, 1848-1939. (from old catalog) Monod, Gabriel Jacques Jean, 1844-1912, (from old catalog) joint author Sloan, Mary, (from old catalog) tr Adams, George Burton, 1851- (from old catalog) ed
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Publisher: New York, H. Holt and company
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d for duringthe entire tenth century between the kings of France andGermany, and to remain thereafter the stake in a quar-tel which still goes on between the two countries. In the six kingdoms Just enumerated, a sole prince,Arnulf, belonged to the house of Charlemagne; otherswere indirectly attached by marriage; certain ones, likeEudes of France, were entirely foreign to the family.The great emperor lived only in popular imagination. 26. Political Divisions of France.—The formation ofthe kingdoms of Lorraine and Aries restricted Franceproper to the limits outlined by the treaty of Verdun.It still included the former historic divisions: (1) Francia,between the Scheldt, the Meuse, and the Seine; (2) Neus-tria, between the Seine and the Loire, with the additionof parts of the counties of Tours and Blois to the southof the latter river, but diminished by the loss of Brittany, p^ fii M p-i , r/ S ^i- M a) ^ UJ a> PS ■a- O H-t j3 „ M o 00 ^ te c« H (yj> <u £ ^ r#^ _) ►J o
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FORMATION OF THE KINGDOM OF NAVARRE. 227 that acquired independence under Kominoe in 843, whoannexed also the counties of Rennes and Nantes; (3)Aquitaine, between the Loire and the Garonne; (4) Gas-cony, which annexed the Bordelais and Agenais under itsnational dukes, unfaithful tributaries; (5) Septimania, orGothia, with the Spanish march; (6) Burgundy, situatedto the west of the Saone, but which was not a part of theBurgundian kingdom. 23. Formation of the Kingdom of Navarre.—Beyond thePyrenees the Gascons of Navarre had asserted their in-dependence as early as 850; the kingdom of Navarre,founded in 880 by Fordun the Monk, was the seventh ofthe kingdoms built from the ruins of the Carolingianmonarchy. Thus on every side aristocracy was triumph-ant; governors of provinces usurped royal power, andgreat strides were made towards the establishment of thefeudal regime. The movement was merely accelerated bythe Slavonic, Hungarian, Saracenic, and Norse invasions. 228 THE LAST CAROLINQIA

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