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Title: Travels in the Pyrenees : including Andorra and the coast from Barcelona to Carcassonne
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: O'Connor, Vincent Clarence Scott, 1869-
Subjects: Andorra -- Description and travel France -- Description and travel Pyrenees -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : J. Long
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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broughthere, as elsewhere, not peace, but a sword. The Aryan Gothswere soon embroiled with the Catholic Franks. Their KingAlaric, grandson of Theodoric, w^as killed in battle at Vouilleby Clovis ; and Carcassonne, their strong fortress, in whichthey had placed all the treasures of the Crown, was besieged.There followed a disputed succession. Narbonne was sackedby Gondebaud, the Burgundian King, but restored to theVisigoths by the forcible intervention of Theodoric the Great,King of the Eastern Goths. Roussillon became, as she hasever been throughout her history, a highway of the con-tending armies, until in 526 Amalric was acknowledged asKing of the Visigoths of Septimania, with his capital atNarbonne. But his ill-treatment of his wife Clotilde, thesister of Childebert, King of the Franks, brought down uponhim the wrath of that monarch, and woe upon his unhappycountry. Narbonne was once more pillaged, and Roussillonravaged by the Prankish invaders. • a » J * i » » 1 J \ > s ^
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IN A CATALAN VILLAGE (page 34) To face page 40 A FRENCH DEPARTMENrS MIGHTY PAST 41 The capital of the Visigoths was in consequence movedacross the Pyrenees, and Roussillon, with Narbonne, wasreduced to the status of a frontier province on the marchesof France. So weak, however, was the central power thatin 567 Liuva, the Governor, set himself up in rebellion, andwas proclaimed its King. The Franks were finally drivenback from Carcassonne, and the Visigoths were left mastersof Septimania. In 589 they renounced their Aryan heresy,but not without dissension and violence amongst themselves.The Aryan Bishop Autalacus raised an outbreak at Narbonne,in the course of which numbers of the Catholic clergy wereslain. His principal followers were eventually put to death,and he himself died of mortification. The centre of the Visigothic power was now at far Toledo,and the monarchy became elective. In 672 Vamba wasproclaimed King; but his lieutenants at Narbonne and inthe Roussillon declared their

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