Friday, June 15, 2012
RANDOM EBNCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
FRANCE-
....the older germanic conditions died out of salian life, that appear. an indistinct form of feudalism in the germania of tacitus had changed. the salian law from the 5th c, kingly office recognized, the election preserved, but hereditary election pool. king appoints rulers of provinces. a graf or reeve administrator. blah rills, around king is his comitatus, justice-mall or hundred-court. feudalism came in contact w/ tenacious gallic temper, + master organization of the romans. franks settlement slow
+ unorganized. the common franks took what they could get. franks liked the country, not cities. church more i cities. church gallo-rroman.
before he died(511) clovis destroyed the old chieftans + knights who rules gaul. he took the place of romans + goths. the visagoth went south. BURGUNDIANS became tributary. north border between gaul + germany gone + 5 c's servants to germany.
germanic prevailed, when Hl/clovis gone. his 4 sons all became kings, each 1 getting a section, theodorik, the oldest took the NE, austrasia, capital metz. hildebert, eldest of hlotehild, central, paris area + paris capital. hlodomir, the next, king of orleans also had west along the loire. the youngest alothar, old salian land. capital soissons. wars wars hlodomir killed + bro's took his land + on hildeberts death 558, hlothar became king of the franks. in 555 he had taken austrasia. hlothar's rule brings neustria. 2 frankish branches became distinguishable-german austriasians + the gallic nestria. almost all of modern france. neustria into monarchy of modern type. roun hlothar, reeves + or counts; the clergy made their court to him; the 'lendes' now become the kings "trusty men"; no a few gallo-romans held office under him.
o hlothar's death(561), the frankish kingdom divided into 44-austrasia, paris, soisons, + burgundy- the oldest son, sigebert the north east, when haribert, king of paris died in 567, helperik, king of soisons seized it + became king of neustia + now 3 kingdoms, blah blah blah. more between autrasian + neutria, burgundy on either side. brunhild, wife of sigebert,, king of austrasia + fredegond, the low born mistress of helperik, king of neustria, before end of 6th c blah blah power blah mayor of the palace. not in burgundy-more roman. benedictines from italy, xtianity new flower. culture!
FRANCE-
....the older germanic conditions died out of salian life, that appear. an indistinct form of feudalism in the germania of tacitus had changed. the salian law from the 5th c, kingly office recognized, the election preserved, but hereditary election pool. king appoints rulers of provinces. a graf or reeve administrator. blah rills, around king is his comitatus, justice-mall or hundred-court. feudalism came in contact w/ tenacious gallic temper, + master organization of the romans. franks settlement slow
+ unorganized. the common franks took what they could get. franks liked the country, not cities. church more i cities. church gallo-rroman.
before he died(511) clovis destroyed the old chieftans + knights who rules gaul. he took the place of romans + goths. the visagoth went south. BURGUNDIANS became tributary. north border between gaul + germany gone + 5 c's servants to germany.
germanic prevailed, when Hl/clovis gone. his 4 sons all became kings, each 1 getting a section, theodorik, the oldest took the NE, austrasia, capital metz. hildebert, eldest of hlotehild, central, paris area + paris capital. hlodomir, the next, king of orleans also had west along the loire. the youngest alothar, old salian land. capital soissons. wars wars hlodomir killed + bro's took his land + on hildeberts death 558, hlothar became king of the franks. in 555 he had taken austrasia. hlothar's rule brings neustria. 2 frankish branches became distinguishable-german austriasians + the gallic nestria. almost all of modern france. neustria into monarchy of modern type. roun hlothar, reeves + or counts; the clergy made their court to him; the 'lendes' now become the kings "trusty men"; no a few gallo-romans held office under him.
o hlothar's death(561), the frankish kingdom divided into 44-austrasia, paris, soisons, + burgundy- the oldest son, sigebert the north east, when haribert, king of paris died in 567, helperik, king of soisons seized it + became king of neustia + now 3 kingdoms, blah blah blah. more between autrasian + neutria, burgundy on either side. brunhild, wife of sigebert,, king of austrasia + fredegond, the low born mistress of helperik, king of neustria, before end of 6th c blah blah power blah mayor of the palace. not in burgundy-more roman. benedictines from italy, xtianity new flower. culture!
