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• Charles kingdom passed to son Louos – Pope John VIII wanted Louis for emperor – granted estates not unusual early reign – but magnates split into factions surrounding two abbots: Abbots Hugh and Gauzlin – died 878 met with Louis the Younger – two separate regna existed those of Charles the Bald and those of Louis the German – persist into next generation Louis the Younger and Louis the Stammered agreed to help respective sons succeed then by hereditary right. Stammerer: Louis III and Carloman – when Louis died he bequeathed regalia and realm to Louis alone.

• Gauzlin, Conrad etc foresaw political extinction and split kingdom invited eastern kings to intervene in the west. – split kingdom and Louis III and Carloman II both consecrated Kings in 879 – Louis got Francia and Neustria (Gauzlin and Conrad) – Carloman (Hugh) Burgunday and Aquitaine. L the Younger had to be bought off with Lotharingian lands which Charles the Bald had capture in 870. Northmew over winter 79 – 80 Boso crowns himself King of Provence – L III and Carloman defeat northmen and Scandinavians – 882 Louis dies chasing young woman into a houe, 884 Carloman dies hunting

• Whole kingdom inherited by Louis the German’s youngest son Charles or Charles the Fat – lacked roots, resources, political friends – Odo filled power vacuum left by death of Gauzlin and Hugh. – vigorous defence against Scandinavian .

• 887 Charles the Fat seriously ill – Odo takes charge after out playing Wido – unexpected victory over the north men – kingdom of the West Franks reconstituted in 888 – separate from other regna and a single entity.

• 9 888 several regna – each regnum king for itself out of indigenous nobility – only legitimate one was Arnulf rejection of a dynastic filter – floodgate of conflicts between equally qualified Frankish magnates – Regino wong not further fragmentation in 888 – Odo succeeds to whoe of Charles the Bald’s kingdom – political entity survives in the West – neither linguistic nor ethnic community- contributed to realm’s identity and viability, an imperial realm (Burgundians, Aquitainians and Franks)

• Odo’s success against Scandinavians crucial in winning him the support that put him on the throne in 888 – core of C of B’s realm menaced by S – ravaged at wil took Rouen in 885 and besieged Paris 885 – 6.

• Odo chasing some rebel and Archbishop Fulk of Rheims consecrated Charles the Straightforward in 89 – Odo upper hand in ensuing trouble – agreed 897 that Charles should succeed him.

• Odo power base in fisclands much lss yjam C of B – no capitularies new and different obstacles: secular principalities on way to becoming hereditarily ruled, gobbling up lay abbacies

• Although Odo lost a lot of land 0 multiple lay abbacies, exploited church resources, prepare himself manfully for wa. Post 892 Scandinavian burden lightened

• No Carolingian blood but imitated with rituals hanks to the church, presence in every part of realms. Odo maintained a presence in every part of the Realm – visiting or receiving letters from. Roya charters worth travelling for. 93 – 7 struggle with Charles the Straightforward – no division on the realm object of struggle to keep realm whole. mooted – C the B promoted use of written word memoralised the present for the future – firmly locked church into state, significance of rituals and ideology – res republica he had nurtured surveyed shocks 9th century – realm of Charles preserved in minds of men and attenuated institutions.

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