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- Northmen raids becoming highly disruptive and Charles two prong strategy: friendly with leaders, fortresses on rivers controls Seine in 860s but Aquitaine hit particularly badly.
- Scandanavians impact serious: lost royal treasury, 845 7000 to Ragnar, prestige loss not defending own, loss royal control diminishing interventions in Neustria
- 859 unifying factor peasants protect themselves between Seine and Lire, landlords sew them thinking rebellion, reminded how powerful social control the King is.
- Allowed imposition of taxes, also Edict of Pitres suggesting landlords should protect their peasantry trading benefit volume transactions, not just plunder increased debasement of coinage with large numbers of transactions. 864 Charles realm wide coinage reform revaluation inter and intra region coinage distribution peasants, king and aristocracy benefit.
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