In 965, Count Arnulf the Great of Flanders died, leaving a small child as his only heir. In the wake of his death, the West Frankish King Lothar annexed his southern lands for the crown. This paper examines how and why Lothar was able to succeed in this. By the 950s, the Flemish count was diplomatically isolated and facing threats to his southern border. Arnulf attempted to ally with Lothar to remedy this, basing his claim to alliance on their links of kinship via descent from Charles the Bald. Lothar supported Arnulf during his lifetime, but after his death sought to conquer part of his lands for himself. Moreover, he supported his own candidate for the Flemish regency, Arnulf’s nephew Baldwin Baldzo, over Arnulf’s candidate, his son-in-la...
Preoccupied with the politics at the royal court of Charles VI of France, Philip the Bold, Duke of B...
Entre 1477 et 1493, l’État bourguignon traversa la plus grave crise de son existence. Face à Louis X...
Relations between England, Brittany and France in 1483-5 were of crucial importance, leading to Fren...
In 965, Count Arnulf the Great of Flanders died, leaving a small child as his only heir. In the wake...
A Survey of the Nobility in the Bailiwick of Arras in Charles the Bold's Times. The 1474 survey giv...
International audienceThe events of the year 1066 in England are often reduced to a competition betw...
In the middle of the 11th century, the Ardennes and its immediate surroundings, on the borders of th...
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Monastic immunities have been much studied in recent years, but the ...
John of Luxembourg became widely known as a legend, which authors of chronicles started to depict i...
Archduke Albert of Austria was one of the most important figures in the Spanish monarchy of the Aust...
Philip, the third son of king Amyntas and Eurydice acceded to the throne in dramatic conditions at t...
Anglo-Flemish Signiorial Strategies after 1066. The Honour of Chocques and the Béthune Family. In a...
In late January and early February 985, two royal diplomas were drawn up at the royal estate of Mühl...
The Counts of Flanders were among the most powerful and respected medieval sovereigns in Western Eur...
Alain Marchandise, Liège's Bishop-Prince and the Hainaut Earls of the Avesnes and Wittelsbach Houses...
Preoccupied with the politics at the royal court of Charles VI of France, Philip the Bold, Duke of B...
Entre 1477 et 1493, l’État bourguignon traversa la plus grave crise de son existence. Face à Louis X...
Relations between England, Brittany and France in 1483-5 were of crucial importance, leading to Fren...
In 965, Count Arnulf the Great of Flanders died, leaving a small child as his only heir. In the wake...
A Survey of the Nobility in the Bailiwick of Arras in Charles the Bold's Times. The 1474 survey giv...
International audienceThe events of the year 1066 in England are often reduced to a competition betw...
In the middle of the 11th century, the Ardennes and its immediate surroundings, on the borders of th...
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Monastic immunities have been much studied in recent years, but the ...
John of Luxembourg became widely known as a legend, which authors of chronicles started to depict i...
Archduke Albert of Austria was one of the most important figures in the Spanish monarchy of the Aust...
Philip, the third son of king Amyntas and Eurydice acceded to the throne in dramatic conditions at t...
Anglo-Flemish Signiorial Strategies after 1066. The Honour of Chocques and the Béthune Family. In a...
In late January and early February 985, two royal diplomas were drawn up at the royal estate of Mühl...
The Counts of Flanders were among the most powerful and respected medieval sovereigns in Western Eur...
Alain Marchandise, Liège's Bishop-Prince and the Hainaut Earls of the Avesnes and Wittelsbach Houses...
Preoccupied with the politics at the royal court of Charles VI of France, Philip the Bold, Duke of B...
Entre 1477 et 1493, l’État bourguignon traversa la plus grave crise de son existence. Face à Louis X...
Relations between England, Brittany and France in 1483-5 were of crucial importance, leading to Fren...