Neustria
Sign in to saveNeustria was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks during the Early Middle Ages, in contrast to the eastern Frankish sub-kingdom, Austrasia. It initially included land between the Loire and the Silva Carbonaria, in the north of present-day France, with Paris, Orléans, Tours, Soissons as its main cities.
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Neustria was the western region of the early medieval Frankish Kingdom, centered around areas in what is now northern France with major cities like Paris and Tours. It matters as a key territorial division of Frankish power, existing in contrast to the eastern sub-kingdom of Austrasia and playing an important role in Early Medieval European political history.
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Key facts
- Country.native_name
- Neustria, Neustrasia
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Kingdom of Neustria
- Country.common_name
- Neustria
- Country.era
- Early Middle Ages
- Country.status
- Part of Kingdom of the Franks
- Country.government_type
- Feudal hereditary monarchy
- Country.event_start
- Battle of Soissons
- Country.year_start
- 486
- Country.event_end
- Capetian dynasty established
- Country.date_end
- 1 June
- Country.year_end
- 987
- Country.p1
- Kingdom of Soissons
Article
11 sectionsContents
- Name
- Merovingian kingdom
- Carolingian subkingdom
- Carolingian march
- Merovingian kings
- Mayors of the palace
- Carolingian sub-kings
- Robertians
- Historiography
- References
- Further reading
Neustria was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks during the Early Middle Ages, in contrast to the eastern Frankish sub-kingdom, Austrasia. It initially included land between the Loire and the Silva Carbonaria, in the north of present-day France, with Paris, Orléans, Tours, Soissons as its main cities.
The same term later referred to a smaller region between the Seine and the Loire rivers known as the regnum Neustriae, a constituent subkingdom of the Carolingian Empire and then West Francia. The Carolingian kings also created a March of Neustria which was a frontier duchy against the Bretons and Vikings that lasted until the Capetian monarchy in the late 10th century, when the term was eclipsed as a European political or geographical term.