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Kingdom of Neustria Neustria, Neustrasia | |||||||||
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511–751 | |||||||||
Status | Part of Kingdom of the Franks | ||||||||
Capital | Soissons | ||||||||
Common languages | Old Frankish, Vulgar Latin (Gallo-Roman), Latin | ||||||||
Religion | Christianity | ||||||||
Demonym(s) | Neustrian | ||||||||
Government | Feudal hereditary monarchy | ||||||||
King | |||||||||
• 511–561 | Chlothar I (first) | ||||||||
• 741–751 | Childeric III (last) | ||||||||
Mayor of the Palace | |||||||||
• 639–641 | Aega (first) | ||||||||
• 741–751 | Pepin III (last) | ||||||||
Historical era | Early Middle Ages | ||||||||
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751 | |||||||||
Currency | Denier | ||||||||
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Today part of | France |
Neustria was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks during the Early Middle Ages, in contrast to the eastern Frankish kingdom, Austrasia.[1] 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 population was therefore originally largely Romanised.
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.
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