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    This document provides a summary of counts, kings, and kingship in medieval Europe between the 8th and 12th centuries. It discusses how counts established power through marriage, warfare, and expanding their territories. As counts grew more powerful by the late 11th century, they developed legal systems and administration. The document also outlines the key roles and sources of power for kings, including defending their people, maintaining peace, protecting the church, enforcing justice, leading military campaigns, and displaying prowess in battle. Finally, it notes how kings derived their right to rule from lineage and coronation rites that elevated their position above counts.

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    This document provides a summary of counts, kings, and kingship in medieval Europe between the 8th and 12th centuries. It discusses how counts established power through marriage, warfare, and expanding their territories. As counts grew more powerful by the late 11th century, they developed legal systems and administration. The document also outlines the key roles and sources of power for kings, including defending their people, maintaining peace, protecting the church, enforcing justice, leading military campaigns, and displaying prowess in battle. Finally, it notes how kings derived their right to rule from lineage and coronation rites that elevated their position above counts.

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    Counts and Kings Cheat Sheet

    by Cúnla (cunla) via cheatography.com/60906/cs/15813/

    Intro Case study: County of Anjou Kingship (cont) A king's power

    Geo affected pol organi​sation and Count Fulk Rechin (end of 11th Eccles​ias​tical rites by clergy: Rested on
    rulership cent) recorded achvmnts of Anointed with holy oil →ability to recruit & lead armies
    Poor roads + forests = limited ancestor Fulk Nerra
    Invested w/ ring and staff →role as supreme judge
    contact to commun​ities Military expans continued in Anjou
    Invested w/ sword and scep​tre John of England failed
    Family units→​pol​itical units late 10th cent and first half of 11th
    10th century kings could style →lost most of Angevin and
    Process of encroa​chment:
    selves as Vicars of Christ exploited his barons
    Counts
    1. secure foothold (mar​riage,
    Derived right to rule from line​age Rulers bound by old law
    Great Euro fams invested in fam warfare, purchase, force/​fra​ud)
    - recounted memories of →subjects could rebel and force
    history, tradit​ions, records 2. good rship w/ church
    predec​essors for legitimacy king to obey law
    c800-1000 New fams won power 3. establish castle
    Model for German emps: →Right of resistance couldn't be
    thru warfare
    4. wait for opport​unity (victory in Char​lem​agne repealed
    Warfare + marriage = expansion
    battle, enemy away, minority →invoked against King John
    and consol​idation of pwr comi​tal: of, belonging to, or
    rule)
    befitting a count or earl Despite hallowed status of old law,
    Gene​alo​gical rolls v popular
    new law was created
    Family legend for others' Counts (cont.) Key roles of kings Announ​cement of new law codes:
    perception of fam
    Change by mid-11th cent. →Roger II of Sicily
    1. Defend the people
    ie Song of Roland
    territ​orial units of counties →Frederick II
    (Cha​rle​mag​ne's reign) 2. Keep the peace
    establshd
    Kings of Sicily - peak royal auth
    →abt Roland & other Frankish 3. Protect the Church
    small pwr blocs abutting each
    warriors at Battle of Roncevaux English kings - control of court
    other 4. Enforce just​ice, punish
    778 criminals German kings delegated auth to
    dvlpmnt of law & stable pol rather
    Literary re-ima​gining incl. Muslims bishops - power to princes
    than expans 5. Lead (and win) military
    as enemy French kings: justice in royal
    Counts needed admin & staff to campaigns
    Probably composed between domain, not outside
    gvrn + exploit resources 6. Display mili​tary prowess and
    c.1040​-1115
    By end of 11th cent. more docs valour

    requiring standing staff rather than


    Royal admin
    ad hoc emplymnt Means of political pursuit
    Personnel involved in running From early 12th cent, sec powers Warf​are​ ​noble identity
    kingdom employed masters from great
    Pre10th cent warriors:$ thru
    Start of 12th century: small admin schools (like uni)
    plundering
    Differed kingdom to kingdom: abut - (v.) to be adjacent; touch or
    Post10th century, other ways to get
    →England: closely governed join at the edge or border
    $
    →Less governed - admin issues Warfare unreliable for pol policy
    Kingship
    charters & collect small tax
    Marr​iag​e​ method pol policy
    Even Eng had small perm admins Violen​ce→​comital authority
    Henry I married English princess
    in early 12th cent God→royal authority
    Strategic marriages good!
    Coronation rites degraded position
    of count (though counts were often
    more powerful than king of France)

    By Cúnla (cunla) Published 16th May, 2018. Sponsored by Readability-Score.com


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