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THE FIRST VOLUME.

Difficulty of founding a Nation

Difference between a Nation and an Empire

Peculiar Organisation and Teutonic Character of the Franks 3

Clovis, Frank Chief of Tournay, attacks Egidius, the last

Roman Officer of Gaul, and defeats him; the Vase of Sois-

sons; Clovis's Marriage with Clotilda; his Conversion and

Baptism by St. Remi

He defeats the Burgundians at Vouglé; Rivalry of Clovis and

Death of Clovis, 511; Succession of his Four Sons; Accession

of Theuderich, King of East France; Clothaire reunites the

Frank Empire, 558

Division of the Empire into Neustria and Austrasia ; Difference

of Habits and Laws between them

The Major Domûs; Rivalry of Sigebert and Fredegonde

Assassination of the former; Brunehild's Quarrel with the

Austrasian Noblesse

Her Death, and the Accession of Clothaire the Second to the

whole Empire, 613; his Son Dagobert in Austrasia, 622;

his Expedition against the Slavons

Rise of the Family of Pepin ; Battle of Loixi, 680, between

Austrasians and Ebroin, Mayor of Neustria; Austrasians

They take their Revenge, 687, and under Pepin win the Battle

of Testri over the Neustrians; Descendants of Clovis con-

signed to nullity by the Austrasian Mayors

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Pepin of Heristal, first of the Carlovingians

14

His Son, Charles Martel, once more crushes the Neustrians at

Vincy in 717; Rise of the Austrasian Aristocracy or Chi-

valry; Charles Martel repeoples the West with them 15

Defeats the Arabs at Poictiers -

Batters the Cities of the South ; Labours of the first Mission-

aries beyond the Rhine; they are superseded by Anglo-

Boniface founds the German Church ; Pope Gregory offers

imperial Supremacy to Charles Martel

Charles Martel is succeeded by Pepin, who defeats the South

Germans on the Leck

Pope Stephen applies to Pepin for aid against the Lombards 20

Pepin marches over the Alps and reduces Pavia; he returns in

754, again overcomes the Lombards, and grants the Exar-

chate to the Pope

Death of Pepin, called the Bref, in 768 ; Division of the Empire

between Charles and Carloman ; Charles reduces the Aqui-

He marries the Daughter of Desiderius, King of the Lombards - 23

Death of Carloman, 771; Charles sole Monarch; First Expe-

dition of Charles against the Saxons, 772 -

Marches against Desiderius, proceeds to Rome, and confirms

Pepin's Donation, 772

Charles' organisation of Empire; his Dukes and his Missi ;

Resistance of Witikind; Defeat of Roncesvaux

Saxons lose two Battles, 783; the Huns conquered; second

Visit of Charles to Rome, and his Coronation

Charlemagne, Emperor of the West, 800

Private Habits of Charlemagne

His judicial Arrangements; his mode of Warfare ; Causes of

disunion in his Empire

Charlemagne's Death, 813; His son, Louis the Debonnaire; his

Rise of Feudalism ; Distinction between it and the Social and

Political Principles of Classic Antiquity -

Basis and Peculiarity of Teutonic Institutions

The Monarchy not divine or universal ; Rights in Inequality 35

Causes of the Cessation of Slavery; Rise of the Letes

Division of the Empire by Louis the Debonnaire

Revolt and Murder of Bernard, King of Italy; Struggles

between the Emperor and his Sons

Death of Louis the Debonnaire, 840

Struggle of Germans and French united against Imperialists at

Fontenailles, 841; Defeat of the Emperor Lothaire

Meeting of Strasburg, 842 ; Treaty of Verdun ; Division of Em-

pire into East and West, notwithstanding its nominal

Re-union under Charles the Bald -

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Similarity between Clovis and Charlemagne

Incursion of the Northmen

Resistance to them on the Loire

Robert the Strong, 860

Death of Charles the Bald; Accession of Charles the Fat, 877

Siege of Paris, 886

Election of Eudes as King, 887

Charles the Simple, 897

Rollo does homage to him for Normandy, 911

Robert and Hugh, Dukes of France

Raoul of Burgundy, King, 923

Louis d'Outremer, 936

Emperor Otho conquers Lorraine

Louis d'Outremer tries to get Possession of Normandy

His Son, Hugh Capet

His Competitor, Charles, the last Carlovingian

Who tries to seize the Emperor Otho

Otho invades France, 980

Coronation of Hugh Capet, 987

Importance of Paris as a Centre

Revived Competitorship of Charles

Who is captured and conveyed to Prison

Death of Hugh Capet, and Accession of Robert, 996

Rise of Towns -

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land -

Robert succeeded by Henry I., 1031

Robert the Devil, Duke of Normandy -

Birth of Chivalry

William the Bastard of Normandy

Accession of Philip the First, 1060

Conquest of England -

Religious Controversies

Le Mans and Cambray found Municipalities, 1070-76 -

Preaching of Crusade.

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Council of Clermont; French Nobles assume the Cross, 1095 - 104

March of the Crusaders

Capture of Antioch, 1098

Jerusalem taken, 1099 -

Accession of Louis the Fat, 1108

Louis in England

He humbles the Montmorenci

Reduces the Barons and Castles around Paris

His rivalry with King Henry of England

Combat of Brenneville, 1119

Both Monarchs favour the Liberty of Towns

Charter of Laon

Treaty of Wurtzburg or Worms

Louis extends his Power South of the Loire

His Minister Suger

Death of Louis the Fat, 1137

Louis the Young humbles the Citizens of Orleans

Is crowned at Bourges -

Disaster of Vitry

St. Bernard preaches a new Crusade ; Louis assumes the Cross,

Traverses Asia Minor

He returns to France, 1149

His Divorce with Eleanor of Aquitaine, who espouses Henry of

Rivalry with the Plantagenets

Birth of Philip Augustus, 1165

Louis the Young supports Becket

And Henry's Sons against their Sire

He causes his Son to be crowned

His Death, 1197

Philip Augustus crowned

Difference between Angevin and Capetian

The King's Dispute with Flanders

The English and French Monarchs assume the Cross, 1188

Philip Augustus sets out on the Crusade, 1190

Capture of Acre, 1191 -

Philip's return to France

King's Divorce with Ingeburge, and Marriage with Mary of

War with Cour de Lion

And with King John

King conquers Normandy and takes Rouen, 1204

Truce with England, 1206

Philip's Policy -

The French Court of Peers

State of Languedoc

Nature of Albigensian Heresy

St. Dominick, Founder of the Inquisition

Murder of Castelnau ; Crusade against the Albigenses, 1208 - 176

Destruction of Beziers, 1209

The Viscounty given to Simon de Montfort

Sieges of Lavaur and Toulouse

Battle of Muret ; Defeat and Death of the King of Aragon,
1213

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Simon de Montfort obtains County of Toulouse

Resistance of Raymond

Philip prepares to invade England

Victory of Bovines, 1214

The French King's Son, Louis, takes the Field in England

Is defeated near Lincoln and withdraws, 1221

Death of Philip Augustus, 1223

Accession of Louis the Eighth

Amaury de Montfort resigns to the King his Claim on Toulouse 197

Louis takes La Rochelle, 1224 -

Siege of Avignon

Death of Louis the Eighth, at Montpellier, 1226

Regency of Blanche, Mother of St. Louis

Devotion to her of Thibaud, Count of Champagne

League of the Barons against her

Submission of Raymond of Toulouse, 1229

Establishment of the Inquisition, 1230

Henry the Third invades Brittany

Henry and Louis espouse two Princesses of Provence • 216

Frederic the Second recovers Jerusalem

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