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	Soissons - LoveToKnow 1911 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Soissons is the seat of a bishop and a subprefect, and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a communal college and higher ecclesiastical seminary.
		It was at Soissons that Clovis married Clotilde, and, though he afterwards settled at Paris, Soissons was the capital of his son Clotaire, and afterwards of Chilperic I., king of Neustria.
		Charles of Bourbon, count of Soissons (1566-1612), son of Louis, prince of Conde, whose political vacillations were due to his intrigues with Henry IV.'s sister Catherine, became grand master of France and governor of Dauphine and Normandy.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /Soissons (1719 words)

	Soissons
		The kingdom of Soissons, which ceased to exist in 558, when Clotaire I reunited all the Frankish states, came into being again in 561 when the death of Clotaire led to a redivision of the territory.
		The Bishop of Soissons as senior suffragan of Reims had the privilege during a vacancy of the metropolitan see to replace the archbishop at the ceremony of anointing a King of France.
		Hilduin, abbot (822-30) in 826 obtained from Eugene II relics of St. Sebastian and St. Gregory the Great; he caused the relics of St. Godard and St. Remi to be transferred to the abbey; he rebuilt the church which was consecrated 27 August, 841, in the presence of Charles the Bald and seventy-two prelates.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/soissons.html (1494 words)

	Soissons
		The city of Soissons in the Aisne département, Picardie, France on the Aisne River[?] is about 60 miles northeast of Paris and is one of the most ancient cities of France.
		Eventually, the kingdom of Soissons disappeared in 613 when the Frankish lands were amalgamated under Clotaire II.
		Today, Soissons is a commercial and manufacturing center with the 12th century cathedral of Saint-Gervais et Saint-Protais de Soissons[?] as one of its most important historical buildings.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/so/Soissons.html (88 words)

	Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1291)
		Baldwin IV died in 1185, at the age of twenty-five, without having married, and left the kingdom a prey to discord and exposed to the attacks of Saladin.
		Incapable of defending his kingdom against Saladin, Guy was made prisoner at the battle of Tiberias (4 July, 1187), which was followed by the capture of Jerusalem (2 October), and purchased his liberty by yielding Ascalon to Saladin.
		But in the very interior of the kingdom the power of the king was checked by numerous obstacles, and the sovereignty belonged less to the king than to the body of feudatories whose power was centered in the High Court, composed of vassals and rear-vassals.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/latin_kingdom_of_jerusalem.html (3016 words)

	Soissons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its Celtic name (and later borrowed in Latin) was Noviodunum, meaning "new hillfort"; from 457 to 486, under Aegidius and his son Syagrius, Noviodunum was the capital of the "Kingdom of Soissons," until it fell to the Frankish king Clovis I in the Battle of Soissons.
		In 744 the Synod of Soissons met at the instigation of Pippin III, and Saint Boniface, the Pope's missionary to pagan Germany, secured the condemnation of the Frankish bishop Adalbert and the Irish missionary Clement.
		Today, Soissons is a commercial and manufacturing center with the 12th century Cathedral of Saint-Gervais et Saint-Protais and Saint Jean des Vignes Abbey as one of its most important historical buildings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Soissons (249 words)

	Syagrius
		Syagrius was the son of Aegidius (the last magister militum per Gallias, who had founded a "kingdom" with Soissons at its centre).
		Having been defeated at his capital, he made the mistake of escaping to Alaric II, the Visigoth, based at Toulouse, but instead of refuge he found himself repatriated to Clovis, and was murdered in 487.
		His brief regime is of interest principally because he represented the last vestige of native Gallo-Roman[?] authority in Gaul: in fact he was known to the barbarians as the "King of the Romans".
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/sy/Syagrius.html (119 words)

	Domain of Soissons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This area is often incorrectly called the Kingdom of Soissons or the Kingdom of Syagrius.
		At any rate, the Romano-British settlements in Armorica bordered Soissons to the west, and there was certainly trade between them, especially as they were the last outposts of Roman civilization in that part of the world.
		The western kingdom of Neustria continued to be governed from Soissons until all Franks were once more unified under the Neustrian king Clotaire II in 613.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kingdom_of_Soissons (553 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Neustria - AOL Research & Learn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		, western portion of the kingdom of the Franks in the 6th, 7th, and 8th cent., during the rule of the Merovingians.
		It comprised the Seine and Loire country and the region to the north; its principal towns were Soissons and Paris.
		The dynastic rivalry involved Neustria in almost constant warfare with the eastern portion of the Frankish kingdom, which became known as Austrasia.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/neustria/20051206230609990001 (208 words)

	The Academic Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The cathedral of Soissons is in northeastern France, 60 miles to the northeast of Paris.
		Soissons Cathedral is a tall, 97 1/2 foot Gothic building contemporary with Chartres Cathedral, the kind of impressive physical structure that still dominates the surrounding landscape.
		As Caviness points out, the role played by Soissons in the affair, and the fact that the kingly Tree of Jesse is hemmed in by windows depicting to the left, the Last Judgment and to the right, the Fall from the Garden of Eden, would suggest that the window was an expiatory offering.
	www.emory.edu /ACAD_EXCHANGE/1999/sept99/pastan.html (779 words)

	Frankish Kingdom Of The Merovingians
		The Frankish kingdom was another such barbarian power which are first in what is now Belgium, and which spread southward to the Loire, but it developed for more strength and solidarity than any of the others.
		He divided his kingdom among his four sons, but the Franks retained a tradition of unity in spite of this division, and for a time fraternal wars for a single control united rather than divided them.
		In the August of that year the present writer visited Soissons, and crossed the temporary wooden bridge that had been built by the English after the Battle of the Aisne from the main part of the town to the suburb of Saint Médard.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles32n/history-line-3.shtml (767 words)

	Breton timeline
		Clovis defeats Sygarius son of Aegius and annexes the kingdom of Soissons to the Frankish kingdom.
		Kingdom divided among his four sons: Theodoric by a concubine, and Chlodomer, Childebert I, and Lothair I by his wife Clotild.
		Death of Lothar, King of the Franks in December and was buried in the church of Saint Medard.
	members.aol.com /michellezi/timelines/breton.html (2194 words)

	SOISSONS - Online Information article about SOISSONS
		The wealthiest of all the abbeys in Soissons, and one of the most important of all France during the first two dynasties, was that of St Medard; on the right bank of the Aisne, founded about 56o by See also:
		It was at Soissons that Clovis married Clotilde, and, though he afterwards settled at Paris, Soissons was the capital of his son Clotaire, and afterwards of See also:
		kingdom of Soissons was incorporated with that of Paris.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SIV_SOU/SOISSONS.html (1842 words)

	First Europe Tutorial - Frankish Empire
		The Merovingians had a poor sense of government and administration, and the Frankish practice of dividing the kingdom equally among the king's sons was their greatest liablity in their attempt to create a unified Frankish state.
		In 511, Clovis' kingdom was divided among his four sons, creating the new political units of the Kingdoms of Reims, Orléans, Paris and Soissons.
		The Slavs and the Avars posed a threat on the northeastern frontier, the Lombards on the southeastern frontier and the Muslims on the southwestern frontier.
	www.ucalgary.ca /applied_history/tutor/firsteuro/frank.html (1375 words)

	Wikinfo \| Clotaire I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the death of his father in 511 he received as his share of the kingdom the town of Soissons, which he made his capital, the cities of Laon, Noyon, Cambrai and Maastricht, and the lower course of the Meuse.
		He was the chief instigator of the murder of his brother Clodomer's children in 524, and his share of the spoils consisted of the cities of Tours and Poitiers.
		He took part in the various expeditions against Burgundy, and after the destruction of that kingdom in 534 obtained Grenoble, Die and some of the neighbouring cities.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Clotaire_I (384 words)

	Book Two Powerful king
		Caesar was very troubled by this news, and by the troubles which had unfortunately occurred in the Esperial kingdom (That is, in the kingdom of Italy, which was named after a star which is close to that region, or because of a king who reigned in that country, who was named Hesperus).
		Lothar was carried to Soisson, and honorably buried in the sepulchre of the abbey of Saint Medard, as he had planned.
		Thus the kingdom was divided into four parts, just as their father and their uncles had divided it after the death of Clovis.
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/grch2a.htm (17391 words)

	Langued'oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Known as a ruler of a district in Gwent (King of Ergyng), he also seems to have had continental connections - what is quite tantalizing is that a neighbour (in Britain) who ruled the Gewisse in the same era had a Saxon version of the same name: Cerdic.
		They were swiftly absorbed by their more aggressive and numerous Frankish neighbors, but the name of their Kingdom survived as a Merovingian state with a sporadic autonomy.
		The central Carolingian Kingdom in the division of 843, Lorraine (Lotharingia) quickly became a contested region between its French and German neighbors.
	www.hostkingdom.net /Languedoil.html (2903 words)

	Soissons — FactMonster.com
		Soissons was an old Roman town and early episcopal see.
		Clovis I defeated the Roman legions at Soissons in 486, and the city was the capital of several
		Austrasia - Austrasia, northeastern portion of the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks in the 6th, 7th, and 8th...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0845821.html (224 words)

	France (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This was a Frankish Kingdom located in Eastern Gaul, roughly modern Champagne and the Moselle-Maas basins, with its capital at Rheims.
		Conquered by the Franks in 532, their kingdom was granted autonomy at times thereafter, before being absorbed completely within the later Frankish Empire.
		This was a Frankish Kingdom located in Northern Gaul, roughly between the Scheldt and Loire rivers, with Paris as its capital..
	www.hostkingdom.net /france.html (1281 words)

	ooBdoo
		Many insisted it was the Kingdom of Soissons.
		Clovis, son of Childeric, became king of the Salians in 481, ruling from Tournai.
		Clovis annexed the kingdom of Cologne in 508.
	www.oobdoo.com /wikipedia/?title=Mainz (3952 words)

	Battle of Soissons (486) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.netlab.uky.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Battle of Soissons in the year 486 was a milestone for the Franks (under Clovis I) in their attempt to establish themselves as a major power.
		It was fought between the Franks and the remains of the Western Roman Empire (the inaccurately named Kingdom of Soissons), under Syagrius.
		The central location of Soissons in Gaul and its largely intact infrastructure allowed a level of stability in the years of the Völkerwanderung, but also made the area tempting for the Frankish neighbours to the East.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Battle_of_Soissons_(486) (330 words)

	Descent from Pharamond
		On Clovis’ death in 511, the kingdom was split between Chlodomer (Orleans), Childebert (Paris), Chlotar (Soissons), and Theuderic (Metz).
		Until 597, his kingdom was administered by his mother, Queen Fredegund, but when she died that year he bagan to rule for himself, now 13 years old.
		In 623, he gave the kingdom of Austrasia to his young son Dagobert I, which was a political move giving Pepin I, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, and Bishop Arnulf of Metz, the two leading Austrasian nobles, semi-autonomy for their loyalty to Chlotar.
	alignment2012.com /pharamond.html (5352 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		773-774 Conquest of the Langobard kingdom (seizure of Pavia) by Charlemagne.
		The Langobard kingdom merged with that of the Franks.
		Emperor Lothair I received the Middle Kingdom, which stretched from the North sea across Burgundy to the Gulf of Faeta and included the imperial cities of Aix-la-Chapelle and Rome; Louis the German received the East Frankish Kingdom and Charles II the Bald the West Frankish Kingdom.
	coursesa.matrix.msu.edu /~fisher/hst373/chronology/highrelated.html (399 words)

	The History of the Franks
		Kingdom of Childebert, capital of Paris, went to Charibert.
		Kingdom of Lothar went to Chilperic, ruled from Soissons.
		Kingdom of Theuderic went to Sigibert, ruled from Rheims.
	www.duerinck.com /franks.html (3622 words)

	Chlotar I , King of the Franks
		Other names for Chlotar were Chloderic, Chlothar and Clotaire I. Merovingian king of Soissons from 511 and of the whole Frankish kingdom from 558, who played an important part in the extension of Frankish hegemony.
		The youngest of Clovis I's sons, Chlotar shared in the partition of his father's kingdom in 511, receiving the old heartlands of the Salian Franks in modern northern France and Belgium.
		After the death of his brother, Clodomir, in 524, he murdered his nephews and shared the kingdom of Orléans with his two remaining brothers, Childebert I and Theodoric I. The deaths without heirs of the latter's grandson, Theodebald, in 555 and of Childebert in 558 brought all the Frankish lands finally under Chlotar's sway.
	www.delmars.com /family/perrault/7097.htm (459 words)

	The Roman Empire A.D. 476 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After his death, the kingdom inherited by his numerous sons was destroyed by a revolt of the German tribes in 454.
		A Kingdom of Soissons had been established in north-western Gaul under a renegade Roman general.
		After the Vandals sacked Rome they built a fleet which dominated the Mediterranean and made possible the establishment of a maritime kingdom in the western part of that sea and in northern Africa and the western tip of Sicily.
	www.fll.vt.edu /FLL/GH2724/PRIV/history/romanemp/romemp476.htm (596 words)

	Chilperic I, King of Soissons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When Chlotar, King of the Franks, died in 561 he divided the kingdom among his four sons: Chilperic received Soissons.
		Sigebert advanced all the way to the city of Soissons, exiled Chilperic's son Theudebert, and forced a peace treaty out of Chilperic.
		In 567, their brother King Charibert I of Paris died, the kingdom was partitioned among the two and their other brother King Guntram of Burgundy, and Chilperic immediately invaded Sigebert's legal share, but was defeated.
	www.ghg.net /shetler/oldimp/087.html (315 words)

	Columbia Encyclopedia- Austrasia - AOL Research & Learn
		, northeastern portion of the Merovingian kingdom of the Franks in the 6th, 7th, and 8th cent., comprising, in general, parts of E France, W Germany, and the Netherlands, with its capital variously at Metz, Reims, and Soissons.
		It originated in the partition (511) of the realm of the Frankish king Clovis I among his four sons after his death.
		Austrasia was constantly troubled by dynastic rivalries between its rulers and those of the neighboring kingdom of Neustria.
	reference.aol.com /columbia/_a/austrasia/20051205185609990004 (201 words)

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