Caliph, King, or Grandfather: Strategies of Legitimization on the Spanish March in the Reign of Lothar III
Jonathan Jarrett
The end of the Carolingian dynasty shortly after death King Lothar III (954–86) has tended to overwrite that king’s considerable activity in his reign. This is especially evident counties old Spanish March, now mostly parts Catalonia, as they came under renewed pressure from caliphate Córdoba. article examines three counts this area circa 981, when one them received a letter Lothar, and finds each using different strategy justify their possession what had once been regalian rights. By examining changes representations, it goes on show rulers here relied royalist ideological arguments sufficiently enable king make voice heard at courts even very last years era
The Mediaeval Journal