The Peace of God, the ‘weakness’ of Robert the Pious and the struggle for the German throne, 1023-5
Theo Riches
The author of Deeds the Bishops Cambrai accused Berold Soissons and Warin Beauvais overstepping boundaries episcopal authority usurping royal rights by promoting Peace God attributed their initiative to weakness King Robert Pious. This paper argues that was misrepresenting situation hide vulnerability bishop during succession Conrad II. Instead, Warin's peace council patronized Pious a symptom French assertiveness in period 1023–5. reasons for author's distortions are be found significance kings rallying support on local regional level.
Early Medieval Europe