Between court and counts: Carolingian Catalonia and the aprisio grant, 778-897
Cullen J. Chandler
In the late eighth century, Charlemagne issued a new kind of land grant in Septimania and Spanish March to refugees fleeing Muslim Spain. This grant, aprisio, was made from fiscal deserted areas included special rights immunities. Previous scholars have interpreted aprisio economic military terms as mechanism entice settlers region order make productive provide warriors defend Frankish frontier. article suggests that political concerns also may played an important role, arguing attempt by Carolingian kings limit power exercised very powerful marcher counts.
Early Medieval Europe