The Bosonids or Rising to Power in the Late Carolingian Age
Constance B. Bouchard
The Carolingian age, that is the ninth and tenth centuries, was a period in which several powerful lineages rose rapidly to power royal or even imperial title-and often lost again nearly as rapidly. Besides Carolingians themselves, these included early Capetians, Rudolphian kings of Burgundy, Berengarian Italy, Ottonians Germany, Provence, Bosonids. Bosonids are not well known modern scholars other family groups mentioned above. Indeed, I know no work on them English.' And yet, spite their rather amusingsounding name, were short run most successful rise any lineage time, producing first non-Carolingian king western continent over century when
French Historical Studies