Family Continuity and Territorial Power in West Francia
Jelle Lisson
The political history of early medieval West Francia is often conceived as the story influential lineages. This article explores territorial power and social status “house Vermandois” in ninth tenth centuries, suggesting that (a) there only rare proof large-scale continuity between different generations lineage, (b) no evidence accumulation wealth into hands family was chief purpose actions individual “Herbertians,” (c) traditional picture a “house” indebted to modern historians confused by post–tenth-century sources.
Journal of Family History|Lirias (KU Leuven)