Pagus Attoriensis

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The Burgundian Pagi in the 9th century. The Pagus Attoriensis in orange as Atuyer .

The Pagus Attoriensis was during the reign of the Merovingian an early medieval Gau in the Frankish kingdom of Burgundy , on the behalf of the Frankish kings , a Duke commanded. It was west of the Saône and reached from the Langres plateau to Heuilley-sur-Saône . Its main towns were Dijon , Langres and Fouvent-Saint-Andoche . The Gau got its name from the Franconian tribe of the Chattuarier .

history

During the late period of the Roman Empire , the settlement area of ​​the Lingons between Langres and Dijon was almost completely depopulated due to violent incursions by the Alemanni and repeated plague epidemics . Therefore, after his campaign against the Chattuarians in 294/295, the Roman Emperor Constantius I forced some of the conquered Franks to leave their tribal area in the mountain region of today's Ruhr area and settled them as Laeti around the Langres plateau.

After the fall of the Roman Empire, the Pagus Attoriensis was part of the Burgundian Kingdom for almost a hundred years until the Gau was reintegrated into the Frankish Empire after the Battle of Autun .

The inheritance divisions offered by the Lex Salica led to an increasing weakening of the central royal power in the Merovingian Empire and allowed the Attoarian dukes to expand their sphere of influence in the Burgundian part of the empire. Together with the dukes of Transjurania from the Waltriche clan, who were connected to them by marriage , it was possible to exert a decisive influence on politics in the Franconian Empire as a whole.

Under the rule of the Carolingians , the Pagus Attoriensis was broken up in its original form as a ducat and divided into individual counties, of which the county of Oscheret developed into the most important; the original name of the Pagus was finally retained in the name of the Atuyer region.

Important dukes

See also

literature

  • Eugen Ewig : The Merovingians and the Franconian Empire. 4th supplemented edition, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-017044-9 , p. 133.
  • Reinhold Kaiser : The Burgundy. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-17-016205-5 , p. 108.
  • Reinhard Wenskus: The Hunnish Siegfried - questions from a historian. In: Heiko Uecker (Ed.): Studies on Old Germanic: Festschrift for Heinrich Beck . De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 1994, ISBN 978-3-11-179313-9 , p. 697.
  • Peter Eschbach: The tribe and district of the Chattuarier, a contribution to the history of the Franconian tribes and districts on the Lower Rhine. In: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine: Yearbook of the Düsseldorf History Association. Volume 17-19, 1903, pp. 8-9 ( online ).