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Neustria
Origins
Neustria, the new western land, took shape after the division of 561, when Chilperic I received Soissons and the lands between the Loire and the Scheldt. It later included Paris, Rouen and Tours.
Rule and society
Chilperic and his queen Fredegund waged a bitter feud with Austrasia's Sigebert I and Brunhild. Their son Chlothar II reunited the Frankish kingdoms in 613. Neustria had a strongly Gallo-Roman population and rich abbeys such as Saint-Denis, and in the 7th century its mayor Ebroin dominated politics.
Decline and legacy
The Austrasian Pippin of Herstal defeated the Neustrians at Tertry in 687, and Charles Martel finally crushed the Neustrian mayor Ragenfrid in 717 to 719. After 751 Neustria became a region of the Carolingian realm, and the name was later applied to the land between the Seine and the Loire.
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- Neustria was part of Kingdom of the Franks561 CE – 751 CE
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