Varities of Viking Impact - Seine
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Continuous Viking activity 856 to 866 on the Seine then untroubled until 885 – 5 years of plundering surrounding tributaries.

Charles the Bald – 840 – 77 Seine basin heartland of his realm, first half of reign only sporadic resistance as too busy fighting internal struggles.

Early 860s: applied himself seriously to defending his paradise, co-ordinated strategy tribute payments, hire fees for Viking contigenets, foritifed bridges – near Pitres 662 – 6 – protected Sine basin effectively after 866 – before that prevented incursion up River Oise where two of his main palaces exists. New phase of Viking attacks in 885 with Charles the Simple

Why resumption? West Frankish Carolingians run of dynastic bad luck, military ineptitutde of Eat Frankish ruler Charles the Fat ruled united empire 884 to 887.

Other Notes in this Category

1. After Charles the Bald
2. Aquitaine
3. Caroligians - Vikings and Frankish Empire
4. Charlemagne and the Imperial Coronation of 800
5. Crisis 829 – 30
6. Ecclesia Francorum
7. Evaluation of Charles the Bald in relation to his predecessors
8. Frankish Gaul to 814 - Paul Fourace
9. Frankish Kingdoms 814 – 898 – The West
10. Germany In The Early Middle Ages – Reuter
11. Judith Herrin – Carolingian Innovation From The Formation Of Christendom
12. Lateran Synod 769
13. Populus Francorum
14. Regnum and Regna
15. Scandinavians and Others
16. The Emergence Of The East Franksih Kingdom 800 – 43
17. The end of Carolingian Expansion - Timothy Reuter
18. Varities of Viking Impact - Seine

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