911

Events

April: Beginning of the Pontificate of Anastase III (end in June 913). He is elected with the assistance of Théodora known as '' Old the '' (woman of the senator Théophylacte) and of his daughter Marozie.

Ethelfleda, girl of Alfred Large the, control surface the Mercie (fine in 918).
Edouard Old the establishes between 911 and 916 a line of fortresses to protect itself from the Danes: Hertford, Witham, Buckingham, Bedford, Maldon…

July: The Viking S go up the the Eure, besiege Chartres and are pushed back by the Gouteaume bishop and a formed coalition of Robert, count de Chartres, brother of the king Eudes, Richard, prince of Burgundy and Ebles Manzer, count of Poitiers; the Francs make undergo a terribe demolished in front of Chartres with the Danish invaders, led by Rollon, who will leave on the battle field more than 6.000 dead.
July 11th: The Country of Caux and Rouen are yielded to the Norman chief Rollon with the Traité Saint-Clearly-on-Epte (Duchy of Rouen, in the east of the Epte) by the king de France Charles III. Charles the Simple one creates thus a buffer state between his kingdom and Brittany. The raids devastators decrease on the continent. The Viking S concentrate their efforts in Great Britain and Ireland.

the Norman State that Rollon founds accepts Christianity. The archbishop of Rouen can reinstate his cathedral, the monks of Saint-Ouen take again possession of their convent. Resistance to Christianity remains strong in the extreme west of the duchy, zone where the Scandinavian settlement is densest.
Rollon is presented like a Dane by the first historiographers of the Normandy, like Dudon of Saint-Quentin. Snorri Sturluson sees in Rollon a Norwegian, wire of Rögnvaldr, the jarl of Möre, and identifies it in Ganga-Hrófr, character almost legendary outlaw to have made some misdeeds in Norway with the return of a raid in the Eastern European countries. It would have taken the sea towards the Hébrides before going in France to conquer the Normandy. The men of Rollon are however mainly of the Danes, of which some, those established between Bayeux and the Orne, would have resided long enough in the North-East of the England, as their vocabulary as regards agriculture attests it. Others come from Scotland or Ireland and are undoubtedly Norwegians or warriors having operated under Norwegian command. The colonists take along women with them little and take their wives in the local population, which accelerates their assimilation. Toponymy as certain words of vocabulary of navigation attests of their presence.

7 - November 10th: Beginning of the reign of Conrad Ier de Germanie on the Eastern Francie.

With died of Louis the Child, the Carolingian dynasty dies out in Germany. The Large ones assume the right to elect its successor. Conrad Ier, duke of Franconie elected king de Germanie, fight against the duke of Bavaria and the duke of Saxony Henri Ier the Bird-catcher.
Charles Simple the proclaims legitimate heir to the empire and is recognized by the aristocracy lotharingienne. He marries a Lorraine princess but takes to advise the Lorraine count Hegenon, which causes the hostility of Large.

the treaty of 907 between the Russians and Constantinople is supplemented by the obligations which Russian owe with the emperor. They sign a non-aggression pact. The Byzantines support the importation of slaves brought by the Russians by granting a reduction by half of the kommerkion (tax of 10% on export, the importation and the circulation of goods) by an undervaluation of 50%. These slaves are used on the spot or re-exported in the Muslim world.

Al Djunayd, mystic been enough. He wants to arrive at the complete examination of ego, the extinction of the man as a God and pushes to the extreme the physical and moral asceticism.
Al-Hâdi Yahya Ibn Al-Hussein, creator of Imamat Zaydite in the north of the Yemen.

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