Council of Trosly

In 909, in the climate of consecutive disorder to the invasions of the Viking S in most of the territories of old the Carolingian Empire, takes place a Concile with Trosly, close to Coucy-the-Castle.

Indeed, since tens of years, the Viking S, with their Drakkar S flat-bottomed, went up along the rivers and plundered the majority of the Monastère S of which, inter alia the Abbaye of Fleury (which took later the name of Saint the Benoit-on-Loire), and the Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Moissac. They obliged the monks to flee and carry with them the Relique S of the Saint S.

In addition to the depredations made by the invader, this Concile notes the dissolute moral of the Moine S. It decides creation of the Ordre of Cluny, with a rule borrowed from holy Benoît (Règle of saint Benoît).

With in the chair Herve, the archbishop of Rheims, the bishop S joined together at the time it council propose to grant a territory the Vikings. This was done officially in 911, with the signature of the Traité Saint-Clearly-on-Epte by Charles III.

The territory will take the name of Normandy. The Vikings were indeed called the Normands (“men of North”, the Latin “Northmannii” in ) by the inhabitants of the Carolingian Empire which was attacked.

The first Duke of Normandy, Rollon, was baptized in 912. The Normands took a long time at to perceive the significance of this Sacrement: appreciating water, they claimed several times the Baptême…

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