Neustria
Kingdom of Neustria Neustria, Neustrasia | |||||||||
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| 486–751 | |||||||||
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| Status | Part of Kingdom of the Franks | ||||||||
| Capital | Soissons | ||||||||
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| Religion | Christianity | ||||||||
| Demonym | Neustrian | ||||||||
| Government | Feudal hereditary monarchy | ||||||||
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• 486–c.509 | Clovis I (first) | ||||||||
• 743–751 | Childeric III (last) | ||||||||
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• 639–641 | Aega (first) | ||||||||
• 741–751 | Pepin III (last) | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early Middle Ages | ||||||||
| 486 | |||||||||
• Pepin the Short takes the throne | 751 | ||||||||
| Currency | Denier | ||||||||
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| Today part of | France | ||||||||
Neustria was the western part of the Kingdom of the Franks during the Early Middle Ages, in contrast to the eastern Frankish sub-kingdom, Austrasia. It initially included land between the Loire and the Silva Carbonaria, in the north of present-day France, with Paris, Orléans, Tours, Soissons as its main cities.
The same term later referred to a smaller region between the Seine and the Loire rivers known as the regnum Neustriae, a constituent subkingdom of the Carolingian Empire and then West Francia. The Carolingian kings also created a March of Neustria which was a frontier duchy against the Bretons and Vikings that lasted until the Capetian monarchy in the late 10th century, when the term was eclipsed as a European political or geographical term.