VENABLES CAROLINGIAN

It was with Pépin le Bref (or Pépin III) that the Carolingian era began. The advent of Charlemagne on the throne for a few decades will give new impetus to the Frankish kingdom. He will reconstitute a political empire on the foundations of the Roman Empire by creating around 300 counties. The religious reform will lead to the foundation of abbeys which will become important cultural centers. He instituted a new office in 789 and renewed in 802: the Missi Dominici (envoys of the Master). Most often a layman and a religious. They inspect and control management, oversee the application of the king's cartularies by the counts set up by Charlemagne. These counts administer justice and levy taxes. They are not owners and are revocable at any time.

 

In 843 the Treaty of Verdun divides Charlemagne's empire into three, then into two kingdoms giving birth to a Francia occidentalis. This treaty will cause various Carolingian political crises and face new sporadic invasions of Hungarian and Arab peoples and suffer for nearly two centuries the incursions of the Scandinavian "Northmens". A hierarchical system of vassalic loyalty between the king and his agents was set up in exchange for lands and offices until the middle of the 9th century. As a result, to protect themselves the high aristocracy of the kingdom will be called upon to lead large territorial units by creating principalities to which the commands granted by the king are attached. Powerful families will thus manage to constitute themselves honors who will serve their own interests, it is the base of the feudal society which is set up.

 

Pagus Madriacensis is articulated between the valley of the Seine and that of the Eure. The first counts of Madrie (Comes Madriacensis) left little trace of their passage in the country of Madrie. These counts are appointed by the king and in charge of the management of an ill-defined territorial space and under the control of the Missi Dominici. The first city was Witram comte du Vexin, one of Charles Martel's loyalists.He initially administered the region of Vexin, north of the Seine, between Oise and Andelle, then Pincerais with the center of Poissy, to the south from the Seine the pagi Madriacensis between the Seine, the Mauldre and the Eure. The texts cite in turn different counts: Romuald (Rumaldus Madriancens comes), died in 754. Mention is made of a Childebrand Ier Germain brother of Charles-Martel and son of Pépin le Gros. From the Nibelungides family: Nebelong 1st (750 + after 805). Nebelong II, appears to have taken on the Pagus Madriacensis. Thibert count of Madrie between 802 / 822. These counts will not leave any historical traces of their passage in the country of Madrie and we find them in the south of the Loire and in Burgundy with the title of Missi Dominici with political, judicial offices or military more attractive and much more remunerative.

 

The illustrious Robert le Fort duke of the Franks took possession from 822 of the country of Madrie. Charles the Simple creates a "march" of Oise and Vexin and Pagus Madriacensis. He entrusted the command to Herbert I of Vermandois. This one is related to the Pippinides by its father and to the Nibelungides by its mother. King Charles III "the Simple" or the new king Robert 1st grants the whole region of Vernon and a large part of the pagi Madriacensis to Rollo to reward him for the good guard of the kingdom. Part of Pagus Madriacensis is under Norman influence, the other part which includes the seigneury of Longueville near Saint Pierre d'Autils and the seigneury of Ailly remains under the influence of Herbert II de Vermandois, son of the first. It is at this moment in the history of nascent feudalism that four characters appear: Leutgarde de Vermandois, Hugues de Beauvais, Héloïse de Pithiviers and Roger Bishop of Beauvais who will have a role in the ancestry of Gilbert de Venables.

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