[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":24},["ShallowReactive",2],{"zoom:p4ch15z3:en":3},{"period":4,"chapter":14,"zoom":17},{"id":5,"title":6,"titleEn":6,"titleEs":7,"range":8,"rangeEn":8,"rangeEs":8,"cover":9},"p4","Early Middle Ages","Alta Edad Media","476 → 987",{"fileName":10,"filePageUrl":11,"imageUrl":12,"sourceLabel":13},"François Louis Dejuinne 08265 baptême de CLovis.JPG","https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fran%C3%A7ois%20Louis%20Dejuinne%2008265%20bapt%C3%AAme%20de%20CLovis.JPG","/assets/p4-haut-moyen-age-cover.png","Wikimedia Commons",{"id":15,"title":16},"p4ch15","Louis the Stammerer: A Short Reign, a Fragile Kingdom (877–879)",{"id":18,"title":19,"chapterId":15,"html":20,"hasEn":21,"isFallback":22,"seoDescription":23},"p4ch15z3","879: Boso and the Birth of a Kingdom in Provence","\u003Cp>In \u003Cstrong>879\u003C/strong>, the proclamation of \u003Cstrong>Boso of Provence\u003C/strong> as king represented a major political rupture in post-Carolingian dynamics. The event showed that regional aristocratic coalitions could produce kingship outside the strict Carolingian dynastic line.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>Political context\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>After the death of \u003Cstrong>Louis the Stammerer\u003C/strong>, western succession entered a fragile phase. Competing lineages, divergent regional interests, and military insecurity weakened central coherence.\u003C/p>\n\u003Cp>In this context, aristocratic power was increasingly territorial. Royal legitimacy still mattered, but it was now mediated by local assemblies, episcopal networks, and regional military capacity.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>Boso’s accession\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>Boso, already a high-ranking aristocrat linked to Carolingian courts, was elevated as \u003Cstrong>king in Provence\u003C/strong> by a southern coalition. The move was politically significant for two reasons:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>it bypassed direct Carolingian hereditary succession;\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>it formalized the capacity of regional elites to create autonomous political frameworks.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Ch2>Immediate consequences\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>West Francia did not collapse overnight, but the precedent mattered:\u003C/p>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>regional centers gained confidence in autonomous rule;\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>loyalties became more territorial and negotiated;\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>the Carolingian model of unified dynastic kingship weakened further.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n\u003Cp>Provence became a laboratory for post-imperial political recomposition, later linked to Burgundian and trans-regional realignments.\u003C/p>\n\u003Ch2>Historiographical note\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cp>The episode is often read as either a “dynastic accident” or an early sign of durable political pluralization. Most modern interpretations emphasize structural causes: aristocratic regionalization, military constraints, and the erosion of imperial cohesion.\u003C/p>\n\u003Chr>\n\u003Ch2>Key points\u003C/h2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>Boso’s election in 879 challenged dynastic exclusivity in kingship.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>Regional aristocratic coalitions became decisive political engines.\u003C/li>\n\u003Cli>The event accelerated late ninth-century fragmentation of the Carolingian world.\u003C/li>\n\u003C/ul>\n",true,false,"In 879 , the proclamation of Boso of Provence as king represented a major political rupture in post-Carolingian dynamics. The event showed that regional",1778543121266]