9세기 카롤루스 왕들의 형제애(fraternitas)

Abstract

In the 9th century, there were keen competitions and political strifes among grandsons of Carolus Magnus, father of Europe, what we called, who has accomplished the frame of Frankish kingdom. Unfortunately, the political union based on ‘caritas’ and ‘fraternitas’, proposed by Ludovicus Pius, successor of Carolus Magnus, has not worked because his sons could not accept the political proposal of their father. Finally, their deep-rooted disputes met the end with the Oath of Strasbourg 842 and the Treaty of Verdun 843.
 In this way, it was ‘fraternitas’ that emerged as carolus governing principle to unit sons of Ludovicus Pius. Giving the continuity and the legitimacy of carolus royal family, it said that fraternitas was not only starting point to provide the ruling principle of Frankish kingdom but also resolve the political conflicts of carolus kings. As an observer, for the sake of his mother, Berthe, Nithardus wrote the political disputes and the military clash from Ludovicus Pius to his sons through Historiae. This historian proposed fraternitas as the carolus ruling ideology to carolus kings, his maternal cousins in his Historiae. In this article, it aims to analyze the fraternitas, carolus ruling ideology leading rough political and military disputes in 9th century.